He's been speaking, pontificating, sermonizing, lecturing, orating, hectoring, admonishing, and evangelizing from the Senate floor since 1973, but today Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., bid adieu to his colleagues in the Greatest Deliberative Body in the World to become the vice president.
According to the transcript, the anecdote-filled speech was interrupted 18 times by laughter. He used the word "literally" nine times. It was 5,659 words long.
Whew!
We’ll spare you the tedious details. There is more at the link below in case you’d like to suffer through it.
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