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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2015 - 2016
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | June 3, 2015 05:13 PM |
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| From: | Representative Madeleine Dean |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Condolence Resolution for the Honorable Beau Biden |
| In the near future, I will introduce a resolution expressing condolences upon the passing of Beau Biden, eldest son of Vice-President Joe Biden, and honoring Beau’s life and service to his country. On Saturday, May 30th, Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III passed away due to brain cancer. He was 46. Beau Biden was a former two-term Attorney General for the state of Delaware, and leaves behind a legacy of compassion and advocacy for children. While in office, Beau established a child predator task force, fought against bullying, and created a family division to help children. Biden took aggressive tactics to clamp down on child sex crimes perpetrators. Vice President Biden, said of his son Beau that he “fought for the powerless and made it his mission to protect children from abuse.” A captain in the Delaware Army National Guard, Beau Biden was deployed to Iraq for a year in 2008, serving as a Judge Advocate officer with the 261st Signal Brigade. Beau Biden was inspirational to those who knew him. Vice-President Joe Biden issued this statement on the passing of his eldest son: “His absolute honor made him a role model for our family. Beau embodied my father’s saying that a parent knows success when his child turns out better than he did.” President Obama memorialized Beau saying: "Like his dad, Beau was a good, big-hearted, devoutly Catholic and deeply faithful man, who made a difference in the lives of all he touched –and he lives on in their hearts. But for all that Beau Biden achieved, nothing made him prouder; nothing made him happier; nothing claimed a fuller focus of his love and devotion than his family. Just like his dad.” Quoting the poet Yeats, the President said, “Beau Biden believed the best of us all. For him, and for his family, we swing our lanterns higher." The Biden family has suffered great tragedy, as Beau, at the age of 3, along with his brother Hunter, were seriously injured in 1972 when a tractor-trailer broadsided the family vehicle, killing his mother and infant sister. Beau is survived by his wife Hallie and children Natalie and Hunter. Please join me in expressing condolences upon the passing of Beau Biden, and honoring Beau’s life and service to his country. |
Introduced as HR384