Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday offered their condolences to the Biden family, one day after Beau Biden, the vice president’s son, died of brain cancer.
{mosads}”I’d just like to express my sincerest condolences to the entire Biden family,” McConnell said during his opening remarks of the Senate’s Sunday session. “The Senate offers its presiding officer and every member of his family it’s prayers and its sympathy.”
McConnell said that “it’s hard to think of anything more important” to Vice President Biden than his faith and his family.
“I hope he will find comfort in the former,” McConnell added.
Reid said that he was “saddened beyond words” to hear of Beau Biden’s death.
“Beau left us far too soon, 46 years old,” the Nevada Democrat said. “There’s no question that… Delaware’s a better place because of Beau, our country’s a better place because of Beau.”
The vice president’s office announced Beau Biden’s death late Saturday. Beau Biden, 46, had served as Delaware’s attorney general until earlier this year. He also served in the Delaware Army National Guard, and was thought to be considering a run for governor of Delaware in 2016.
Beau Biden is the second of Joe Biden’s children to die — his first wife, Neilia, and his year-old daughter Naomi died in a 1972 car accident.