He was a real Senator with incredible values – even flew back to Senate from Mississippi for important Healthcare Vote when he was desperately ill. Very sad to hear the news on the passing of my friend, Senator Thad Cochran. President Donald Trump said on Twitter he was “very sad” to hear the death of “my friend” Cochran, calling him a “real senator with incredible values.” “He hired the first African-American congressional staffer to work in a Mississippi office since Reconstruction and steadily advocated for Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” the Kentucky Republican said in a statement. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Cochran “wielded great influence with abundant grace” and built a legacy that included ensuring veterans access to health care, improving educational opportunities, helping farmers share expertise, and strengthening national security, especially missile defense. “He was an American patriot, and a model of what we can be as a Senate and as a country.” “We visited farms together in Vermont - where expressed amazement at the cold seasonal temperatures - and in Mississippi, and we led Senate delegations to the Middle East, former Eastern Bloc nations, and other regions,” Leahy said in a statement. Leahy of Vermont said he and Cochran were close partners on agriculture issues and could find agreement despite being partisan counterparts on the Appropriations panel. Shelby of Alabama, the current Appropriations chairman, said in a statement that Cochran was a close personal friend and “a true hero to the people of Mississippi” who “served our nation with the utmost dignity and respect.”ĭemocratic Sen. Mikulski of Maryland, the former top Democrat on Appropriations, once described Cochran as “very much a Southern gentleman, old school on civility, a very firm fiscal conservative.”
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