Tim Russert

Statement

TIM RUSSERT

‘I'm sure I speak for all elected officials when I say he always asked the question we hoped he wouldn't.'

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Friday regarding the passing of Tim Russert:

"Elaine and I are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Tim Russert. He was regarded as perhaps the toughest, most fair-minded, and intellectually rigorous interviewer of our day. And I'm sure I speak for all elected officials when I say he always asked the question we hoped he wouldn't. Yet for all his achievements, Tim Russert always remained tethered to his middle-class upbringing and the good and decent people who made him who he was. But he will be remembered by many more Americans who knew him as a proud son of Buffalo, New York.

"We send our condolences to his wife Maureen, their son Luke, and the entire Russert family on this sad and sudden loss."

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