Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed
     about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve
     like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe
     that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God
     will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.

  Whereas another Graham once put it:

       Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead.
     Don't you believe a word of it. I shall be more alive than I
     am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone
     into the presence of God.

  I will miss Lindsey's friendship more than I can say. We pray for his
staff and for his family, whom he loved dearly and who loved him dearly
in return.
  But I am comforted by the knowledge that in the end, he has just
changed his address and that one day we will laugh together again.
  I yield the floor.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Illinois.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, last week, I joined several of my
colleagues from the Senate and from the House at the NATO summit in
Ankara, Turkiye. It was a historic meeting in terms of the future of
NATO and the future of Ukraine and so many other issues that relate to
that critical and important alliance.
  Last Wednesday, we had a dinner that was hosted by the U.S.
Ambassador to Turkiye, Tom Barrack. There must have been 50 or 60
people there who all shared concerns of the summit conference. Among
them were Members of Congress, Turkish leaders, and representatives of
other countries around the world who had gone to that famous summit.
  At the heart of that dinner was my colleague and friend Senator
Lindsey Graham. When I arrived that night, it was no surprise that he
had been there before me and had been working the crowd. He had been
speaking to each and every person who was there--business leaders and
political leaders from all parts of the world--about his concerns.
  Lindsey was walking them through, one at a time, his vision on how we
could end the war in Ukraine and the legislation we needed to
accomplish that, which was typical of Lindsey Graham. We all shared
that concern, but he was buzzing around that crowd like an aspiring
candidate, convincing everybody that there was a way to end this war
the right way.
  Only a few days after that dinner, my friend Lindsey Graham passed
away. It was a shock. I would like to take a moment to recognize his
lifetime of public service both in the State of South Carolina and for
our Nation.
  I served with Lindsey Graham in the Senate for more than two decades,
and during that time, I counted him as a trusted friend. I will tell
you that my friends and supporters back in Illinois many times would
just shake their heads and say: Durbin, what are you doing with
Lindsey? You shouldn't be working with him.

  They didn't know how the Senate works, and they certainly didn't know
him.
  Lindsey, for many years, was the only Republican who was willing to
cosponsor the DREAM Act, a bill that I introduced over 20 years ago and
had reintroduced in successive Congresses, which provided protection to
undocumented immigrants who had been brought to this country as
children. His support took guts. At a time when issues surrounding
immigration were becoming politically toxic, Lindsey stuck his neck out
for me and for these young people. I will never ever forget it.
  I will also never forget a meeting that Lindsey and I had with
President Trump in his first term in 2018. It was a meeting to discuss
a possible comprehensive immigration reform package. It didn't go well
at all. President Trump made what I considered to be profane comments
about some immigrants, but I won't repeat them here.
  Lindsey, while sitting next to me in the Oval Office, passionately,
vocally, and with real commitment disagreed with the President, arguing
that America is not defined by race or color but by its ideals and of
the many contributions that immigrants have made to our Nation. He said
to the President, as I sat right next to him in the Oval Office, that
he was just wrong; that these people who are immigrants make a
difference in America. It was the story of our country, and Lindsey
said it was the story of his family.
  Lindsey spoke publicly about this interaction after it occurred, and
despite the scorn that he earned from certain segments of the
Republican base, he stuck to what he believed was right.
  When I happened to become the chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee for 4 years, Lindsey Graham was my ranking Republican. He sat
right next to me in every session of that committee. We had our share
of disagreements over issues and nominees, but I knew that his word was
always good. If he told me he was going to vote for something or some
person, he did--he delivered--and we had a good working relationship
between us--no cheap shots, no stabs in the back.
  He voted in favor of 75 percent of the judicial nominations that we
considered while I was chair, and there were 235 lifetime appointments
that came out of that committee. Even though they were nominated by a
President from a different political party, he announced early on that,
if I expect Democrats to vote for Republican nominees, I have to
support Democratic nominees to show the same spirit of cooperation. And
he did. He kept his word. That was who Lindsey was. He was proud to be
a fierce Republican partisan, but he never lost sight of the need to
work across the aisle to make a difference in the lives of Americans.
  Loretta and I send our condolences to Lindsey's family and his legion
of friends in South Carolina and around the world.
  He was an extraordinary Member of the Senate. He helped to make it
work. There was never any bipartisan meeting of a gang--or however you
would characterize it--during which Lindsey wasn't within its ranks.
  I remember when John McCain and he led the Republican side of an
immigration reform effort, and I was part of that on the Democratic
side. After months--literally months--of negotiating, we brought a
package to the floor, which passed with an overwhelming bipartisan
vote, showing that we could do things like that and that we should
still be able to. For those things to occur, it is not just a matter of
having a good idea; you need good people who are willing to be
respectful of one another and to work hard to find common ground.
Lindsey was one of those people.

                       Remembering Lindsey Graham

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, my prayers and those of my family are
with Senator Graham's family, staff, and friends after his sudden,
sudden passing yesterday. We see the white roses on his desk, and we
think of Lindsey.
  Senator Graham devoted much of his life to public service--first in
the military and then in Congress, where he represented South Carolina
for more than three decades. To the very end, Senator Graham's life was
defined by public service. He was an important Member of this
institution and a crucial voice for his constituents in South Carolina.
  For all of our many and vehement disagreements, Senator Graham and I
still found ways to work together. One of the first things we did
together was travel to China. We both believed that China was
manipulating its currency, hurting American exports, hurting American
jobs, and together we hammered away at that issue.
  At first, neither the left nor the right believed us. Amazingly
enough, both the New York Times, a liberal publication, and the Wall
Street Journal, a conservative publication, said there is no such thing
as currency manipulation, but Graham and I proved to be correct, and we
took some real efforts over the next few years to stop that
manipulation and the outflow of American jobs.
  We worked together and hashed out a framework for commonsense,
comprehensive immigration reform--the so-called Gang of Eight led by
myself and Senator McCain and with Lindsey Graham as a key member. We
worked hard. We didn't agree on everything in our bipartisan
immigration proposal, but we agreed it was worth trying because doing
nothing was worse. We also found common ground in our effort to aid
Ukraine after the Russian invasion.
  I know that if Senator Graham were here in the Chamber today, he
would also join me in urging the Senate to support Ukraine and
strengthen sanctions on Russia. I urge Senator Thune in honor of
Lindsey to put the Russia sanctions bill on the floor immediately. It
will pass overwhelmingly and help our allies in Ukraine.
  Not seeing eye to eye is no reason to be blind to the way forward.
Lindsey could understand that. Every Senator ought to do the same.