As Trump and other congressional Republicans have been silent on the Monday evening death of Dick Cheney, Sen. John Barrasso took to the Senate floor Thursday to honor the former vice president and Wyoming congressman.

Barrasso’s past with the former vice president is complex, spanning years of political history. The two longtime Wyoming politicians had a close relationship in Washington.

Cheney swore Barrasso into his U.S. Senate post in 2007.

When Cheney died Monday due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, Barrasso was among the first of his peers to memorialize the man’s legacy, appearing on Cowboy State Daily’s Morning Show With Jake before sunrise.

Barrasso showed the same candor Thursday when, speaking from the Senate floor, he lauded Cheney as a toweri

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