>> when they carried diana's casket in, and i could see it from where i was sitting, i actually did feel physical pain. i really felt as if my heart was breaking . >> i stand before you today the representative of a family in grief in a country in mourning before a world in shock. we're all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to diana but rather in our need to do so. diana was the very essence of
respects to the late senator, is the fact that he has the representation of members of the military of all the branches of the military carrying his casket in, is that what is done for all late members of the house and senate when they go through this and their bodies come in and lie in repose? or is this something special for lautenberg because he was a veteran of world war ii? >> this is something that is done when they choose -- the family chooses, to have the senator lie in repose on the senate floor. this is a ceremony that kind of kicks in when that happens. we saw virtually the same thing happen almost exactly three years ago when senator robert c. byrd died when he was serving at the time. >> dana, i'm going to rudely interrupt you for one second because the new senator from new jersey just announced he was appointed, he's speaking right now. we're going to go so we can hear from him for the first time. oh, never mind. he stepped away.