Biden, Sen. Clinton among those weighing R.I. funeral trip
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Vice President-elect Joseph Biden, a long-time friend of former Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell, was considering attending Pell's funeral this coming Monday, according to former Pell staffer Jay Ghazal, as was New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, nominated to be the nation's new secretary of state. A planeload of Washington dignitaries, including a delegation of U.S. senators, are expected to fly into Rhode Island Monday for the funeral of Pell, who died yesterday at age 90. Former staffers of Pell, who represented Rhode Island for four decades before his retirement in 1997, were working today with representatives of Trinity Episcopal Church and Salve Regina University, both in Newport, on the logistics of Monday's 10 a.m. service and the following reception at the school's Pell Center. Ghazal, who worked for Pell between 1985 and 1997, said all 100 U.S. senators had been invited to the funeral. Confirmation hearings in Washington on some nominees to President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet are expected to begin next week and may play a role on who attends the funeral, said Ghazal. At historic Trinity Episcopal Church, built in downtown Newport in 1726 and with a current capacity for 600, officials were preparing seating for the anticipated overflow crowd at the church's adjacent Carr Rice House. Large television screens and audio equipment would likely be brought in as well, church officials said. Both the funeral and the reception are open to the public. -- Journal staff writer Tom Mooney 
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Rhode Islanders truly have someone to be proud of.. Thanks for seeing the value of education!!!!!
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The last of the real leaders of this state!! Every leader in Rhode Island should take a page from the history of this man!! YOU ALL NEED IT!!
This is one man that will always be missed!
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