--- title: Joe Biden Given Emotional Farewell in Senate description: A week after the House easily approved the biomedical bill, senators passed it by a similarly overwhelming 94-5 margin. canonical: https://time.com/4594520/joe-biden-senate-farewell/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-07T23:07:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:11:55.431Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch the Senate Bid Farewell to Joe Biden og:description: After decades in Washington og:url: https://time.com/4594520/joe-biden-senate-farewell/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8671fe6eacaffec9/6988b1f20a4a2275ac9cc447/congress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4288 og:image:height: 2412 og:image:alt: United States Capitol Building Dome og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Senate Bid Farewell to Joe Biden twitter:description: After decades in Washington twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8671fe6eacaffec9/6988b1f20a4a2275ac9cc447/congress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch the Senate Bid Farewell to Joe Biden > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 7, 2016 11:07 PM UTC  Capitol Building, Capitol Hill, District of Columbia, Washington DC, government buildings, Congress Capitol Building, Capitol Hill, District of Columbia, Washington DC, government buildings, Congress Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 7, 2016 11:07 PM UTC Vice President Joe Biden said goodbye to the Senate on Wednesday, ending more than 40 years of service in the government once he leaves office on Jan. 20\. Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate to represent Delaware in 1972, at the age of 29\. He [unsuccessfully ran for president twice](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1835499%5F1835498%5F1835493,00.html) and joined President Barack Obama’s administration as vice president in 2008. Biden considered running in the 2016 election, but opted not to following the [death of his son Beau](http://time.com/4326174/joe-biden-best-president-2016-election/) in 2015\. He left the possibility for a 2020 campaign open, though, [telling Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night’s _The Late Show_](http://time.com/4593693/joe-biden-stephen-colbert-2020-run/) that he would “never say never” to running. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4594520/joe-biden-senate-farewell/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4594520/joe-biden-senate-farewell/"},"headline":"Watch the Senate Bid Farewell to Joe Biden","datePublished":"2016-12-07T23:07:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:11:55.431Z","description":"After decades in Washington","url":"https://time.com/4594520/joe-biden-senate-farewell/","keywords":["Congress","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8671fe6eacaffec9/6988b1f20a4a2275ac9cc447/congress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8671fe6eacaffec9/6988b1f20a4a2275ac9cc447/congress.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"United States Capitol Building Dome","caption":"United States Capitol Building Dome","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4594520/joe-biden-senate-farewell/","name":"Watch the Senate Bid Farewell to Joe Biden"}}]}] ```