NEW : Vice President Joe Biden praises `` my friend , '' plans to attend funeral Tuesday . The vice president will be in the city for a memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Tuesday. He represented Pennsylvania in the Senate longer than anyone else . Sestak , who went on to lose the race to Toomey , praised Specter via Twitter as `` a warrior of inestimable public service . '' He was long one of the most prominent Jewish-American politicians .
NEW : Vice President Joe Biden praises `` my friend , '' plans to attend funeral Tuesday . The vice president will be in the city for a memorial service at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Tuesday. He represented Pennsylvania in the Senate longer than anyone else . He was long one of the most prominent Jewish-American politicians .