WASHINGTON, July 14 -- Sen. Tom Cotton issued the following press release:

Lindsey Graham was a self-made American original. Born in central South Carolina, Lindsey grew up in a room behind his parent's bar and pool hall where he worked to help the family make ends meet and earned the nickname "Stinkball" from his patrons because of his sense of humor and his irrepressible nature and his rascal streak as he called it.

I saw that in my first experience with Lindsey Graham. I traveled with him and Senator McCain to the Munich Security Conference in 2013 as a brand-new congressman. That evening as I was meeting some of the other Senators on the delegation, Senator Ayotte, Senator Corker, Lindsey came up to me and slapped me on the back and a...