FILE - In this Jan. 15, 1979, file photo, Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., center, with his wife, Rose, and others looking on, is sworn in by Vice President Walter Mondale in a re-enactment ceremony in Washington. Rose Cochran died Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at a hospice facility after a long battle with dementia, the senator's spokesman, Chris Gallegos, said. She was 73. (AP Photo/File)