WASHINGTON - "Uncle Ted" Stevens, an old-style Senate giant and the chamber’s longest-serving Republican, delivered his swan song address and yielded the floor for the final time today. He was saluted by his colleagues as a staunch friend and teacher.

"My mission in life is not completed," Stevens said in his farewell speech on the Senate floor, as perhaps a quarter of the chamber’s 100 members gathered to hear him and the gallery filled with his friends and family.