A memo­ri­al ser­vice held in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., paid trib­ute to Rud­man, a Re­pub­li­can from New Hamp­shire who au­thored a bill in 1985 that in­clud­ed au­to­mat­ic spend­ing cuts. He died in Novem­ber at the age of 82. NBC’s Bri­an Williams re­ports.