Edward Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedywas a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and was the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history, having served there for almost 47 years. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family for many years, he was the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy; the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 February 1932
CountryUnited States of America
You know it's kind of interesting, our Republican friends have spent $80 million to distort, misrepresent and basically lie about John Kerry's record, ... That's because they haven't got a record of their own.
Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.
You're going to find out that some of the poorest of the poor that are receiving prescription drugs under Medicaid are now going to have to pay more -- up to 6 million are going to have to pay more for it.
You can see the television coverage millions of Americans have seen over the past days, and you can read the stories, the heartbreaking stories and the stories of courage that we've all read in the last few days, ... We can even hear from some of the evacuees, which my wife Vicky and I have listened to up in Cape Cod, Mass., where we have 290 evacuees. But nothing - nothing, nothing, nothing - compares with seeing for ourselves the devastation that we have seen for the last few hours and we'll continue to see.
What the American people have seen is this incredible disparity in which those people who had cars and money got out, and those people who were impoverished died,
With Justice O'Connor committing to stay until her replacement is named, we can and should remain focused first on protecting our citizens who need help the most,
We indicated to each and all of them that we stand with them; we want to learn more from them, ... Today isn't just one meeting but is going to be a continuum, until we are able to see justice and those who were a part of this cruel and murderous act are brought to justice.
The victims of Katrina have lost everything, and now President Bush says it is OK for them to lose their fair wages, too.
Another important part of this bill will be the periodic report it requires on the progress our forces are making in Iraq,
Rather than spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on producing Republican propaganda, the administration should return those funds and live up to the promises they made to America's students and teachers.
Rather than selecting a nominee for the good of the nation and the court, President Bush has picked a nominee whom he hopes will stop the massive hemorrhaging of support on his right wing.
Our Democratic priorities clearly prevailed, and I welcome the decision by our Republican colleagues to accept them,
Even today, the administration submitted a report to Congress on troop training that again failed to set out a plan,
Continuation after this excellent summation ... would be an embarrassment to the U.S. Senate.