Senate Proceeding on Sep 4th, 2007 :: 6:08:16 to 6:14:08
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John Kerry: congratulations. mr. kerry: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator fr om massachusetts. mr. kerry: mr. president, it's my privilege to join in saying a few words abouty senior colleague

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Speech By: John Kerry

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John Kerry: from the state of massachusetts -- could we have order, mr. president? the presiding officer: the senate is not in order. the senate will come to order. we ask members to take their conversations off the

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John Kerry: floor. mr. kerry: mr. president, the special words that have been spoken about ted kennedy are obviously more than appropriate, but let me just say, if i may, that it's interesting that when you take

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John Kerry: a measure of ted kennedy's work here, which is really an unparalleled record of achievement, and you look at the public record, that public record is actually full of comparisons to the greatest senators

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John Kerry: who have ever served here in the united states senate or even some of the greatest who have served in washington. the "boston globe" wrote of our senior senator that in actual measurable impact on

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John Kerry: the lives of tens of millions of working families, the elderly, the needy needy, ted belongs in the same sentence with franklin roosevelt roosevelt. "time" magazine said that ted kennedy has amassed

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John Kerry: a titanic record of legislation affecting the lives of virtually every man man, woman, and child in the country. and in his comprehensive book just a couple of years ago, adam -- klimer wrote that ted kennedy

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John Kerry: is a lawmaker of skill and purpose rarely surpassed since 1789. he's been compared to henry clay for his skill as a legislate or and to lynde lyndon johnson for his efforts in create ing a more

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John Kerry: egalitarian, more inclusive america that leaves no one behind. 15,000 votes is a remarkable number. no one knows that more than the senator sitting in front of me here, the senator from west virginia, senator

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John Kerry: byrd, who is the only other member of that exclusive club. he knows, as we all know, that 15,000 is not just a statistic representing those votes. it represents and encapsulates countless legislative

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John Kerry: battles in the trenches, in the committee rooms, in offices, tough negotiations, thankless committee hearings, inspired ideas, setbacks, and to a great greater degree than almost any other lawmaker alive,

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John Kerry: laws that improve the lives of everyday americans. from his maiden speech in the senate demanding an end to the filibuster of the original civil rights act, there has not been a significant policy accomplish

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John Kerry: accomplishment in wish over four decades that hasn't borne his fingerprints and benefited from his slft legislative skill and leadership. his is the record of progressive politics in our era. on all of the

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John Kerry: great fights that call us to stand up and be count counted, for the minimum wage year in and year out, to robert bork and sam alito, ted kennedy it did not just hear the call, he led the charge. you

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John Kerry: can run down the list, the rights of the disabled who for far too long were left in the shadows or left to fend for themselves, ted kennedy wrote every single landmark piece of legislation that today

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John Kerry: probst discrimination -- prohibits discrimination against those with a disability, aids . aids. when a whole lot of politicians were afraid to even say the word word, ted kennedy passed a bill

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John Kerry: providing emergency relief to the 13 cities hardest hit by the aids epidemic. 300,000 yeepg 300,000 young people today have jobs every single summer because of ted kennedy, guaranteed access to health

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John Kerry: coverage for 25 million americans who move from one job to another or have a pre-existing medical condition condition, they wouldn't have gotten that coverage without ted kennedy. without ted kennedy,

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John Kerry: there wouldn't have been a bilingual education in the united states for the five million students who today have a brighter future because they're learning engsh in our schools. without ted kennedy, we wouldn't

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John Kerry: have lowered the vote ing age to 18 and ended the hypocrisy that 18-year-olds were old enough to die for this country in vietnam, but not old enough to vote for the leadership. and without ted kennedy,

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John Kerry: we wouldn't be the world's leader in cancer research and prevention. without ted kennedy, mr. president, we wouldn't have had title 9, which opened the doors of competition and opportunity to a generation

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John Kerry: of women athletes all across our country. the list goes on, and i'm not going to go on through the whole list. but ever since he entered this body at the age of 30, he has stood up again and again

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John Kerry: to be counted and supported his beliefs. and he stoodp to be counted, he stood up to lead again and again, and he has already secured his place as one of the great legislate ors in the history of our

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John Kerry: country. and then after casting that 15,000th vote before we went away, mr. president, he celebrate ed by doing the same thing that made him a legend in the first place, he rolled up his sleeves and

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John Kerry: he went back to work. and that's why a lot of us here look forward to serve ing these next years with him and watch as he continues to help to write the history of the senate and the history of our

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John Kerry: progressive politics and the history of our country. mr. durbin: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: mr. president, i'm happy to join in this chorus of praise

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Richard Durbin: on the seen senator from massachusetts on the 15,000th vote that he has cast, an historic milestone reached in this body, a milestone reached by only two members, and the other who serves with great

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Speech By: Richard Durbin