edward kennedy

There’s been an outpouring of praise for the life and legacy of Sen. Edward Kennedy from advocates of immigration reform, who call him the leading champion for immigrants’ rights, from his championing the Immigration Act of 1965, which eliminated national-origin quotas, to his tireless efforts to pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007. That [...]

Former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen today commends the Bush administration’s “well-run, highly disciplined CIA interrogation program, where clear guidelines were established and abuses or deviations from approved techniques were stopped, reported and addressed.”
I guess Thiessen didn’t read the same CIA inspector general report that so many of us have been scrutinizing in the [...]

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died late Tuesday in Hyannis Port, Mass., after a battle with brain cancer.
The Kennedy family released a statement via Kennedy’s Senate office at around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday. From Playbook:
‘Edward M. Kennedy – the husband, father, grandfather, brother and [...]

So says Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Finance Committee and outspoken opponent of the Democrats’ wishes to offer a government-backed insurance option in their health reform plans this year. Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today, Hatch said the Democrats’ plans would bankrupt the country. Asked about the odds of reaching a [...]

When Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), who head the committees charged with writing health reform legislation this year, vowed a few weeks back that they would introduce similar reform bills that could be easily melted into one, the skeptics howled.
How, observers wondered, would the two committees reach a compromise on the issue [...]

Remember just a few weeks ago when Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the upper-chamber leaders on health care reform, announced their intention ‘[to] report similar and complementary legislation that can be quickly merged into one bill for consideration on the Senate floor before the August recess?”
Good luck.
With the arrival earlier this week [...]

Just hours after President Obama reiterated his plans for overhauling the nation’s health care system to trim costs and cover the 46 million people estimated to lack insurance, the Congressional Budget Office came out with a grim analysis of one major Democratic proposal designed with the same goals in mind.
Draft health reform legislation introduced by [...]

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), suffering from brain cancer, will step down from the powerful Judiciary Committee when Congress returns to Washington in January, the Boston Globe is reporting, citing an unnamed Democratic source:
The decision had nothing to do with the health of the legendary Democratic lawmaker, who is battling an aggressive brain tumor, the source [...]