Edward Kennedy Congress Quotations

We are determined to have these issues debated in Congress this fall,

We must stop acting as if somehow this fundamental issue is just a state and local problem. It isn't. It's a national problem, and it's an outrage that Congress has been missing in action for so long.

It's disgraceful that year after year, Congress has bowed to the tobacco lobby and refused to act.

Even today, the administration submitted a report to Congress on troop training that again failed to set out a plan,

This bill has one motivation -- payback by the Bush administration and the Republican leadership of the Congress to the powerful special interest of the National Rifle Association.

It's a response to the president's very legitimate concerns, and it ought to be the basis of a sound compromise,

If Congress passes this resolution it will have destroyed in 10 hours what it took the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 10 painstaking years to create.