WASHINGTON, DC – May 20, 2008 – "Like so many across the country and across Massachusetts, my thoughts and prayers are with Ted, Vicki, my colleague Patrick, and the Kennedy family.  Ted’s tireless and legendary devotion to the causes of equal opportunity and health care for all Americans has benefited countless lives.  His decades long commitment to this institution and to this country has earned him the respect, admiration, and affection among his colleagues on both sides of the aisle and among the people of Massachusetts for generations, and I look forward to seeing him back in the Congress very soon."

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