Statement on the Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy

Washington, D.C., August 26th – Congressman Jim Moran, Virginia Democrat, issued the following statement on the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy.

“Ted Kennedy’s legacy will be the legislation he committed his life to enacting: equal access to quality public education and health care and basic human services. He took America’s principles to heart, that we are all created equal and all entitled to the fruits of this land and the rewards of our economy. He believed in the American peoples’ ability to better themselves and to provide for the next generation.

“Ted was born into a life of privilege, but he devoted his days on this Earth to bettering the lives of those less fortunate.  He was absolutely dedicated to making the American government work for all its people. We would be a lesser country without Ted Kennedy’s lifetime of leadership.”

“The very bill that came out of Senator Kennedy’s HELP Committee two months ago would ensure affordable, quality health care for every American. The most fitting way to memorialize Ted Kennedy is to enact this comprehensive health care reform.”

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