By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Senate Democrats led by Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Jack Reed offered an amendment to the Tax Reconciliation bill to provide 2.92 billion dollars in federal assistance to low-income and elderly residents for energy assistance. The funding would be paid for by using windfall...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Tonight, America1s seniors and low-income residents were told that they1re being left out in the cold this winter. While Americans are facing some of the highest energy costs in decades and oil companies are raking in record profits, a measure to increase funding for energy assistance for theneediest...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC: Today the Senate passed by 97-2 the Pension Stability and Transparency Act, a bipartisan measure that would bring retirement security to millions of Americans. In the past five years 700 pension plans have gone into crisis and millions of workers have lost $8 billion in pension benefits...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC: Today the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission approved proposed changes to the form that employers use to track the race and ethnicity of their employees.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC- Today Senator Edward M. Kennedy honored Stephen Bradberry, an advocate for the poor from Louisiana, with the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. The event will celebrate the life and legacy of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy on what would be his 80th birthday. The ceremony featured Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy and historian Douglas Brinkley and speeches by Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Barack Obama.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2005
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today Senator Kennedy and Representative DeLauro joined filmmaker, Robert Greenwald, and the Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future Robert Borosage to discuss the impact of the Wal-Mart economy as detailed in a new film called WAL-MART: The High Cost of Low Price. Senator Kennedy...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2005
News Release: “The new Medicare drug plan that starts today will help some seniors, but it won’t work for many more - and I believe that America can do better for the millions of seniors struggling too make ends meet. With enrollment now starting, there’s still too much confusion and too few answers for seniors as...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2005
News Release: Once again, this Administration and its Republican allies in Congress have looked at what needs to be done to deal with a major health threat -- and decided to do the opposite. It’s unbelievable that with the threat of a life-threatening flu epidemic looming over America, the Republican Congress is denying...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy joined national religious leaders to announce the “Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign." This grassroots effort will team religious and community leaders with legislators to do right by the American worker and finally raise the minimum wage through ballot...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC: Today Senators Kennedy, Enzi, Landrieu, Dodd, and Alexander were successful in their effort to provide one-time, temporary impact aid to local school districts and private schools impacted by Katrina. The measure also cuts fees on student loans so that college is more affordable for all...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 2, 2005
News Release: “As in so many other areas, the Bush Administration gets a grade of ‘incomplete’ for its flu plan. After all the buildup and the long wait, the American people had a right to expect a comprehensive plan. But all the Administration released was a glossy brochure and a plan for a single agency, the Department of Health and Human Services - and even that was missing its most important element, the actual operational plans for responding to a pandemic epidemic.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC: Today Senators Kennedy and Enzi offered an amendment to the reconciliation bill that provides one-time, temporary impact aid to local school districts and private schools impacted by Katrina. The measure also cuts fees on student loans so that college is more affordable for all Americans. The amendment takes advantage of extra savings created by the underlying bill through cuts to banks subsidies in the student loan program.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2005
News Release: Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy attended the announcement by President Bush at the National Institute of Health where the President set forth an initial plan for preparing the United States for a pandemic flu outbreak...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement on thepassage of his flu plan in the Senate...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2005
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senators Kennedy’s amendment to address the underachievement of American students in history passed in the Senate as part of the Labor-H Appropriations bill.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2005
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senators Kennedy’s amendment to address the underachievement of American students in U.S. history and civics passed in the Senate as part of the Labor-H Appropriations bill. Earlier this year, Senators Kennedy and Alexander offered S. 860, the American History Achievement Act, ...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2005
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Edward Kennedy and Jeff Bingaman today said they are pleased that an amendment Bingaman wrote and Kennedy cosponsored boosts funding for migrant education, Hispanic Serving Institutions and other initiatives has been made part of an education spending bill that passed the Senate today.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2005
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- TODAY, Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Tom Harkin will offer an amendment to the Department of Labor and Health and Human Services appropriations bill to help ensure that the United States is prepared for a pandemic flu outbreak. Senator Kennedy joined Senator Harkin to attach an...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC: Today Senators Kennedy, Schumer, Dorgan, and Harkin joined working men and women impacted by Hurricane Katrina to discuss how the Administration’s policies have hurt those who have already lost everything. They heard firsthand from Diana Hill and Trina Daniels who were living in the lower...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2005
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy released the following statement on the newly released Wal-Mart internal memo...
