Ranking Member's Press

Washington, DC: Today Senator Kennedy and Senator Enzi put before the HELP committee the Defined Benefit Security Act - a bipartisan measure to bring retirement security to millions of Americans. The bill requires companies to protect their pensions with rules that are fair and predictable and includes needed changes to help avoid the danger of...

I’m deeply disappointed that President Bush has decided to suspend vital wage protections in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Haven’t these workers and their families suffered enough? We are providing tens of billions of dollars in relief, and we should be sure that it goes toward decent wages for workers as they rebuild the...

Washington, D.C.—Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Mike Enzi held a hearing of the Senate Help committee with relief organizations working to provide support to Hurricane Katrina victims. Outside witnesses, including the Dr. Diane Roussel, the Superintendent of Jefferson Parish Public Schools in New Orleans, participated to help...

SENATOR KENNEDY JOINS FORCES WITH RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS FOR HURRICANE KATRINA VICTIMSWashington, D.C.—Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy met with relief organizations working to provide support to Hurricane Katrina victims. The participants, among whom Michael Casserly, Executive Director, Council of Great City Schools, Leslie Baskerville,...

WHO: SENATOR KENNEDY SENATOR ENZIHurricane Katrina Relief OrganizationsWHAT: Press availability following Senator Kennedy’s meeting with to enhance response efforts and to examine urgently needed changes to national response systemsWHERE: Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 430WHEN: TODAY, Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 12:15 PM

Washington, D.C. – Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Senator Michael Enzi will meet with representatives from over a dozen agencies that are currently providing relief to victims of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. Kennedy will take recommendations from the groups as the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, of which he is the...

Washington, D.C. – Tomorrow, Senator Edward M. Kennedy will meet with representatives from over a dozen agencies that are currently providing relief to victims of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. Kennedy will take recommendations from the groups as the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, of which he is the ranking member, considers...

Four years ago, Democrats worked with President Bush to adopt the No Child Left Behind Act, to create a new, national commitment to public education, based on two central goals: supporting the improvement of America’s schools and requiring accountability for results in learning. These are still the right goals for our schools, but the sad...