Edward Kennedy News

Washington, D.C. - Food processors both domestically and abroad would face greater scrutiny by regulators under legislation advanced in the Senate.

U.S. scientists say they've developed the world's first brain cancer treatment that involves directly spraying a chemotherapy agent onto the tumor.

Democrat Stephen Pagliuca said Thursday the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy would side with him and not political rivals Martha Coakley and Michael Capuano in the nation's health care debate.

Conflicts over Rep. Bart Stupak's antiabortion amendment to the House health reform bill have helped put the issue of abortion rights at "center stage" in Massachusetts' special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight unveiled the Senate version of health care reform legislation as an amendment to H.R. 3590, and named it the " Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act " . According to the CBO score , the bill would spend $849 billion over 10 years to insure 31 million Americans who currently lack coverage, and would ...

Victoria Kennedy , widow of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, speaks with Senator Robert Byrd , D-WVA, after the hearse bearing the remains of Senator Kennedy arrived at the US Capitol on Aug.

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The Senate is a resolutely superlative place, so it was resolved that the august body on Wednesday will open its session by saluting Sen.

Afghanistan: Troop morale is plummeting as they wait - and wait - for a war policy.

Denver Democrats, gathered for their first annual Edward M. Kennedy dinner last weekend, were witness to the announcement that the long-awaited historic - and contentious - health care reform bill championed by the late U.S. Senator from Massachusetts had narrowly passed the House of Representatives, 220-215. The news, delivered by dinner guest ...

Two of the leading Democratic candidates to replace Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, who died of brain cancer in August , are battling over who is better suited to wear his mantle.

Lawdy, look at the laws! As a colony, Massachusetts was alone in forbidding clergy from performing marriages.

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., endorses Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., right, in his bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., in Boston, Friday morning, Nov.

But that hardly squares with the news that 93 percent of Democratic voters who were surveyed in a new Suffolk University poll could not even name the date of the primary for the special election to fill the late Sen.

Democrat Alan Khazei is trying to import a moderator for a debate between the candidates vying to succeed the late Sen.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance Article Date: 12 Nov 2009 - 3:00 PST Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley -- one of four candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for the state's U.S. Senate seat -- said she opposes the House health care reform bill because of restrictions on federal ...

The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul.

The Obama administration strongly endorsed Senator Jeff Merkley's gay protections bill at its first hearing on Capitol Hill.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate race came out swinging Tuesday in what may be the biggest controversy in the race to date: abortion.