Senate Proceeding on Sep 10th, 2009 :: 0:38:25 to 0:43:35
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Jeff Bingaman: fight that still comes. mr. president, i yield the

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Speech By: Jeff Bingaman

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Jeff Bingaman: floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new mexico. a senator: mr. president, first, let me thank my colleague from massachusetts for his eloquent statement, which i've had the privilege to hear. mr. bingaman: let me make what

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Jeff Bingaman: short statement myself about my friend and colleague, ted kennedy. i came to the senate i of 1983, and my first real opportunity to work with ted came in the armed services committee at the beginning of that service. alth

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Jeff Bingaman: the senate for 20 years, he had chosen that year to go on to armed services committee, and since we were both going on that -- that year in 1983, considered the two freshmen committee members. ted and i were able to work together on the armed services

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Jeff Bingaman: committee for many years. he has been described as a visionary leader, a great orator, the keeper of the faith for the l democratidemocratic party and all of those descriptions are, of course, true. but the ted kennedy that i came to know and that i had the great

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Jeff Bingaman: opportunity to work with, i knew as a passionate, committed advocate, and as the workhorse of the senate. frankly, ted kennedy set a high standard for himself in the effort that he made on each and every issue that came up for debate. he set a high standard for the homework that he did in

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Jeff Bingaman: preparation for that debate. all of us who served with him found ourselves trying to meet a similar standard. in effect, he had the -- the the result was he raised the level of performance for those of us who served with him by the ample that he set. in addition to serving with ted

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Jeff Bingaman: kennedy on the armed services committee for many years, in may of 1990, following the death of senator motsinaga, i was

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Jeff Bingaman: assigned to the committee. ted was committee. the volume of useful legislation that he was able to move forward through the committee was truly impressive a major k the way that he found to underscore for all importance of what the committee was working on.

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Jeff Bingaman: it's chairman he rightly saw it as his job to put together the agenda a the priorities for the committee's work. but before doing that, he would sit down with the rest of us er dinner at our house to get our views on what those priorities needed to be. the serious approach that he

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Jeff Bingaman: took to the committee's work inspired those of us who served there to elevate the importance of that well. during here in the senate each of us gets the opportunity to interact with many colleagues, to form judgments about those

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Jeff Bingaman: colleagues, and during my 27 years, i've served with many capable servants who deserve recognition and praise. but it's clear to me that none of passion or commitmentor accomplishing the work that we have been sent here to do.

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Jeff Bingaman: patrick hirshburg wrote a short piece in "the new yorker" last week that captures well the ted kennedy that i was privileged to know and serve with. mr. hirschburg wrote -- quote -- "the second half of his 47-year senatorial career was a wonder

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Jeff Bingaman: of focused, patient, unwavering service to practical liberalism that improved the lives of the poor, the old, the disabled, children, the uninsured, t undocumented, the medley or he'd -- medically or educationally disadvantaged."

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Jeff Bingaman: that focused, unwavering service is a good description of the ted