Senate Proceeding on Sep 10th, 2009 :: 2:44:40 to 2:49:40
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Jeff Sessions: led. he always acted. he always inspires." god bless you the united states of america. the presiding officer: the senator from mr. sessions: mr. president, i would like to join with my colleagues. i see quite a number here on the

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Speech By: Jeff Sessions

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Jeff Sessions: floor now to pay tribute to ted kennedy. he was a truly remarkable force in the united states senate. a champion of liberalism, perhaps the nation's leading champion of liberalism. he believed that government could s and it ought to do more to serve

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Jeff Sessions: people. on that we sometimes disagre. but he believed it with a sincerity and he battled for it with consistency that is really remarkable. he constantly sought to utilize the ability of government to do

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Jeff Sessions: good for american people. that's an admiral thing. he also was a champion of civil rights. he was a force during the civil rights movement. and his activities, his personal leadership truly made a difference in making this a better country without his leadership things

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Jeff Sessions: would have been much more i have a vivid memory of mr. president, presiding as i did when i first came to the senate, a duty given to the younger, newer members. in the night, ted kennedy, alone on the floor, roaring away for

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Jeff Sessions: the values he believed in was something to behold in my view. i saw nothing l maybe no other members. he served so sena and i learned today from our chairman on the judiciary committee, senator leahy, that he served on the senate judiciary committee more than

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Jeff Sessions: any other senator in history. but even as his years went by and many years in the senate he did not lose the drive, the will, the energy, the commi to give himself for the values he believed in. as i told one reporter after his death, i would just hope to be somewhat as effective in

2:47:08 to 2:47:29( Edit History Discussion )

Jeff Sessions: promoting the values i believe in as he has been in promoting those values. and if we disagreed as sometimes we certainly did people continued to admire him, i think, to a there was no hard feelings. you would battle away and then afterwards it would be a

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Jeff Sessions: respectful relationship between senators. i think that's pretty unusual in something -- and something that is worthy of commenting on. he talked to me about being a cosponsor and his prime cosponsor on a bill. he said he watched to work with me on something important and it was a bill we commonly referred

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Jeff Sessions: to as the prison rape bill. there was a lot of concern that in prisons people who a arrested were subjected to sexual abuse. that in my view is not acceptable. i know the presiding officer, a prosecutor, knows people deserve to do their time in jail but

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Jeff Sessions: they're -- they should never be subjected to those kind of abuses. so we passed a comprehensive bill. i was proud of it and proud to be with him at the signing ceremony. i also talked to him and we met and talked at some length about a major piece of legislation to increase s

2:48:37 to 2:48:57( Edit History Discussion )

Jeff Sessions: savings for the average working american whose -- who had not been able to share in the goght in the growth of wealth that blessed. savings add that time had fallen below zero, actually, 1%

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Jeff Sessions: negative use of people's savings, and now we are at 5% or 6% savings rate after this turmoil we have had economically. bu should go away. maybe it lost a little ste in the fact that we have seen a

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Jeff Sessions: resurgence of savings today but i was very impressed with his commitment to it. the work of his fine staff and his personal knowledge of the issues. i see and i'll just join with them i expressing my sincere sympathy to vicky and the entire family for their great loss. the senate has lost a great