It never fails to amaze me how many average Americans who vote Republican and hate liberals would be totally screwed if it were not for people like Ted Kennedy and things they take for granted.They are like the people who call health care for all a socialist un-American plot but who warn politicians not to touch their Medicare. They are like the young TV station employee I read about today who, upon looking at Walter Cronkite's coverage of the JFK assassination, asked, "Where was the 'live' bug?"
Here is a thumbnail of his legislative career.
- Voting Rights Act and extensions
- Ban on poll taxes
- The Teacher Corps (now defunct, but partially replaced by Teach for America)
- Liberalizing laws for non-European immigrants
- Fair Housing Act
- Title IX
- The Equal Rights Amendment
- Lowering of Voting Age from 21 to 18
- The Americans with Disabilities Act
- Health care portability (Kennedy-Kassebaum law)
- Medicare Part D (prescription drug benefits)
- No Child Left Behind Act
- Minimum wage increases
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