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'Lion' Kennedy King of the Senate

Posted May 18, 08 5:36 AM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Ted Kennedy’s seizure yesterday forced Washington lawmakers to imagine a world without the legendary 76-year-old senator—and how difficult it would be to fill his shoes,Time notes. Willing to work across the aisle to push key legislation, the Democratic kingpin's name has been on nearly all the bipartisan bills of the past seven years. He’s “a legendary lawmaker and I have the highest respect for him,” said John McCain.

Former Sen. Tom Daschle hails Kennedy as a “lion," and Time calls him one of the century's "greatest legislators.” “I always wanted to be in the Senate. I love it,” he told Time. Kennedy is conscious and talking in a Boston hospital, and isn’t “in any immediate danger,” said his doctor, who is working to determine the cause of the seizure.

Sources Time, Boston Globe

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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles with Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., during a rally at American University in Washington Monday, Jan. 28, 2008. Kennedy endorsed Obama Monday,...   (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Sen. Ted Kennedy is flanked by Barack Obama supporters as he speaks at the Del Mar College Richardson Performance Hall Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 in Corpus Christi, Texas.   (AP Photo/The Caller-Times, Todd Yates)
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., speaks to the media outside Stormont Parliament Building in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in this May 8, 2007 file photo. The memoirs of Ted Kennedy, the youngest and last surviving...   (AP Photo/Peter Morrison, File)
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., left, talks with Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., as Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the U. S. Capitol in Washington Thursday, April...   (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)
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