{"id":7008,"date":"2009-08-26T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-statement-on-passing-of-senator-edward-kennedy\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:38","slug":"merkley-statement-on-passing-of-senator-edward-kennedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-passing-of-senator-edward-kennedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Declaraci\u00f3n de Merkley sobre el fallecimiento del senador Edward Kennedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>WASHINGTON DC - <\/strong>El senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, emiti\u00f3 el<br \/>\nsiguiente declaraci\u00f3n sobre el fallecimiento del senador de Massachusetts Edward Kennedy:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cLa primera vez que vi al senador Kennedy en acci\u00f3n fue cuando habl\u00f3 con<br \/>\nPasantes del Senado en 1976. Hab\u00eda una multitud que s\u00f3lo estaba de pie. Era<br \/>\ntremendamente impresionado por su lucha de principios por los trabajadores estadounidenses, su<br \/>\nvoz retumbante y su pasi\u00f3n. Su t\u00edtulo informal como &quot;Le\u00f3n del<br \/>\nSenado&#039; fue bien merecido.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">\u201c\u00c9l ha sido la fuerza detr\u00e1s de tantos avances en \u00e1reas<br \/>\ndesde la atenci\u00f3n sanitaria y la educaci\u00f3n hasta los derechos civiles y el poder judicial,<br \/>\nincluyendo legislaci\u00f3n hist\u00f3rica como Medicare, Head Start y los americanos<br \/>\ncon Ley de Discapacidad. Incluso mientras luchaba contra la enfermedad que<br \/>\nfinalmente nos lo quit\u00f3, continu\u00f3 presionando por una reforma del sistema de salud que<br \/>\nproporcionar\u00eda a todos los estadounidenses atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica asequible y de calidad. en un<br \/>\nvida marcada por tantas tragedias personales, nunca abandon\u00f3 la batalla para<br \/>\nhacer de nuestra naci\u00f3n un lugar mejor y m\u00e1s justo para los estadounidenses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cEl senador Kennedy se dedic\u00f3 al m\u00e1s americano de los valores:&nbsp;<br \/>\nque cada persona merece igualdad de oportunidades para perseguir el objetivo que Dios le ha otorgado.<br \/>\ntalentos.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: small;\">\u201cLa naci\u00f3n ha perdido a un gigante. El senador Kennedy hizo la<br \/>\nSenado un lugar mejor, hizo del pa\u00eds un lugar mejor y no puedo expresar<br \/>\nCu\u00e1n honrado me siento de haber tenido una breve oportunidad de servir con \u00e9l\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; WASHINGTON, DC &ndash; Oregon&rsquo;s Senator Jeff Merkley issued the following statement on the passing of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy: &ldquo;I first saw Senator Kennedy in action when he spoke to Senate interns in 1976.&nbsp; It was a standing-room-only crowd.&nbsp; I was tremendously impressed by his principled fight for working Americans, his booming voice, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40,37],"class_list":["post-7008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-education","tag-health-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley Statement on Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-statement-on-passing-of-senator-edward-kennedy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley Statement on Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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