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Kennedy, 76, was put in a wheelchair after suffering what appears to have been a seizure at the end of the meal. He was escorted to an ambulance by three Senators, Orrin Hatch, John Kerry and Chris Dodd. Kennedy's wife Victoria and his son Patrick accompanied him to a hospital. It was a seizure last spring that led to Kennedy's diagnosis of cancer and subsequent surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor. "I personally wished he hadn't come today," said Senator Hatch. "But he's a person who really does love history ... He wouldn't miss this...
...difficult thing, but it looked to me as if he would be O.K.," said Hatch. "He was starting to do O.K. by the time he was being wheeled out." Later, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, said Kennedy was doing better and "responding well to treatment." Senator Dodd, who noted that Kennedy had been having seizures in the recent past, reported that Kennedy was talking as he was put in the ambulance, saying, "O.K., see you later." (See pictures of celebrities at the Inauguration...
...minutes, telling old war stories. He was keeping us all laughing." And then, said Mondale, "he seemed to go into a seizure of something." After the seizure, said Senator Leahy, "a lot of us were making the sign of the cross. You can tell the Irish." Said a hopeful Dodd: "The good news is he's going to be fine." Recalling Kennedy's tone of voice before he was driven to the hospital, Dodd said, "When he bellows, he is usually in pretty good shape...
...filibuster is "one of the most abused parliamentary tools of the Senate." - speaking in favor of legislative reform, during his race against Chris Dodd to be Senate Majority Leader, New York Times...
...campaigned against Senator Chris Dodd to become Senate Minority Leader, winning by just won vote. He also served as Majority Leader after Vermont's Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party in 2001 to become an independent and caucus with the Democrats, giving Daschle a one vote majority...