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...federal funds paying for the 7.5 miles of roadway (3.5 of which are underground) have been guaranteed by a long series of colorful Congressional benefactors. The list includes Edward Kennedy '54-'56, the senior senator from Massachusetts, former House Rules Committee Chair J. Joseph Moakley of South Boston and former Speaker of the House, the late Thomas "Tip" O'Neill of Cambridge. In the Bay State, these are noble men who have served the interests of their community well. Many say The Big Dig was Tip O'Neill's final salute, his going away present...
...discussion featured short speeches by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, Sen. John F. Kerry, and Reps. J. Joseph Moakley, Joseph P. Kennedy II and Richard E. Neal, all of whom attacked proposed cuts in funding for education...
...Moakley never wrote checks totalling more than his upcoming month's pay. Members who carried negative monthly balances at least eight times over the period covered by a House investigation of the bank made the list of the top 22 worst abusers...
...Still, Moakley's total of 90 bad checks worth a total of $31,259 was high compared to most House members. On a list of the top 66 abusers of the bank, 16 members had fewer than 90 bad checks. Three of those members wrote checks totalling less than Moakley's total...
...seems clear that I should have majored in accounting rather than sheet metal when I was at Southie High," said Moakley, a 20-year veteran of the House and chairman of the powerful Rules Committee. "I take full responsibility for my actions...