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...were sometimes over the top, but it did the job. There was the tip of the hat to the black Democratic mayor of Philly and the black-Hispanic couple (twofer!) of West Chester, Pa. (Why all the fawning over the Keystone State?) He saluted the ailing Democratic congressman Joe Moakley. He quoted JFK and threw a bouquet to self-styled deal maker, Louisiana senator John Breaux. By comparison, poor Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle seemed niggling and churlish in their Democratic response. Although you have to feel sorry for them: the faux library of a House office is no match...
...Moakley gained power and influence in the Democrat-controlled House, reaching the pinnacle of his career as chair of the Rules Committee, a final checkpoint for all legislation. In 1989, investigations he pursued helped implicate the military of El Salvador in the murder of six Jesuit priests, a finding that dried up American military aid and hastened the end of El Salvador's civil...
Though his national prestige increased, Moakley never forgot the city in which he was born and raised, working to provide the funding for cleaning up Boston Harbor, rebuilding the Central Artery and constructing a new federal courthouse in downtown Boston...
...Moakley said that he plans to continue to fight for prescription drug coverage and a stabilization of Medicare funding in his retirement. Moreover, he intends on remaining in Congress until a successor is elected, a decision that epitomizes his love of the job and his devotion to the people of Boston. Moakley has established a political life that we wish more public servants would emulate...
...hopes and prayers are with Moakley as he begins to confront a deadly cancer. Judging by his political career, we know that he will fight to the very...