It sounds like Senator Kennedy is echoing President Bush's State of the Union message.

All in all, we're very well aligned with what the president laid out in his State of the Union address the other night.

Senator Kennedy is on many strange-bedfellow coalitions.

The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

There are folks who we have a moral responsibility to help, who are going to cost the taxpayers lots of money in the future, so there's a strong argument for us to help them with current cash.