Today Senator Patty Murray spoke about her memories of Senator Ted Kennedy, with whom she served on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

You can also listen to the speech here.

Mr. President, when I was young, Ted Kennedy was larger than life.

I was just 12 years old when he was first elected to the Senate as the youngest son of a political dynasty that seemed to dominate the TV each night in my house and the newspapers each morning.

At first he served in the shadow of his older brothers. But as I grew up, the youngest brother of the Kennedy family did too – in front of the entire nation.

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