Richard Blumenthal actually said...

Thank you, Senator Kennedy.

the only way to really stop it is not by relying on laws alone but on people respecting the laws, taking acts of personal courage, and comin...

There is now arguably a cancer on the Presidency as malignant and metastasizing as there was then.

Ultimately, also it was those Republicans in the United States Senate who delivered the message, 'We won't stand for it.'