Edward M. Kennedy: “It is extremely difficult to try and convince my constituents in Massachusetts, where we have thousands of men and women…”

We believe that immigrants, like women and African Americans before them, have rights in this country, and the time is ripe for a new civil rights moment.

Federal Express is notorious for its anti-union ideology, but there is no justification for Congress becoming an accomplice in its union-busting tactics.

What we face is, above all, a moral issue that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.

This board has undermined collective bargaining at every turn, putting the power of the law behind lawbreakers, not law victims.