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In a speech to the National Press Club, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) criticized the Bush administration on education, the war in Iraq, and the president's policies on science. "We should stop the non-scientific... nonsense emanating from the right wing and start demanding immediate action to reduce global warming and prevent the catastrophic climate change that may be on our horizon now," Kennedy said in his speech.

Kennedy has represented Massachusetts for more than 40 years. The youngest of nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, "Ted" entered politics in 1962 at age 30, when he won the Senate seat formerly held by his brother, President John F. Kennedy. There, he took up some of the causes that had been the focus of another brother -- former U.S. attorney general, senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

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