it opened up the civil-right movementf 1964, the public accommations, the nondiscrimination in emploente 1965 voting rhts act. i thnk the brown vs. bod of education was the dcision that rely set the stage it was dr. king it was th iritual -- it was dr. king who was the spiritual leer of the movement, but browvs. board of education opened that way. tavis: education is one of those ways that we appreciateenator kennedy for bng stalwt on, yes? >> senator kennedy h a passion for equal education for all of our children i remeer so well when that decision came down in 1964, -- one that in 1954, iwas 14 yes old. i thought i would get to ride on a better hool bus. innever happened for me. i continuedo attend overcrowded, poorly suprted, segregatedchools. but kennedy, was our champion with education for all children. lt that every child should reive the best possible ecation. tavis: i mentioned that we wi speak with edward burke, former senatofrom massachuset who served aloside senator kennedy. my question is whethe or not you are concerned that the abnce of a on liksenator kennedy ans there is

for instance, if there is a nondiscrimination fifth principle, there are four principles regarding network management to give consumers the freedom to go wherever they want on the internet, basically. that is what it all boils down to. you want to make sure it is as open and free as possible. there are times when network operators, your phone, cable, or internet service providers all have to manage the network and traffic flow. there are surges of information. if you think of software as torpedo size, can you shoot that through a drinking straw of a wire to go from in user to end user. they have to be able to manage things like these denial of service attacks that come from within or outside of the country. the have to be able to look for a lawful content such as child pornography or stolen intellectual property. there are a lot of practical, everyday questions. as a consumer, if you download a movie, you want to be able to see that movie smoothly, and you do not want your e-mail bids or your voip bits freezing of the picture or interfering with your viewing experience. so there are qualit

so, for instance, if there's a nondiscrimination fifth principle of the fcc in 2005 came up with four, sort of pro-consumer principles regarding network management, net neutrality to give consumers the freedom to go wherever they want on the internet is what it boils down to, and we want to preserve the internet is as open and free as possible. but there are times when network operators, your phone company, internet service providers, all have to manage the network and the traffic flow. there are surges of information, new types of soft square. if -- software. if you think of it as a torpedo-sized piece of software, can you shoot that through a straw, basically, they have to be able to manage information flows, they have to be able to manage attacks that come from inside or outside the country. they have to be able to look for unlawful content, child pornography or stolen intellectual property also. so there are a lot of practical, everyday questions. as a consumer if you download a movie, you want to be able to see that movie smoothly, and you don't want your e-mail bits or your voic

he signed legislation, for nondiscrimination in the work place, our colleagues will address many of these issues more specifically. but we had the economic recovery act to begin with. helping americans save their homes, edward kennedy serve america act. as one said, book ends in our economic recovery package and 100 days later the budget. the president called for three pillars to turn the economy around. investment, education, in health care and a new energy policy for america. and we did just that. i congratulate the distinguished leader that we have passed all 12. no small feat and if it were not accomplished, it would be a small feat to do. in terms of quality health care, not only do we have our health care reform, we have food safety, f.d.a. regulation of tobacco, and the list goes on. clean energy, you know about the clean energy act, the public lands management act. fiscal responsibility, our budget blueprint, and once again the leader taking responsibility for passing the statutory legislation. protecting consumers, credit card holders, fraud enforcement, military procurement refo

act signed which is morepportuty for people to sue for past discrimination he got than genetic nondiscriminationned into law and has bee fighting for that 10 years it is just picking his moments in working with republicans he has a very great relationship with orrin hatch you doesn't smoke or drink they work very well together. >> is striking with all of the partisanship and to look again at the readers'ments, you the billn the setian and hostility some strong disagreement but at the same time perhaps this is alluilt up since the early 90's are leftover fro chappaquiddick but especial built up he was more effective than ever in dealing people with the sun and. >> his very well-respected and he works very hard and hard work is respected, hidlary clinton had issues not of personal behavior but people are wondering if she was trading on her name and s hunker down and resed for her hard work but he knows how to play people we have the upper use he was trying to negotiate with trucks for the immigration bill he is the tax then who loves his cigars of kenny went over he brought eight pinellas envelope

it is religious nondiscrimination amendment. >> without -- did the clerk report the amendment?> not yet. not yet, mr. chairman. i'm ready. it's an amendment offered by mr. shimkus of illinois. >> without objection, the amendment will be considered as read, the gentleman from illinois is recognized for 5 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i'll be real quick. this is to, hopefully, insure that there's nondiscrimination in any health insurance exchange against patients forerer lishes -- religious reasons who use spiritual care. there should be no additional cost to the bill, and it's already provisions already found in medicare and medicaid. several federal employee health benefit option plans. i know there's other members that would like to speak on the bill, and i'd like to yield my time to them. first, i'd like to go to my colleague from louisiana. >> thank you, mr. shimkus. thank you, mr. chairman. i just want to support, say that i support this bipartisan amendment and encourage my colleagues to do so as well. i think it's important to clarify there's no discrimination

i have a significant amount of experience in dealing with it on the genetic nondiscrimination act whereer we passed bills and worked to make them acceptable. >> it's interesting if you go back to president bush's days, deals with senator kennedy on education and on health care, on medicaid drug prescription. whatever one thinks of those pieces of legislation, the fact is they were compromises. i want to ask you, renaming obama care, which is highlighted by the government insurance plan and radical cutbacks in medicare among its many other problems, its taxing and spending, what changes here? why do we suddenly think the polls, which have been declining and the revolt from the town halls, why do we think that's going to change, sir? >> well, i don't think it is going to change. and the thing that concerns me more than anything is this continued view by the leadership in congress the opposition and the actual true worry and concern of the american people is contrived. i assure you i've never seen anything like this in my entire life. it is not contrived and it's not just republicans. peop

genetic information nondiscrimination act remains in place. state laws remain in place. so i'm trying to encourage wellness programs. i yield back to dr. murphy. >> i'm just imagining a conversation between two people. one person who jogs and exercises, sees a doctor, eats right, and all the things that this committee has death with before with regard to food safety, with regard to encouraging people to not smoke. sitting next to someone who does smoke who doesn't take care of themselves and the person realizing that the other person's taxes pay for them. that would be an interesting conversation. >> gentleman's time has expired. you wish to be recognized. we're entitled to five minutes. if you can take less. lit be appreciated. >> i will move quickly. just begin by saying that autoinsurance is not the same as health insurance. a driver can choose not to speed. a person can't change her dna, heredity. it's easy to figure out who has had an accident or not and discourage that in the future with premiums. it's different in health care. completely different. so the gentle l

of the publix option say you don't need it simply have strong insurance reform, continue this nondiscrimination based on pre-existing conditions, try and get the insurance companies to rein in costs and you might achieve some of the same goals. therein lies the friction. >> you bring up a good point. there are many people who are happy with health care that they have. so why not just expand upon what we already have? is that a consideration or does that make sense? >> people have definitely talked about that. the president has always said, if you are happy with what you have, if you have access to private insurance and your premiums aren't above a certain percentage of your income, that's what you'll stick it. but he talked about this idea of expanding medicare so people between the ages of 55 and 64 could buy into medicare at full price. he's also talk about medicaid as a possibility of raising the income level at which someone would qualify for medicaid. you could make more and still qualify under some of these proposals. possibly. you're right, this idea that you have the public option, popg

i don't think this tension between the fx test in the nondiscrimination mandate the constitution was underlined what was going on in northwest austin. i think, i will come back to that. i will come back that even what wasn't present in the case the court went out of its way to sort of make this point. they said that voting against justice kennedy, race cannot be the predominant factor in redistricting under a decision, miller b. johnson yet in the 14th minute, section two, seemed to be what saved under section five. so my basic point is it wasn't the central issue. but there is this tension between section five effect testimony on in the constitution. a point that wasn't noted in the courts opinion, and that will become prominent, when i bring the next challenge, the point we made in our brief which was unbelievably enough, in 2006 and they didn't just continue the requirements of section five, they said, no, what we have done in mississippi in 1965 really isn't enough to cabin the incredible racism of these covered jurisdictions in 2006. things have gotten so much worse in the 1960s

he got -- he has gotten the genetic nondiscrimination law we signedn to act. he has gottenery good at just picking his moment, working with republicans. he is very close relationship with senator hatch, a mormon who doesn't tree and it doesn't smoke and some of the most conservative and beings i have a format. they work really well together. >> it really is striking that with all of the partisanship and to look again at the readers' comments that subsection of the comments you see the villains, the hostility, some hatred, strong disagreement, that at the same time perhaps this all has built up since the early 90's and it was left over from chappaquiddick but specially built of he has been more effective than ever dealing with people in the senate. >> he's very well respected and hard work is respected by everybody in the senate the matter who it is. hillary clinton had not iues of personal behavior but certainly some of the same issues kennedy had people woering if she was treating her name and so forth a she hunkered down and was respected for her hard work b

i believe the employment nondiscrimination act has just been reintroduced.or gillibrand is pressing for the first hearings for don't ask, don't tell, this fall. as far as what is coming from the white house, there are two small gestures. host: we have a clip of president barack obama talking to the gay community. . >> so we are all witnesses to monumental changes in this country. that should give us hope. but we cannot rest. we must continue to do our part to make, -- progress, step-by- step. i want g. to know in this task i will not only be your friend, i will continue to be an ally and champion and president that fights with you and for you. host: what is your reaction to that? guest: beautiful words, and i have no doubt they are heartfelt, but that is all they are. there is something else he said at that party. that clip was from a reception held at the white house to mark the 40th anniversary of the stonewall riots in 1969 which are generally paid to be the beginning of the modern-day civil rights movement. in that reception, he also described stonewall

days before he was diagnosed with a tumor, he made his -- the house had just passed the genetic nondiscrimination act which prevents health companies from diagnosing you if you have a predisposition to the bill. you say, oh, you're involved in that bill well he's the could sponsor of that bill as well. that's going to help a lot of people. not many people have genetic disorders like that, but there are thousands of people thousand who now are safe from losing their health care. he played a big role in that. not many people know about that. guest: i go back to the first initial call the caller was making. i grew up in massachusetts, and i'm fully aware -- i fully agree, frankly, with what the caller said that the kennedy mistier technique, which is very strong, remains, obviously, very strong in massachusetts. we have learned, we have known for a long time, that it doesn't extend all that far or strongly or as much as it used to be across the country, as it used to, as it did certainly in 1960, and the limits of that kennedy mystique were shown in senator kennedy's unsuccessful campaign in 1980. s

days before he was diagnosed with a tumor, he made his -- the house had just passed the genetic nondiscrimination act which prevents health companies from diagnosing you if you have a predisposition to the bill. you say, oh, you're involved in that bill well he's the could sponsor of that bill as well. that's going to help a lot of people. not many people have genetic disorders like that, but there are thousands of people thousand who now are safe from losing their health care. he played a big role in that. not many people know about that. guest: i go back to the first initial call the caller was making. i grew up in massachusetts, and i'm fully aware -- i fully agree, frankly, with what the caller said that the kennedy mistier technique, which is very strong, remains, obviously, very strong in massachusetts. we have learned, we have known for a long time, that it doesn't extend all that far or strongly or as much as it used to be across the country, as it used to, as it did certainly in 1960, and the limits of that kennedy mystique were shown in senator kennedy's unsuccessful campaign in 1980. s