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Sen. Kennedy goes home after cancer diagnosis
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-05-22 09:31
It is unclear whether Kennedy, known as Teddy, will have to resign because of his illness, but he is expected to take time off from the Senate while undergoing chemotherapy. Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said she was pleased to hear Kennedy was released from the hospital and is anxious to see and hear him back at work. "We know that Senator Kennedy is coming back and we hope he is coming back very soon," Klobuchar said. "We miss him." "His booming voice on the Senate floor is something that I actually like to have visitors come to watch him and hear because he is just an amazing person," she added. The chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is the last of four brothers. President Kennedy and Sen. Kennedy were both assassinated during the turbulent 1960s, while eldest brother Joseph Jr. was killed in World War Two. News of his illness has stunned Massachusetts residents. "It was a shock to hear about it. I just feel so bad for him," said Joanne Green, 60, who was outside the hospital waiting for kidney surgery and a glimpse of the senator. "He's had such a hard life."
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