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January 29: Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy
III, seen as a rising political star with a famous last name, will deliver the
Democratic response to President Trump's State of the Union on Tuesday.
Top Democratic leaders in Congress made the announcement Thursday evening,
calling Kennedy a "relentless fighter for working Americans." Kennedy is the
grandson of the late Robert Kennedy, the former U.S. attorney general and New
York senator who was assassinated in 1968. He is also the great nephew of both
the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late president John F.
Kennedy.
"While President Trump has consistently broken his promises to the middle class,
Congressman Kennedy profoundly understands the challenges facing hard-working
men and women across the country," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
said in a statement.
January 30: Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass.,
accused President Donald Trump of dividing the country in the official
Democratic response to the State of the Union address on Tuesday night.
"Folks, it would be easy to dismiss the past year as chaos, as partisanship, as
politics, but it's far bigger than that," said Kennedy, the 37-year-old grandson
of Robert F. Kennedy. "This administration isn't just targeting the laws that
protect us. They're targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of
protection."
January 30: Kennedy also called out a Russia
"knee-deep" in U.S. democracy, an "all-out war" on environmental protection and
a Justice Department that he describes as "rolling back civil rights by the
day."
January 30: Democratic Rep. Joe Kennedy
[Massachusetts] sharply criticized President Donald Trump and his
administration, giving his party's response to the State of the Union with a
speech that became a rallying cry around key causes that make up his party's
coalition.
Kennedy, who spoke in front of a Mustang on a car lift in the autoshop at Diman
Regional Technical School in Fall River, Massachusetts, pitched the Democratic
Party as a party that helps "Coal miners or single moms. Rural communities or
inner cities. The coast or the heartland."
January 30: ...
Kennedy III (D-Mass.) denounced
the
Trump administration’s policies for “turning American life into a zero-sum
game” in which the well-being of some Americans must come at the expense of
others.
Democratic policies that
exemplify ... values, according to Kennedy, include a “living wage, paid leave
and affordable child care”; a health care system that “offers mercy”; and an
“economy strong enough to boast record stock prices and brave enough to admit
that top CEOs making 300 times the average worker is not right.”
Switching briefly to Spanish, Kennedy addressed Dreamers, as undocumented
immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children are commonly known.
January 30: Shortly after the president
addressed the nation, promising unity and touting his administration’s
accomplishments to “Make America Great Again,” [Joe Kennedy] the 37-year-old congressman and
member of one of America’s most prominent political dynasties gave the official
Democratic rebuttal to his speech.
Kennedy followed in one great uncle’s footsteps Tuesday. Ted Kennedy delivered
the Democratic response to former President Ronald Reagan’s address in 1982.
June 11: Oops: Joe Kennedy III Says His
Nuclear Vote Was an Accident
Kennedy had to explain what happened after someone asked him about an
unexpectedly pro-Trump vote on Twitter.
We’ve all been there. One minute you’re minding your own business, voting on
laws and whatnot, and the next minute—boom!—you’re green-lighting a nuclear
weapons program for President Trump.
June 17: Joe Kennedy protests Trump’s
family-separation policy
Representative Joe Kennedy III joined protesters at the Texas border Sunday and
blasted President Trump for separating migrant children from their parents,
comparing those fleeing violence in Central America to his own ancestors who
left Ireland generations ago.
“My family, on both sides — this is how we came to this country,” the
Massachusetts Democrat told the Globe in a phone interview Sunday. “It was
extreme poverty and famine and a government that was unwilling to address the
needs of its people.”
July 18: Rep. Joe Kennedy III calls for
Trump's translator to testify before Congress
Democratic
Rep. Joe Kennedy III called on the White House Wednesday to publicly recount
what occurred in the private meeting between President
Trump and
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
If the White House does not come forward, Congress should bring the president’s
translator to testify, under subpoena if necessary, the Massachusetts
congressman suggested during an interview on CNN’s “New Day.”
Mr. Kennedy
acknowledged that the proposal is complicated by potential legal issues around
privilege, but he said “it shouldn’t get that far.”
Without the testimony of officials or the translator,
Mr. Kennedy
argued, the U.S. will have to depend on the Russian readout of the private
meeting.
