Sen. Kennedy Returns to Washington Home
KENNEDY
The New Bedford Standard-Times
Courtney Hime
Boston University Washington News Service
October 28, 2008
WASHINGTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s office confirmed that the senator, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in May, returned to his home in Washington Tuesday.
Though it is unclear whether Sen. Kennedy will go to his office on Capitol Hill, a spokesperson confirmed that the senator will continue working from his Washington home.
While in his home in Hyannis Port, the senator was working to lay groundwork for health care legislation for next year’s Congress. Sen. Kennedy has been on the phones and holding teleconferences with his staff and other members of the Senate, the spokesperson said, and would continue those activities while in Washington.
Sen. Kennedy plans to stay in Washington until the Thanksgiving holiday, when he will return to Cape Cod, the spokesperson said. Sen. Kennedy, who has served in the Senate for 46 years, is still planning on making his official return to the Senate in January when the first session of the 111th Congress convenes.
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