TRIBUTES

MA House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo

Massachusetts Speaker of the House

August 26, 2009

The loss of Senator Kennedy leaves a chasm in the Massachusetts political landscape. His contributions to the American people, to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to his family – to whom I extend my personal condolences -- were without equal. No words better fit the moment than those of Senator Kennedy himself: "The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."