Frank Lautenberg

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4. A longer quote by Kerry

Secretary of State John Kerry, a former U.S. senator from Massachusetts who worked in the Senate with Lautenberg for 20 years, said, “He was an American original, and as decent a person as I’ve ever known in public life.”

Senator Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz traveled with Lautenberg in 1992 to the first UN sustainable development and climate change conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Kerry said today, “Frank never lost faith with that commitment to the environment.”

“During the years when Frank was going through chemotherapy and he was weakened by cancer, he was still down there on the floor of the United States Senate fighting on every environmental debate late into the night,” said Kerry. “One day I realized where so much of that conviction came from, because Frank told me about his grandchild whose asthma was exacerbated by pollution. For some, all politics is local, but for Frank, all politics was personal, and I loved that about him.”

http://ens-newswire.com/2013/06/03/senator-frank-lautenberg-environmental-champion-passes-away/