BOSTON (AP) -- A cancer-stricken Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has written a poignant letter to Massachusetts leaders asking that they change state law to allow a speedy replacement of him in Congress.... By GLEN JOHNSON Read the full story.
Kennedy was the one who got the law changed. At the time, the governor could appoint to a vacant seat; but the governor was a Republican. Now the governor is a Democrat, Kennedy wants it changed back.