Kennedy, a liberal standard bearer and consummate congressional dealmaker known as “the lion of the Senate,” died of cancer last year, aged 77, after 47 years as a senator. “I do think that this is the portrait of him that people haven’t seen, the actual guy working,” Camerini said. Part of the focus of the film, which airs on HBO on Wednesday, is Kennedy, a longtime champion of immigration. “It is a portrait of lawmaking from the inside,” said Shari Robertson, who spent almost a decade making the film with her husband, Michael Camerini. It takes on the complicated task of showing how compromises are made to a bill even before it is debated by lawmakers. The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine. The film, “The Senators’ Bargain,” follows the late Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and other key players in the failed effort to pass landmark immigration reform in 2007. Kennedy Serve America Act, at the SEED Public Charter School in Washington, April 21, 2009. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) reacts after President Barack Obama signed H.R.
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