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Brought to you by the Depression Is Real Coalition, The Down & Up Show is dedicated to the reality of depression. Each week our hosts will talk with some of the world's top experts on depression, as well as people who have been impacted by this illness. The reality of depression is that it is a debilitating and potentially deadly medical condition that affects more than 15 million Americans every year. The other reality of depression is that there is hope. Congressman Patrick Kennedy Patrick
J. Kennedy is serving his seventh term in Congress as the representative
from the First District of Rhode Island.
Kennedy was appointed to the House Appropriations Committee in December 1998, but requested a leave of absence in order to fulfill a two-year term as the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. With the term completed, Kennedy now sits on the powerful panel which has authority over all of the federal government's discretionary spending. As part of his Appropriations duties, Kennedy sits on the Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education; Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary and on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. He is also a member of the Committee on Natural Resources. Kennedy, who is single and lives in Portsmouth, was born July 14, 1967, in Brighton, Mass. The youngest of three children of Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Joan Bennett Kennedy, he came to Rhode Island to attend Providence College, where he graduated with a degree in Social Science in 1991. He was elected to the R.I. House of Representatives in 1988 at the age of 21, and then re-elected in 1990 and 1992. Kennedy served on both the Health, Education and Welfare and Special Legislative Committees and in 1992 was named chairman of the House Rules Committee. He was a leader on gun control issues, sponsoring the state’s seven-day waiting period for gun purchases. Mental Health |
