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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks to the media after touring New York Fire Department Engine 24 Ladder 5, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

Romney used fees to close budget gap

Last updated Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 9:26am

EDITOR'S NOTE -- An occasional look behind the rhetoric of political candidates.

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's boast that he closed a $3 billion budget gap as Massachusetts governor without raising taxes is a cornerstone of his White House campaign, a way to highlight his pitch for lower taxes and leaner government in a race where federal budget deficits and the slumping economy are hot issues.

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FILE - In this March 25, 2003, file photo Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's Transportation Secretary Daniel Grabauskas talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Boston, during which he explained Massachusetts and federal highway officials will work together to pursue reimbursements for cost overruns by some Big Dig contractors. Grabauskas, in a June 17, 2004, letter to the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee panel's chief of staff said federal money for the Longfellow Bridge could be provided as part of the "bridge program, a new mega-project or an outside earmark, or a combination of the three." (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)

Romney backed earmarks as governor

Andrew Miga The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 11:20am

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney takes a hard line against congressional earmarks, but the GOP presidential front-runner had a more favorable view of federal pork-barrel spending when he was governor of Massachusetts.

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(Associated Press file photo) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., smiles as he sits with daughter Kara Kennedy at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in May 2008. Kara, the oldest child of the senator who died Aug. 25, 2009, died Friday at a Washington-area health club, says brother Patrick Kennedy. The 51-year-old had battled lung cancer, which left her weakened, her brother says. “Her heart gave out. She’s with Dad.”

Kara Kennedy, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at 51 after workout

Andrew Miga, Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, September 18, 2011 - 6:12pm

WASHINGTON — Kara Kennedy became teary-eyed when she accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of her ailing father at a 2009 White House ceremony, but she also managed to smile as Sen. Ted Kennedy’s life was honored. After the senator died two weeks later following a battle with brain cancer, his only daughter read a psalm at his funeral Mass in Boston. It was about peace and justice and caring for poor children.

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(The Associated Press) Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., listens during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington in 2008. Most of the secret FBI files on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy being released Monday concern death threats against the longtime senator.

Kennedy was death threat magnet, FBI file shows

Andrew Miga, Glen Johnson, The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, June 14, 2010 - 7:50pm

WASHINGTON -- For decades after gunmen shot down his brothers, Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes chillingly specific, as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday.

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