FILE - In this April 21, 2009, file photo Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. reacts as President Barack Obama speaks at the SEED School of Washington in Washington. Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago

FILE - In this April 21, 2009, file photo Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. reacts as President Barack Obama speaks at the SEED School of Washington in Washington. Congress returns for its midsummer session Monday with a Senate supermajority not super enough for President Barack Obama's top priorities to pass without Republican support.

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  7. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 28: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), former Senator Edward William Brooke (R-MA), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Senator John Kerry (D-MA) and Vicki Reggie Kennedy, wife of late Sen. Edward Kennedy, gather onstage after a ceremony to honor Brooke with the Congressional Gold Medal in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on October 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Brooke, a two-term Republican senator from 1967-1979, was the first African-American elected to the senate by popular vote.
  8. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 09: Vicki Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), waits for U.S. President Barack Obama to arrive for a joint session of the U.S. Congress at the U.S. Capitol September 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama was scheduled to address the joint session to urge passage of his national health care plan, the centerpiece of his domestic agenda.
  9. FILE -- In this Jan. 20, 2009 file photograph provided by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., right, poses for a picture with his son, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., at the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the Capitol in Washington. Congressman Kennedy took out a half-page ad inside front section of Sept. 6, 2009 edition of The Providence Journal thanking his Rhode Island constituents for their support and sympathy after his father's death.
  10. Visitors pay their respects at the grave of US Senator Edward Kennedy a day after his burial August 30, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Kennedy died August 25 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  11. A cross marks the grave of US Senator Edward Kennedy a day after his burial August 30, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Kennedy died August 25 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  12. A cross marks the grave of US Senator Edward Kennedy a day after his burial August 30, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Kennedy died August 25 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
  13. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 21: Former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney addresses a forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the W Hotel September 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. Romney said the Obama Administration's foreign policy has alienated allies like Poland and encouraged autocrats like Vladamir Putin in Russia.
  14. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 21: Former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has a microphone attached to his tie before addressing a forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the W Hotel September 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. Romney said the Obama Administration's foreign policy has alienated allies like Poland and encouraged autocrats like Vladamir Putin in Russia.
  15. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 21: Former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney addresses a forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the W Hotel September 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. Romney said the Obama Administration's foreign policy has alienated allies like Poland and encouraged autocrats like Vladamir Putin in Russia.
  16. WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 21: Former Massachusetts Governor and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney addresses a forum of the Foreign Policy Initiative at the W Hotel September 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. Romney said the Obama Administration's foreign policy has alienated allies like Poland and encouraged autocrats like Vladamir Putin in Russia.

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