Inside the golden domed State House on Beacon Hill is an oil painting of Romney with a copy of a bill decorated in a medical symbol beside a portrait of his wife Ann.

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Republicans can offer only token resistance now because Democrats hold 127 of the 160 House seats and 36 of 40 Senate seats on Beacon Hill.

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The Royal Opera House, he added, was financially stable and "a beacon of best practice in the arts sector".

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