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Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., rides an escalator in Washington, Wednesday, July 10, 2013, as senators rushed to the floor for a vote to end debate on the Democrats' plan to restore lower interest rates on student loans one week after Congress' inaction caused those rates to double. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke speaks at the National Bureau of Economic Research on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, in Cambridge, Mass. (Associated Press)

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Greenpeace protesters climb up the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe, on Thursday, July 11, 2013, in London during a protest against drilling in the Arctic by Royal Dutch Shell. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. right, accompanied by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., gestures as he speaks with reporters on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 9, 2013, about student loan rates following a Republican strategy session. Interest rates doubled to 6.8 percent last week because Congress didn't avert a rate hike built into the law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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**FILE** Rep. Peter Roskam, Illinois Republican, questions ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, on Capitol Hill, in Washington on May 17, 2013, as they testify during a hearing at the House Ways and Means Committee on the Internal Revenue Service practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (Associated Press)

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deporting fewer illegal immigrants this fiscal year, but a larger percentage of them have no criminal records. The numbers suggest that the Obama administration is struggling to meet its stated goals. (ICE via Associated Press)**FILE**

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"Manhattan Madam" Kristin Davis is running for comptroller of New York City against one of her former clients — Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who resigned after his involvement with prostitutes became public. (Kristin Davis)

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Actors Kevin Spacey and Kate Mara take instruction from director David Fincher at a D.C. Metro station during production of the Netflix series "House of Cards." The show, which is mostly filmed in Maryland, is taking advantage of a tax credit for film productions that more than tripled in the fiscal year that began July 1. (Netflix via Associated Press)

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Some alumni are calling for the University of Denver to bring back Denver Boone, the mascot that was jettisoned in 1998 for being politically incorrect.