Business_Finance

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DIGGING IT: D.C. Water is spending $1.6 billion to build a tunnel following the course of the Anacostia River to divert sewage system overflows to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. It is expected to be completed by 2017. (Andrew Harnik, The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Jack Lew testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, joined by college students, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 31, 2013. He called on Congress to keep federally subsidized student loans rates from doubling on July 1. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg speaks at the Real Estate Board of New York on Thursday, May 30, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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In 2010, Virginia Republican E. Scott Rigell won a House seat after spending $2.6 million of his own money. (Associated Press)

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I didn't know about the monitoring of journalist's emails ... (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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**FILE** Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat and ranking member on the House Budget Committee, speaks about the budget at the 2013 Fiscal Summit in Washington on May 7, 2013. (Associated Press)