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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, left, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, take their seats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, left, huddles with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, during the Senate Appropriations Committee on hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen, Defense Robert Gates and Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2010, before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2011 budget. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward (second from left), BP America chief Lamar McKay (second from right), BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg (center) and other BP representatives arrive at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2001, for a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Tony Hayward (left), chief executive officer of BP PLC, arrives at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010. As devastation from the worst U.S. oil spill mounts, President Obama vowed that BP will pay for all damage caused by its recklessness and that the government would commit to restoring the Gulf Coast. (Bloomberg News/Andrew Harrer)

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** FILE ** Vessels operate near the Q4000 drilling rig at the site of the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward (left), BP America chief Lamar McKay (second from right) and other BP executives arrive at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, for a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Richard Stavis, CEO of Stavis Seafoods, Inc., poses with 13 - 15 count domestic gulf shrimp at their corporate headquarters in the Seaport District of Boston, Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Most of the Gulf of Mexico is still open to fishing despite the oil spill, and crews continue to deliver shrimp and other seafood to the market. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)

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Lamar McKay, BP America chairman and president, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, before the House Energy and Environment subcommittee hearing on oil drilling. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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People wait in a long line in front of a Bic Camera electronics store which takes pre-orders ahead of the June 24 launch of iPhone 4 in Tokyo Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Customers were instructed to submit reservations online with Softbank Mobile Corp., the iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan, or at any of its retail outlets as well as Apple stores. (AP Photo/Tomoko A. Hosaka)

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This photo provided by Sotheby's shows "9-Part Self Portrait" by Chuck Close. The collage of large-format Polaroid Polapan prints is among 1,000 Polaroid and gelatin silver prints being offered at Sotheby's as part of a bankruptcy court-approved sale June 21-22. (PBE Corp. via Associated Press)

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Members of a delegation from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund leave the Greek Finance Ministry in central Athens on Monday, June 14, 2010. The officials arrived in Greece on Monday for an interim review of the country's efforts to pull itself out of a major debt crisis that pushed it to the brink of default. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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The congregation is led in corporate prayer at the Falls Church in Falls Church, Va., June 3, 2010, each person praying so that all prayers sound like a murmur in the room. (Michelle Phillips/The Washington Times)

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Then-President George W. Bush carries his two dogs, Barney, foreground, and Miss Beazley, background, down the steps of Air Force One on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, near Washington. Mr. Bush was returning to Washington after spending 11 days in Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **

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**FILE** Retired Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 6, 2007. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama signs a presidential memorandum outlining the next steps for cleaner and more efficient vehicles on May 21, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. From left: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, White House energy czar Carol Browner, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Navistar Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ustian, Waste Management driver Anthony Dunkley and Daimler Trucks North America Chief Executive Officer Martin Daum. (Associated Press)

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Workers are pictured on the assembly line of Opel's Insignia model at the company's plant in Ruesselsheim, Germany, in 2008. General Motors announced on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013, that it will end shipments of Chevrolet cars to the Continent to focus on the German-based Opel and U.K.-based Vauxhall, its main brands in Europe. (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)

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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Pence, Indiana Republican, stresses the importance of state fiscal responsibility. (Michael Connor/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** A Toyota customer in New York shows what he said is a modified gas pedal in his 2009 Toyota Camry on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. The customer said he was preparing to take his Camry back to a Toyota dealership because previous repairs to fix an acceleration problem, including work on the gas pedal, have not solved the issue with his car. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

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** FILE ** Stuart Levey, Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Treasury Department in Washington in 2008. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)