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D.C. Jail in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of wtopnews.com)

Security vehicles are shown at a gate to a Tesoro Corp. refinery , Friday, April 2, 2010, in Anacortes, Wash. An overnight fire and explosion at the refinery killed at least three people working at the plant. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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**FILE** An enormous crowd takes part in the Sept. 12 march on Washington to protest government spending and health care reform proposals. The field plan for a series of grassroots demonstrations Tuesday to push President Obama's health care agenda show the events will be tightly scripted with plans for "escalation," but organizers insist there is no comparison to rowdy town hall meetings and "tea party" protests challenging White House policies that they say conservatives staged. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** In this photo from Nov. 17, 2009, Brian Moynihan, Bank of America's president of consumer and small business banking, testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the role of the federal government in the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Rick Watts, 49, protests outside a Whole Foods store in West Hollywood, Calif., on Aug. 23, 2009. The protest took place after John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market, wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal about health care reform. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 13, 2009, Pfizer employees walk past a sign at the Pfizer Global Research and Development facility in Groton, Conn. Pfizer Inc., the world's biggest drug company, on Nov. 9 said it is closing six of its 20 research facilities, reorganizing others, and cutting the jobs of roughly 15 percent of its scientists and support staff. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A Wall Street street sign is pictured in front of the American flag hanging on the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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Illustration: Reagan tax reform by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

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** FILE ** The new design of the $100 bill was unveiled at the Treasury Department in Washington on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The folks who print America's money did a high-tech makeover of the bill as part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)

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Sara Wade, an Illinois schoolteacher, is the sole breadwinner for son Dominic and daughter Genevieve, 10. She got divorced in 2004 and her former husband, a carpenter and contractor, hasn't been able to pay child support since January of 2009. April's strong employment growth showed women gained 86,000 jobs last month, far fewer than the 204,000 jobs gained by men, according to a Joint Economic Committee report. (Carrie Eccleston via Associated Press)

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Firefighters try to extinguish burning cars near to the Hadrian's Arch seen in the background, in Athens, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Greek fire officials say three people have died in a blaze at an Athens bank during rioting over government austerity measures. An estimated 100,000 people took to the streets Wednesday during a nationwide wave of strikes against spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has a word with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke as they testify before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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IN THE LINE OF FIRE: Office of Management and Budget chief Peter R. Orszag (left) and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner confer in March 2010 before testifying to a congressional panel. *FILE PHOTO* (Bloomberg News)

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** FILE ** Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, talks with NASA chief Charles Bolden before his testimony on NASA's fiscal 2011 budget in February. (AP Photo)

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Congressional aides stand under a monitor as Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gives his semiannual monetary report to the House Financial Service Committee in Washington on Feb. 24, 2010. Bernanke said the U.S. economy is in a "nascent" recovery that still requires low interest rates to encourage demand by consumers and businesses once federal stimulus expires. (Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg)