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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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** FILE ** Bradley Birkenfeld, a whistle-blower in the tax evasion case against Swiss bank UBS AG, holds a news conference outside the Schuylkill County Federal Correctional Institution in Minersville, Pa., Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, before reporting to the federal prison. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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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** 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 ** Billionaire R. Allen Stanford is escorted into the federal courthouse in Houston on Thursday, June 25, 2009. Mr. Stanford faces federal charges that he ran a $7 billion scheme to defraud investors with his international banking empire. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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In this Feb. 22, 2010 photo, people walk by a Bath and Body Works at a shopping mall in Dallas. Retail sales post surprising 0.3 pct February increase raising hopes economy gaining momentum.(AP Photo/LM Otero)

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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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The dashboard on the new Sonata Hybrid displays not only gas levels, but economy and electric motor information at the New York International Auto Show in New York, Thursday, April 1, 2010. The Obama administration set tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks Thursday, April 1, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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

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** FILE ** In this April 16, 2008, photo, Janet L. Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, speaks about foreclosures to the Bay Area Council Outlook Conference in Alameda, Calif. President Obama on Thursday, April 29, 2010, named Ms. Yellen to be vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve and filled two other vacancies at the central bank whose decisions influence economic activity, employment and inflation. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

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** FILE ** In this Jan. 16, 2009 file photo, Citigroup headquarters is seen in New York. The Treasury Department said Thursday that it has raised $10.5 billion from Citigroup share sales, and that the bank has repaid $20 billion of the $45 billion it received from the federal government in 2008. (Photo/Richard Drew)

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** FILE ** Copies of President Obama's fiscal 2010 federal budget are seen at the White House in Washington on Thursday, May 7, 2009.

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** FILE ** The Total Port Arthur refinery is shown Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, in Port Arthur, Texas. Over the past several years, Total Petrochemical's sprawling oil refinery in southeast Texas has sprayed tons of sulfuric acid and carbon monoxide into the sky. The French company's 62-year-old facility has also released cancer-causing benzene, regularly surpassed allowable pollution limits, failed to report dozens of emissions and how much. Total is the most heavily fined polluter in Texas in the 2009 fiscal year, according to the year-end report summarizing how companies were punished in the state that produces the most industrial pollution. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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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 ** Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announces a financial reform package on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)