Congress

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Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has taken Congress to task for its noncommittal approach to investing in the nation's aging infrastructure. Lawmakers have thus far rejected the Obama administration's efforts to pass a long-term improvement plan. (associated press)

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California State Sen. Ted Lieu, who is currently running for Congress, called on Fox News Host Bob Beckel to resign immediately after statements he made on "The Five" about Chinese people. (Fox News)

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Big Man in Congress: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has outsized control of deciding the fate of federal law. (Associated Press)

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President Obama will ask Congress for $2 billion to deal with the crisis that has seen thousands of unaccompanied children, mostly from Central America, illegally surge across the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, Pool)

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James Madison, the Father of the Constitution, warned that the "freedom of the people" is imperiled more by "gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.” (Library of Congress)

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This is an undated photo of Claudia Tenney provided by the Claudia Tenney for Congress campaign. The state assemblywoman is challenging incumbent Rep. Richard Hanna in the 22nd Congressional District Republican primary, Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The district covers Chenango, Cortland, Madison and Oneida counties and parts of Broome, Herkimer, Oswego and Tioga. (AP Photo/Claudia Tenney for Congress)

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During a commencement address to West Point cadets last month, Mr. Obama called on Congress to fund a new $5 billion counterterrorism plan to "train, build capacity and facilitate partner countries on the front lines" of the war on terror. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Zach Dasher, the nephew of "Duck Dynasty's" patriarch Phil Robertson, is running as a Republican for Congress in Louisiana's 5th district, he announced on Twitter Monday. (Zach Dasher via Twitter)