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Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden testifies in front of The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Ebola diagnosing mistakes as well as protecting healthcare workers in Dallas on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 16, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden testifies in front of The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Ebola diagnosing mistakes as well as protecting healthcare workers in Dallas on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden testifies in front of The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Ebola diagnosing mistakes as well as protecting healthcare workers in Dallas on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 16, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden testifies in front of The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Ebola diagnosing mistakes as well as protecting healthcare workers in Dallas on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 16, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Members of Dallas Fire-Rescue Department prepare to decontaminate common areas near the Dallas apartment of a second health care worker who has tested positive for Ebola. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that it is possible for health care workers to safely treat Ebola patients, but it is hard. In a new move, expert teams will be available to respond within hours to any new Ebola cases around the country. (Associated Press)
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In this Aug. 25, 2011, file photo, an Apple employee walks between Apple buildings at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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Meet a couple of the employees of the Cleaver Brothers Carnival at King's Dominion’s 2014 ‘Halloween Haunt’ in Doswell, Virginia. (Photograph by Jacquie Kubin / Special to The Washington Times)
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This undated file image shows the website for updated HealthCare,gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service. HealthCare.gov, the online portal for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law, has been revamped as its second enrollment season approaches. And other major provisions of the Affordable Care Act are taking effect for the first time. A look at website and program changes for consumers and taxpayers: Old: 76 screens to muddle through in insurance application. New: 16 screens _ for the basic application that most new customers will use. But about a third of those new customers are expected to have more complicated cases, and how they’ll fare remains to be seen. (AP Photo/file)
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This 2010 photo provided by tcu360.com, the yearbook of Texas Christian University, shows Nina Pham, 26, who became the first person to contract the disease within the United States. Records show that Pham and other health care workers wore protective gear, including gowns, gloves, masks and face shields and sometimes full-body suits when caring for Thomas Eric Duncan. (AP Photo/Courtesy of tcu360.com)
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Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks to supporters during a Florida for Crist campaign stop at Century Village in Boca Raton, Fla., Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, talks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Long before it opened its doors to the public last fall, California's health insurance exchange awarded a small contract to a business consultant, Leesa Tori, for her advice on designing a program to sell insurance to small companies The industry veteran was a friend and former co-worker of Peter Lee, the exchange's top executive. The seemingly minor deal would mark the beginning of a lucrative and far-reaching partnership between the new state agency and the boutique consulting company Tori formed last year, just as national health care reform took root across the U.S. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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Else Trinidad gets help from Omar Bonet of SRA international about information regarding ACA health insurance options in Paterson, NJ, Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/The Record of Bergen County, Viorel Florescu) (AP Photo/The Record, VIOREL FLORESCU)
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The History Presbyterian Church that was used by union forces as a hospital after the battle of Franklin.
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In 2012, Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a bill aimed at addressing concerns about private organization employees in the Teachers Retirement System, especially those who had not been teachers previously but used a state law to claim past employment service toward their pensions. (Associated Press)
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While the global economy has been a boon to Asia and lifted millions there from abject poverty, middle-class and poor Americans are seeing the exact reverse as wages stagnate and more work heads overseas. (associated press)
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Rep. Darrell Issa, questioned whether IRS employee Takisha McGee lost track of investigative records containing sensitive taxpayer information. - Associated Press
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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks to students, faculty and staff at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Biden is due to headline a Democratic campaign rally in Las Vegas, with a downtown appearance Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, to talk about raising the minimum wage. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson,File)
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A federal proposal -- hotly contested in early public comments -- would urge U.S. health care providers to discuss the benefits of circumcision with parents of newborns, boys and teens, as well as with adult males who are not circumcised. (AP Photo/Ben Jary)
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President Barack Obama speaks at Millennium Steel Service in Princeton, Ind., Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, to discuss the economy as part of Manufacturing Day. US employers added 248,000 jobs in September, a burst of hiring that helped drive down the unemployment rate to 5.9 percent, the lowest since July 2008. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
