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Dodge County Election Commisioner Fred Mytty holds the unofficial results to a special election held Monday June 21, 2010, in Fremont, Neb. The election was for a proposal to ban hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants.(AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

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In this photo taken May 3, 2010, Andrew Baamonde, left, of SNI Companies, talks to job seeker Bruce Koninsburg, who has been without a job for three months, at the National Career Fair in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A majority of states saw their unemployment rates drop in May. But the widespread declines were mainly because people gave up work searches and were no longer counted.(AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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Electrical power lines are seen below storm clouds in a field near Newtown, Pa., on May 8, 2010. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that energy prices fell 1.5 percent in May, the biggest drop since a 2.2 percent decline in February. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanian lawmakers vote on procedures before a no-confidence vote in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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An elderly survivor holds a poster of Warren Anderson, the head of Union Carbide Corp. at the time of the gas leak, as she waits for the verdict in the premises of Bhopal court in Bhopal, India, on June 7, 2010. The court convicted seven former senior employees of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary of "death by negligence" for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy that left an estimated 15,000 people dead more than a quarter century ago in the world's worst industrial disaster. (Associated Press)

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Job seekers wait on line at a New York job fair in 2010. Social engineering through employer mandates "increases the cost of labor and discourages hiring," writes Logan Delany, Jr. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, a Detroit woman holds a Employment Guide standing in line while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) **FILE**

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**FILE** President Obama participates in an AARP town hall on health care on July 28, 2009, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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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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** 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** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill on June 2, 2009, before the House Health subcommittee hearing on health care reform. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Maureen Sanders looks for postings at the Employment Connection Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, in Parma, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: GOP Health Care by A. HUNTER for The Washington Times.

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** FILE ** Workers prepare planes at the Continental terminal at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland in October 2005. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)