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A bipartisan group of senators including (from the left) Susan M. Collins, Scott Brown, Joe Lieberman and Thomas R. Carper explain their bill to provide savings for the U.S. Postal Service, which would be used for employee buyouts, and delay for two years the proposed elimination of home delivery on Saturdays. (Associated Press)

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Tyrone Thomas of Suitland, Md, and member of Ironworkers Local 5 walks past the U.S. flag as he and others wait for President Barack Obama's arrival and remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Obama shakes hands with people in a crowd that included ironworkers and steamfitters after he offered remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Laphonsor Price of Bowie, Md, and a member of Steamfitters Local 602, chats with reporters as he and others wait for President Barack Obama's arrival and remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama offers remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Tyrone Thomas of Suitland, Md, and member of Ironworkers Local 5 walks past the U.S. flag as he and others wait for President Barack Obama's arrival and remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Obama waves goodbye to a crowd that included ironworkers and steamfitters following his speech urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. If he is re-elected next year, he would break a long history of losses by incumbents who had an approval rating below 50 percent a year before voters go to the polls. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with people in the crowd who came to see him, after he offered remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A protester sleeps under a blanket at the Occupy Oakland encampment Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, in Oakland, Calif. Oakland is bracing for Wednesday's citywide general strike, a hastily planned and ambitious action called by Occupy protesters a day after police forcibly removed their City Hall encampment last week. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Alexei Morozov (right), a member of the technical commission of Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee, speaks during news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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** FILE ** This is a Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, file photo of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as he leaves Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

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"I'm ready to start writing it now," biographer Robert A. Caro says of a planned fifth book on the life of Lyndon B. Johnson. (Associated Press)

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"We can pay this money, but we need to know why we have to," Chinese artist Ai Weiwei says Tuesday of China's demand for $2.4 million in back taxes and fines from the dissident, who was detained for nearly three months earlier this year. "We cannot just unwittingly hand over a sum of money." (Kyodo News via the Associated Press)

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Crockett Keller prepares his merchandise at a gun show at the fairgrounds in Fredericksburg, Texas on Friday Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel)

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Specialists Jennifer Klesaris and William Bott (right center) work at a post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 1, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President-elect Almazbek Atambayev speaks to the press in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Vladimir voronin)

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**FILE** People demonstrate in favor of the National Transitional Council in the main square of Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 3, 2011. (Associated Press)

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An Occupy DC protester, who did not want to be identified, paints a sign Monday among the tents in McPherson Square. Signs of Halloween, too, were evident at the encampment, but theatrics were kept low key. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld must be looking forward to American Spectator's Robert L. Bartley Dinner on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Pedro Pablo Oliva's painting titled "El Gran Abuelo (The Great Grandfather)" depicts Fidel Castro. Though the artist proclaimed his loyalty to the revolution, he was abruptly expelled as a delegate to a regional assembly and accused by his parliamentary colleagues of counterrevolutionary behavior after criticizing the regime's treatment of dissidents. (Associated Press)