Politics

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Former President Bill Clinton swore in newly minted New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, accompanied by Hillary Rodham Clinton who sported a snappy new hairdo. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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A cool treat: White House officials allow the press to watch as President Obama takes family and friends out for shaved ice on New Year's Eve.

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** FILE ** In this Dec. 11, 2013, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Signs direct to the office of the Firearms Registration Unit at the District's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters, Washington, D.C., Thursday, January 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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"[T]he NRA and their acolytes underestimate our residents if they think this city will tolerate autocratic rule from Congress," said Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, District Democrat, in response to a bill that would do away with D.C.'s ban on semiautomatic rifles and gut other gun restrictions. (ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS)

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Signs directing to the office of the Firearms Registration Unit at the District's Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., are seen here Jan. 2, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) **FILE**