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White House press secretary Jay Carney gives the daily press briefing on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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**FILE** Sen. Jon Tester, Montana Democrat, speaks at the state Capitol in Helena on Oct. 2, 2012, while campaigning with help from fellow Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia. (Associated Press)

The flags surrounding the Washington Monument fly at half-staff as ordered by President Barack Obama following the deadly shooting Monday at the Washington Navy Yard, Tuesday morning, Sept. 17, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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A protester demonstrating against the U.S. immigration policy is arrested after handcuffing himself to the fence in front of the White House on Sept. 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Democratic mayoral hopeful Bill de Blasio (center) speaks to reporters as City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (second from right) stands next to him during a news conference on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, on the steps of City Hall in New York. Ms. Quinn endorsed Mr. de Blasio for mayor. He will face Republican nominee Joe Lhota in the Nov. 5 general election. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, and other House GOP leaders emerge from a closed-door strategy session at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2013. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, follows Mr. Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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**FILE** Demonstrators rally in front of the White House in Washington on July 24, 2013, calling for immigration reform. The demonstrators urged President Obama to use executive authority to expand the policy that allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children to remain. (Associated Press)

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President Obama pauses as he speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the White House complex on Monday, Sept. 16, 2013, in Washington. Before speaking about the economy, Mr. Obama spoke on the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, mourning what he called "yet another mass shooting" that he said took the life of American patriots. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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This undated photograph, contains one of a series of note cards listing the talking points the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote for a speech he gave to his congregation at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The note cards are among the items Maude Ballou, a personal secretary from 1955 to 1960 for King, collected during her tenure with the civil rights icon, and will be auctioned off Oct. 17 in New York. (AP Photo/Heritage Auctions, HO)