Politics

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Secretary of State John F. Kerry arrives at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one day after sealing a deal with Russia on securing Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles. Mr. Kerry made a stop in Jerusalem to brief Mr. Netanyahu on the agreement as well as discuss developments in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

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** FILE ** President Obama addresses the nation in a live televised speech from the East Room of the White House in Washington, Sept. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

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Two soldiers lay wounded after a mortar landed near them as the government troopers continue their assault at Muslim rebels who have taken scores of hostages and used them as human shields for the fifth straight day Friday Sept. 13, 2013 at Zamboanga city in southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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** FILE ** President Barack participates in a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia at the Esperanza Resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, June 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Obama meets with the Kuwait Amir Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept. 13, 2013. The visit by Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah comes as Obama and top aides are lobbying skeptical lawmakers to support using military force against Syria for a deadly chemical weapons attack the U.S. says was carried out by Syrian President Bashar Assad. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's non-voting member of Congress (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Gene Sperling, director of the Economic Council, stands on the South Lawn of the White House before President Obama observes a moment of silence on Sept. 11, 2013, as they mark the 12th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. (Associated Press)