Politics

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** FILE ** Sen. Marco Rubio, once a darling of the tea party movement, has dismayed many of the people who helped put him in office with his immigration reform bill. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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The U.S. Marine Corps band celebrates its 215th birthday this week. It is proud of its nickname, "The President's Own." (United States Marine Band)

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"Imagine beginning every month not knowing what money you have and not being able to track how much you've spent. Yet year after year, that's where the federal government operates."

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**FILE** The Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. Security specialists say with diplomats residing in more well-guarded parts of cities, intelligence is likely to decline. (Associated Press)

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Abdul Rahman Alharbi, once considered a suspect in the Boston Marathon terror attack, is reportedly seen at the White House in this image posted on Twitter. The Blaze reports that an account seemingly belonging to his father attests that he was at an Independence Day event. (Twitter)

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**FILE** Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel listens during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 26, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. right, accompanied by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., gestures as he speaks with reporters on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 9, 2013, about student loan rates following a Republican strategy session. Interest rates doubled to 6.8 percent last week because Congress didn't avert a rate hike built into the law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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**FILE** Rep. Peter Roskam, Illinois Republican, questions ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, on Capitol Hill, in Washington on May 17, 2013, as they testify during a hearing at the House Ways and Means Committee on the Internal Revenue Service practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Delegate Eni Faleomavaega (left), a non-voting congressman from the American Samoa, speaks during a joint press conference with Indonesian legislator Theo Sambuaga (right) in Jakarta, Indonesia, on July 4, 2007. (Associated Press)