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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (left), Michigan Democrat, and Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican, talk on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 17, 2013, before a hearing with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. A letter addressed to Wicker, believed to be poisoned with ricin or a similarly toxic substance, was intercepted at a mail facility outside the capital earlier in the week. Levin issued a statement saying an aide in his Saginaw, Mich., office had also received a suspicious-looking letter. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., waits for an elevator on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, after speaking about gun legislation on the Senate floor. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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**FILE** U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., New Jersey Democrat, speaks at a news conference on Jan. 23, 2012 in Trenton, N.J. about plans to legalize sports betting in New Jersey. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama greets Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 25, 2011, before the president delivered his State of the Union address. (Associated Press)
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pauses before speaking after losing a vote on gun legislation on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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A former Yemeni prisoner at the Bagram prison in Afghanistan, dressed in an orange prison uniform, protests in front of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, to demand the release of Yemeni detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
