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** FILE ** Then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefs reporters regarding the sequester on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Syrian security agents carry a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. A car bomb exploded near the headquarters of the ruling Baath party and the Russian Embassy, eyewitnesses and opposition activists said. (Associated Press/SANA)
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A masked Palestinian throws back a gas canister during a protest to support Palestinian prisoners, outside Ofer, an Israeli military prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Secretary of State John Kerry shown kite surfing off Nantucket when the former senator was a presidential candidate in 2004. (AP photo)
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Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney poses with money during a playful photoshoot with Bain Capital partners in the 1980s. (Credit: Boston Globe)
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President Obama speaks on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the White House about the sequester as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts. (Associated Press)
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Canada's national defense minister Peter Gordon MacKay, right, talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, at the start of a two-day NATO defense ministers meeting to discuss Syria and Afghanistan, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)
