Politics

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President Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Feb. 5, 2013. The president asked Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1. (Associated Press)

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President Obama pauses while speaking in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 5, 2013. The president will ask Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across the board cuts that are scheduled to kick in March 1. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama discusses the continuing budget talks in the briefing room of the White House on July 19, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Sen. Dianne Feinstein (right), California Democrat and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, meets with CIA Director-nominee John Brennan (left), currently assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Reps. Lamar Smith (from left), Sheila Jackson Lee and Luis V. Gutierrez greet Rep. Joaquin Castro (second from right) and his twin brother, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, who arrives to testify at a hearing on immigration before the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013. The hearing is the first on immigration for either chamber in the 113th Congress. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Leaders of Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, and activists demonstrate in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. The party demanded the scrapping of the International War Crimes tribunal in which top Jamaat leaders are facing trials on charges of crimes against humanity during the 1971 war of independence. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)