Politics

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“Look back at the last election. We are losing, dramatically, the Hispanic vote, which we think should be ours for a variety of reasons,” says Republican Sen. John McCain. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, was leaned on by Speaker John A. Boehner to persuade GOP lawmakers to temporarily back off the spending cuts they had asked for in any increase to the debt ceiling. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein seeks to reimpose weapons bans that expired in 2004. The California Democrat’s current bill would go further than her 1994 law, which was sunsetted. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Jan. 25, 2013, file image taken from video and provided by CBS, President Barack Obama, center, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speak with ”60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft, left, in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington. The interview aired Sunday, Jan. 27, during the “60 Minutes” telecast on CBS. (AP Photo/CBS, File)

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in the parliament in Tehran on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Milwaukee County, Wis., Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. rides his horse during the Mexican Independence Day Parade in Milwaukee in 2010. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, John Klein) ** FILE **

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Workers of the Entekhab Industrial Group chant slogans as they hold a poster showing Iran's late revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Khomeini (left), and the current supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a protest in front of the South Korean Embassy in Tehran on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)