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Lt. j.g. Jennifer Noonan, assigned to the Blue crew of the ballistic missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741), receives her submarine warfare officer device from former shipmate Lt. Jason Brethauer during a Dec. 5, 2012, ceremony at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor, Wash. Noonan is one of three Sailors to become the first female unrestricted line officers to qualify in submarines. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist Ahron Arendes/U.S. Navy)

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Sen. Jim DeMint speaks to the Values Voter Summit, sponsored by the Family Research Council, on Sept. 17, 2010, in Washington. With his hefty campaign account and staunch conservatism, Mr. DeMint has used the midterm elections to vault from first-term U.S. senator to rainmaker of the nation's tea party. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, arrives on Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington for a closed-door meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11 assault on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and others embassy staff were killed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, is interviewed on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Sens. Lindsey Graham (right) and Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republicans, prepare to watch the CBS News/National Journal foreign policy debate at the Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg, S.C., on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro)

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Sen. Jim DeMint (at the podium), accompanied by Sen. Rand Paul, addresses a tea party Continuing Revolution Rally on Thursday, March 31, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks at a news conference on the budget on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 17, 2011, as Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, listens. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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** FILE ** Then-Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi (right) and U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, meet in Baghdad on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005. A delegation of visiting U.S. senators and representatives met with Mr. Allawi, though no statement was made to the media. (AP Photo/Karim Sahib, Pool)

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U.S. Senator-elect Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, takes the stage with his wife, Debbie, on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, at the Adams Mark Hotel in Columbia, S.C. Mr. DeMint defeated Democrat Inez Tenebaum. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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Rep. Jim DeMint hugs his wife, Debbie, as their daughter Donna looks on after Mr. DeMint won the U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff by defeating former Gov. David Beasley on Tuesday, June 22, 2004, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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Sen. Jim DeMint, a member of the Senate Banking Committee and the Joint Economic Committee, leads other Republican senators on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, in a call to bypass the July Fourth holiday recess to stay in town to work on the debt crisis. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Vice President Dick Cheney waves to the crowd with Rep. Jim DeMint (right), South Carolina Republican, at a fundraising dinner for Mr. DeMint's senatorial race at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center on Friday, July 23, 2004, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (AP Photo/Willis Glassgow)

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An Egyptian army tank securing the perimeter of the presidential palace in Cairo is seen behind barbed wire Dec. 6, 2012, while protesters on the other side chant slogans against President Mohammed Morsi. The Egyptian army deployed tanks and gave both supporters and opponents of Mohammed Morsi a deadline to leave the area outside the presidential palace following fierce street battles that left several people dead and hundreds injured. (Associated Press)

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An Egyptian Army officer detains a man who was attacked by protesters gathering near the presidential palace in Cairo, while the army deploys to secure the site of overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi on Dec. 6, 2012. The Egyptian army has deployed tanks outside the presidential palace in Cairo following clashes between supporters and opponents of Morsi that left several people dead and hundreds wounded. (Associated Press)

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Army soldiers install barbed wire Dec. 6, 2012, near the presidential palace in Cairo to secure the site of overnight clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi, as supporters of Morsi pray. The Egyptian army has deployed tanks outside the presidential palace in Cairo following clashes between supporters and opponents of Morsi that left several people dead and hundreds wounded. (Associated Press)