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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, accompanied by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (left), Washington Republican, and other members of House GOP leadership, gestures as he speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, arrives to speak to reporters after House Republicans voted for their leadership for the next session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, is pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, following a closed-door meeting with House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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With the presidential seal in the background, President Obama pauses in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, where he spoke about how middle-class Americans would see their taxes go up if Congress fails to act to extend tax cuts. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner enters the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Mr. Geithner is meeting with House and Senate leaders to discuss the looming "fiscal cliff." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Smoke rises on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, from the Hamas government building known as Abu Khadra, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two days earlier in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. In Israel, a poll showed that about half of Israelis think their government should have continued its military offensive against Hamas. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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Protesters shout anti-Israeli slogans during a protest outside the Israeli Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Palestinians, along with other members of Romania's Muslim community, staged a protest against the latest Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Palestinian Hamas militants carry the covered body of Nidal Hassan during funerals for five Hamas members in Mugharka, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. The five were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building belonging to the Abu Kamil family the previous day, Palestinian health officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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A Palestinian woman walks past graffiti depicting the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Palestinian officials say Arafat's remains will be exhumed on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, to enable foreign experts to take samples as part of a probe into his death. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press about the Palestinian bid before the United Nations during a visit to an exhibition marking 35 years since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel, at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at U.N. headquarters on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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A Palestinian child holds a Kalashnikov weapon from a Hamas member (not pictured) during the funeral of Hamas member Joudeh Shamallah in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012. According to family members, Shamallah was badly injured during the latest Israeli-Hamas fight and died from wounds Saturday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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An Israeli soldier (left) hugs a comrade (center) to congratulate him for his birthday at a staging area near the Israel-Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Palestinians hold pictures of President Mahmoud Abbas and wave flags during a rally supporting the Palestinian U.N. bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Bratslav Hasidic sect who gathered to show support for Israeli forces, dance atop a tank in southern Israel, close to the Israel-Gaza Strip border, on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took effect Wednesday night, bringing an end to eight days of the fiercest fighting in years and possibly signaling a new era of relations between the bitter enemies. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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A girl with the Palestinian flag painted on her face attends a rally supporting the Palestinian U.N. bid for observer state status, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Palestinians are certain to win U.N. recognition as a state on Thursday, but success could exact a high price: delaying an independent state of Palestine because of Israel's vehement opposition. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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Smoke rises on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, from the Hamas government building known as Abu Khadra, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike two days before in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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An Egyptian flashes the victory sign during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012. More than 200,000 people protested against Egypt's Islamist president in a powerful show of strength by the opposition, who demanded that President Mohammed Morsi revoke edicts granting himself near-autocratic powers. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
