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President Obama (second from left) speaks about a settlement with the nation's five largest banks over foreclosures on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in Washington. With the president are North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper (left), Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (second from right) and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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William Temple waves a three cornered hat for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) while he speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 9, 2012. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 9, 2012. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 9, 2012. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 9, 2012. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 9, 2012. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Albrecht Gero Muth has often donned a military costume and claimed to be a secret agent and Iraqi army general. Mr. Muth, 47, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife, Viola Herms Drath. (Mai Photo News Agency)
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** FILE ** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, discusses the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks Feb. 9, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in D.C. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is running for his former job as president, addresses a conference of the Union of Industrialists in Moscow on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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**FILE** President Obama speaks Sept. 23, 2011, about No Child Left Behind Reform at the White House. (Associated Press)
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Employees of the electricity utility Public Power Corp. shout slogans in front of the Greek Parliament on Syntagma Square in Athens to protest the Greek government's plans to privatize part of the power distribution service. The banner reads, ''We resist.'' (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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An injured Syrian rebel fighter is carried into a hospital following an exchange of fire with government troops in Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. (AP Photo)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to attract voters more interested in social issues before Tuesday's contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado. He failed to win any of the three. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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"We have rules about tax credits and benefits, and it seems to me they need to be applied fairly and across the board," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat. "If there are rules, they need to be enforced. I think it's just that simple. I don't think it's complicated." (Associated Press)
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Archie Fool Bear, of Fort Yates, N.D., a former Standing Rock Sioux tribal council member, carries a box of petitions into the North Dakota Secretary of State's Office in Bismarck, N.D., on Tuesday. The petitions call for a vote on keeping the state university's Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. (Associated Press)
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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a Republican presidential candidate, is prayed over after speaking at the Bella Donna Chapel in McKinney, Texas, on Wednesday. Mr. Santorum won Republican caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a nonbinding primary in Missouri on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, says President Obama must be ousted in the next election because of government overreach, such as in higher education. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
