Politics

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Vice President Joe Biden looks on as President Barack Obama makes a statement on his proposed American Jobs Act legislation, Monday, Sept., 12, 2011, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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A crowd gathers for a rally in support of a state constitutional amendment recognizing marriage between a man and a woman as the only domestic legal union on Halifax Mall behind the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday. (Associated Press)

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Abdul Lawson (on ramp) and Ricky Layfield move crates of government files from the flooded Prince George's County Administration Building into a truck to be temporarily stored. The building is expected to reopen Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A pair of shoes and a mirror sit on the desk in an office cubicle at the administration building. Employees moved documents from the building for safekeeping. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A worker walks along large dehumidifying tubes (top) that were pulling the moisture out of the flooded Prince George's County Administration Building. The building is expected to reopen Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A worker labors in a hallway of the administration building in Prince George's County as large dehumidifying tubes do their work in drying out the building for an expected reopening on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Chuvit Kamolvisit's pose in a coffin during a news conference in 2005 was to signify that his old life as Thailand's "Massage Parlor King" was over. Now a member of parliament, he is rooting out police corruption. (Associated Press)

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Tony West, Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. (Associated Press)

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Protesters in Santiago, Chile, throw stones at police Sunday after a march marking the 38th anniversary of Chile's military coup. Police arrested 280 people and 45 people were injured, including a teenager who is in critical condition. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from Aug. 2, 2011, President Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (left), a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, thanks former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, formerly one of Mr. Romney's rivals in the White House race, for his endorsement during a news conference in North Charleston, S.C., on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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**FILE** In this photo from Sept. 6, 2011, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media in Ankara, Turkey. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., and others, holds up a copy of his American Jobs Act during a speech at the White House on Sept. 12, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Mohammad Ahmadian (left), deputy chief of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, exchanges documents with Alexander Glukhov of Russia's Atomstroyexport during a ceremony at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011. Iran's first nuclear power plant stepped up operations Monday after more than a decade of delays, pumping out electricity at up to 40 percent of capacity and marking a major step forward in the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Younes Khani)