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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada speaks to media Tuesday on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

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Civil War re-enactors fire a 21-gun salute on Tuesday at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago in Charleston, S.C. (Associated Press)

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Muslim Brotherhood supporters alleging electoral fraud chant during a standoff with riot police outside a vote-counting center in Cairo in November. The Brotherhood has years of experience in contesting elections, giving it a leg up in post-Mubarak Egyptian politics. (Associated Press)

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Ernest Parks, a re-enactor from Company I, Massachusetts 54th Regiment, salutes after tossing a wreath into Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter (in background) on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, during the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. (AP Photo/Post and Courier, Wade Spees)

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Cannon blasts from Fort Johnson across Charleston Harbor toward Fort Sumter at daybreak on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, in Charleston, S.C., signal the commemoration of the start of the Civil War 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Post and Courier, Wade Spees)

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William Farley (second from left) fires a mortar at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)

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Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago, is viewed from Fort Johnson in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)

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Civil War re-enactors fire a 21-gun salute at Fort Johnson, near Fort Sumter, in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, to commemorate the moment the first shots of the Civil War were fired 150 years ago. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)

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** File ** At a Civil War reenactment event, a man holds a Confederate naval jack flag as he looks toward Fort Sumter from the Battery in downtown Charleston, S.C., on April 12, 2011, to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama poses April 8 for photographers in the Blue Room of the White House after speaking on the budget and potential government shutdown that was averted when Republican and Democratic lawmakers reached a deal. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan laborer works at the brick factory in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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** FILE ** In this image made from television, demonstrators march in Daraa, Syria, Friday, April 8, 2011. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Daraa on Friday, a city in the south of Syria that has become a flashpoint for anti-government demonstrations. (AP Photo)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A Capitol Police officer talks to D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray before he was arrested Monday for "impeding traffic" during a protest on Capitol Hill of the restrictions placed on the District as part of the federal budget deal. "D.C. deserves to be free," Mr. Gray said.