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ALMOST EYE TO EYE: Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin (left), Illinois Democrat, and Minority Whip Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, discuss lame-duck legislation issues Sunday on "Face the Nation." (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, is optimistic about reaching agreement with the Democrats about extending the Bush-era tax cuts. "I'm optimistic it'll come together," he said Sunday. "It's pretty clear taxes are not going up on anybody in the middle of this recession." (Associated Press)
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"We've got to have the leaders of the House and the Senate, Republican and Democrat, and the president or his representatives at the table," said Sen. Kent Conrad. (Associated Press)
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An ICE agent emerges from a drug-smuggling tunnel in San Diego. Agents found two major Mexico-border tunnels last month and seized about 50 tons of marijuana. (Associated Press)
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Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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A special select committee set up by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, in 2007 was used as a vehicle to promote "cap-and-trade" legislation for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. (Associated Press)
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South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin (second from right) talks with South Korean soldiers during a visit to a military base in the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010, in Paju, South Korea. (AP Photo/Yonhap)
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** FILE ** A member of the Egyptian opposition Wafd Party holds up what was claimed to be one of a number of ballots found dumped in the street and not counted in last Sunday's parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Kennedy Center honoree Oprah Winfrey and her longtime beau, Stedman Graham, pose on the red carpet on arrival at the State Department in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with Kennedy Center honorees (from second from left) Jerry Herman, Merle Haggard, Bill T. Jones and Paul McCartney while waiting for Oprah Whitney to arrive for a group photo after a dinner at the State Department in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Anti-government protesters shout slogans and hold signs during a rally against the South Korean government's policies and financial plans on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2010, in Seoul. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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President Barack Obama, together with U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, left, and Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman, right, makes a statement about the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Republican Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., arrives for a rare Saturday lame duck session of the U.S. Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. The Senate agenda features a pair of votes: one on a proposal to extend all expiring tax cuts on individuals with incomes of less than $200,000 a year and married couples making less than $250,000; the other to renew them for all tax filers with incomes of less than $1 million. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks to a reporter on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., left and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Friday, Dec. 3, 2010, to discuss proposals to continue the Bush era tax cuts. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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President Barack Obama waves as he is introduced to the troops at a rally during an unannounced visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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A woman walks over a bridge on the snow-covered palace grounds of Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)
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President Barack Obama is greeted by NATO Commander in Afghanistan Gen. David Petraeus, left, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry, center, after stepping off Air Force One during an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan on Friday, Dec. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
