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This video frame grab image provided by House Television shows House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reading the censure resolution as Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., not seen, stands in the well on the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. The House, for only the 23rd time invoked its most serious punishment short of expulsion on Rangel for financial and fundraising misconduct. (AP Photo/House Television)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., walks to the podium to speak to the media after he was censured by the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks to the media after he was censured by the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks to the media after he was censured by the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks to the media after he was censured by the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., speaks to the media after he was censured by the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., waves as he leaves after speaking to the media after he was censured by the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates (left) arrives Thursday to testify to the Senate Armed Services Committee about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays in the military. Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, is greeted by Sen. John McCain of Arizona (right), the panel's ranking Republican.

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Associated Press Former Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell will keynote a Northern Virginia Tea Party banquet on Tuesday.

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Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., listens to House ethics committee chairman Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., as she reads the punishment from the committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. The committee recommended censure for Rangel, suggesting that the New York Democrat suffer the embarrassment of standing before his colleagues while receiving an oral rebuke by the speaker for financial and fundraising misconduct. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)(AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)

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Then-Russian prime minister, now president, Vladimir Putin records a CNN interview with Larry King in Moscow in 2010. King will host a new talk show, "Politics With Larry King" for Russian TV network RT. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)

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** FILE ** President Obama talks with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. as they walk to the Blair House from the White House in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, for a meeting with newly elected governors. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

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** FILE ** Then Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott, center, attends a luncheon with White House administration officials, before President Barack Obama arrives, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, at the Blair House across from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Rhode Island Gov.-elect Lincoln Chafee is seen at the Blair House across from the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, before President Barack Obama spoke to newly elected governors. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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** FILE ** South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has a briefing with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Seoul on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, as the military was put on top alert after North Korea's artillery attack on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. (AP Photo/Yonhap, File)

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Former US President Bill Clinton, left, and Sunil Gulati, Chairman USA bid committee, right, look on after it was announced that Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA Soccer World Cup, in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Steffen Schmidt)

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Washington Mayor-elect Vincent Gray speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, following his luncheon meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva (right) in Bishkek on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010. The United States will reconsider its military presence in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan once it winds down its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014, Mrs. Clinton said. (AP Photo/Nina Gorshkova)

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, take their seats on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy hearing. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy. Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., is at center, the committee's ranking Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. is at right. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)