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Associated Press Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said he supports holding hearings on the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to those born in the U.S.
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Rep. Roy Blunt votes in the Missouri primary election at Glenstone Baptist Church in Springfield, Mo., on Tuesday. Mr. Blunt is the heavy Republican favorite to win his party's nomination to replace retiring Sen. Christopher S. Bond in November's general election. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** Bristol Palin, daughter of then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and Levi Johnston attend the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in 2008. Miss Palin and Mr. Johnston have called off their second engagement after he told her he may have fathered a baby with another girl. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
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HARPERCOLLINS Sarah Palin gets a bad rap because "she is everything that her critics are not, and as a result, they attack."
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Mike Lazaridis, president and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Research In Motion, talks about his company's new BlackBerry Torch, in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Pakistani para military troops gather near a vehicle set on fire by angry mob following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement in Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Gunmen killed dozens of people in Pakistan's largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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An Israeli tank maneuvers near the site of an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between Israel and Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Israeli soldiers came under fire Tuesday during a routine patrol along the Lebanese border, the army said, sparking the most intense clashes with forces inside Lebanon since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An Israeli soldier cleans a weapon as he stands near the site of an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between Israel and Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Israeli soldiers came under fire Tuesday during a routine patrol along the Lebanese border, the army said, sparking the most intense clashes with forces inside Lebanon since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Smoke rises from the southern border village of Adaisseh after an exchange of fire between Israeli and Lebanese troops along the border between Israel and Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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A Lebanese soldier holds his rifle as Israeli troops patrol the border in the southern village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the disputed border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ronith Daher)
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UNIFIL peacekeepers gesture as Israeli troops patrol the border in the southern village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the disputed border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ronith Daher)
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A U.N. peacekeeper waves a U.N. flag as Israeli troops patrol the border in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. A senior Israeli officer, two Lebanese soldiers and a journalist. were killed in the clashes. Tuesday's fighting was the most serious since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Ronith Daher)
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Members of the Shreveport Fire Department and deputies from the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office work the scene at Charles and Marie Hamel Memorial Park in Shreveport, La., on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, in search of teens who drowned while swimming in the Red River late Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Shreveport Times, Henrietta Wildsmith)
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Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, 2nd right, is accompanied by his son Bilawal, striped shirt, and daughter, Asifa, left, when they arrived at London's Heathrow Airport , Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Flood-stricken Pakistanis wait outside a relief center to get food supply on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Relief work for some 3.2 million people has been delayed by swamped roads, washed-out bridges and downed communication lines, and survivors have complained about government inaction. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, center, speaks at a press conference held to address the reopening of commercial fishing areas along the Louisiana coast behind a chest of shrimp caught this morning in Dixon Bay in Venice, La., Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Standing behind Jindal are St. Bernard Parish president Craig Taffaro, left, Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries secretary Robert Barham and Plaquemines Parish president Billy Nungesser. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Rick Lazio, Republican candidate for governor of New York, speaks to reporters about his opposition to a proposal to build a mosque near the site of the World Trade Center during a Landmarks Commission hearing, Tuesday, July 13, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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A Lebanese soldier holds his rifle as Israeli troops patrol the border fence in the southern border village of Adaisseh, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Lebanon and Israeli troops exchanged fire on the border Tuesday in the most serious clashes since a fierce war four years ago. (AP Photo/Lutfallah Daher)
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In this June 30, 2010, file photo, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination. A confirmation vote is all but assured for Ms. Kagan as the Senate begins debate on making her the fourth female justice. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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A vehicle burns after being set on fire by protesters following the killing of a local leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. More than 40 people were killed in revenge attacks. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
