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Palestinian Dia Awaja, 4, cleans a portrait of his late brother Ibrahim, killed during an Israeli army operation, atop a tent that makes up part of the makeshift structures that house the family in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 10, 2010. The Awajas are among thousands of families whose houses were destroyed during Israel's three-week military offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza, launched in December 2008 with the aim of halting Hamas rocket attacks. An Israeli forces bulldozer flattened the Awajas' house and as the family tried to flee, bullets hit father Kamal, mother Wafa, and 8-year-old son Ibrahim, who bled to death in the street. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Five month-old Palestinian girl Leyali Awaja sleeps in the makeshift structures that house her family as her siblings Omsyat and Hala eat their lunch, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday June 10, 2010. The Awajas are among thousands of families whose houses were destroyed during Israel's three-week military offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza, launched in December 2008 with the aim of halting Hamas rocket attacks. An Israeli forces bulldozer flattened the Awajas' house and as the family tried to flee, bullets hit Leyali's father Kamal, mother Wafa, and 8-year-old brother Ibrahim, who bled to death in the street. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Palestinian Wafa Awaja, 34, collects her family's laundry outside the tents that serve to house her family in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 10, 2010. The Awajas are among thousands of families whose houses were destroyed during Israel's three-week military offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza, launched in December 2008 with the aim of halting Hamas rocket attacks. An Israeli forces bulldozer flattened the Awajas' house and as the family tried to flee, bullets hit Wafa, her husband Kamal and their 8-year-old son Ibrahim, who bled to death in the street. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Palestinian siblings Dia Awaja, top right, 4, and Zikrayat, 2, climb on one of the tents that house their family in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, June 10, 2010. The Awajas are among thousands of families whose houses were destroyed during Israel's three-week military offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza, launched in December 2008 with the aim of halting Hamas rocket attacks. An Israeli forces bulldozer flattened the Awajas' house and as the family tried to flee, bullets hit the children's father Kamal, mother Wafa, and 8-year-old brother Ibrahim, who bled to death in the street. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Palestinian Kamal Awaja, left, plays with his five month-old daughter Leyali, as his wife, Wafa gestures outside the makeshift structures that house the family, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Wednesday June 16, 2010. The Awajas are among thousands of families whose houses were destroyed during Israel's three-week military offensive against Hamas-ruled Gaza, launched in December 2008 with the aim of halting Hamas rocket attacks. An Israeli forces bulldozer flattened the Awajas' house and as the family tried to flee, bullets hit Kamal, Wafa, and their 8-year-old son Ibrahim, who bled to death in the street. Ibrahim's picture decorates the tent bottom center. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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President Barack Obama steps out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to make an appeal for bipartisanship on his legislative agenda, in the Rose Garden. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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U.S. President Barack Obama holds a bi-partisan meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on July 27, 2010. House Minority Leader John Boehner (L), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (2nd L), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (not pictured) attended the meeting. UPI/Kristoffer Tripplaar/Pool
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U.S. President Barack Obama arrives to discuss his legislative agenda after meeting with bi-partisan Members of Congress in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on July 27, 2010. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to deliver remarks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner talks on his cell phone as he walks towards the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama makes an appeal for bipartisanship on his legislative agenda, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, while speaking in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Obama delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama walks from the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to deliver remarks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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In this July 17, 2009, file photo, Rep. Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. A House investigative committee announced Thursday, July 22, 2010, that it has charged Mr. Rangel, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, with multiple ethics violations. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Deborah Hersman presides at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigator Ruben Payan answers questions at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member Robert L. Sumwalt asks questions at a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at the NTSB in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) holds a meeting on the investigation findings and safety issues of the June 22, 2009 collision of two Washington Metrorail trains which killed nine and injured 52 people, Tuesday, July 27, 210, in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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**FILE** In this photo from June 19, 2009, President Obama delivers remarks at the Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference in Washington. Mr. Obama's once solid support among Hispanics is showing a few cracks, a troubling sign for Democrats desperate to get this critical constituency excited about helping the party hold onto Congress this fall. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Bell, Calif., Mayor Oscar Hernandez listens to public comments during a City Council meeting addressing city leaders' pay on July 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
