Politics

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In this image released by the White House, President Obama receives a briefing in the Situation Room of the White House on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. Taking part in the meeting are, clockwise from top; Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, U.S. Cost Guard Rear Adm. Peter Neffenger, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. (AP Photo/Pete Souza)

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, shakes hands with Defense Secretary Robert Gates before their meeting at the Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The United States announced Thursday it will resume cooperation with Indonesia's feared special forces after ties were severed more than a decade ago over human rights abuses committed by the commando unit. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

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North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun (center), surrounded by Vietnamese security staff, gets into a limousine to leave the main venue of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Hanoi on Thursday, July 22, 2010. The North Korea's top diplomat is on a damage-control mission this week at the Asian security meeting, pleading innocence in the sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and has been widely blamed on Pyongyang, an analyst said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam, Pool)

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A man presents flowers to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, after she signed a memorandum of understanding for U.S. support of HIV/AIDS programs in Vietnam, at Ngoc Lam Pagoda in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Thursday July, 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Julian Abram Wainwright, Pool)

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FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2005 file photo, North Koreans perform with scarves showing the colors of the North Korean flag near an image of the flag formed by tens of thousands of children holding up colored cards during the annual massive propaganda spectacle known as a "mass game" held in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea said Thursday, July 22, 2010 it will stage massive propaganda spectacles next month amid lingering tensions over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

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Associated Press photographs Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stands with Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, and other Congressional Black Caucus members after their meeting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to discuss the Shirley Sherrod case.

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Pakistani police officers guard the area where suicide bombers attacked a sacred Muslim shrine in Lahore on July 1, killing 45 people. The attacks on shrines has exposed a rift between Pakistan's two largest Islamic sects. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** The aircraft carrier USS George Washington arrives in Busan, South Korea, in July 2010 to take part in four days of joint naval exercises with South Korea. (Navy Visual News Service via Associated Press)

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A U.N. Command soldier keeps a watchful eye on a North Korean soldier peering in through a window as U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor briefs Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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President Obama gives credit to two Democrats, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, and Rep. Barney Frank (hand raised), after signing the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on Wednesday. The two lawmakers chair key finance committees. At left is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Associated Press)

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Visitors watch an Airbus SAS A400M military transport plane fly on the third day of the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. The Farnborough International Airshow is being held from July 19-25. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

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** FILE ** U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act at the Ronald Reagan Building, July 21, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Also pictured (L-R) are Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA). (UPI/Win McNamee/Pool)

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President Barack Obama greets Paul Volcker, Chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, after Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection financial reform bill at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama, left, points to Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., center, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., right, after signing the Dodd Frank-Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in a ceremony in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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U.S. President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act before (L-R) Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) at the Ronald Reagan Building July 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill is the strongest financial reform legislation since the Great Depression and also creates a consumer protection bureau that oversees banks on mortgage lending and credit card practices UPI/Win McNamee/Pool

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President Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama takes the stage before he signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. At right is Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, is at left. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama speaks before he signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. At left is Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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