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Outgoing director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag after President Obama signed the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act in a ceremony at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama departs after signing the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act at the White House in Washington on July 22, 2010. UPI/Brendan Hoffman/Pool
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An undated photo provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows former USDA official Shirley Sherrod, who was fired this week after brief comments she made in a March speech were taken out of context. (AP Photo/United States Department of Agriculture)
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Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, sign documents handing the U.S. Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper to Iraqi control at a ceremony, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this July 15, 2010, file photo President Obama speaks to reporters outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Thursday, July 22, 2010, Mr. Obama signed into law the "Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act," which he said will reduce waste and fraud in government spending. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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In this July 21, 2010, photo, trader John Bowers uses his handheld device as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stock futures are barely off their highs of the morning after the government says weekly jobless claims jumped more than expected last week. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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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)
