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A tattered flag flies over the Rayburn House office building. (Allison Shelley / The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Richard L. Trumka, president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations(Associated Press)
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Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Obama, and Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, made remarks and Obama lay a wreath during a ceremony at the Pentagon to honor the events of September 11, 2001. Thursday, September 11, 2009 ( Mary F. Calvert/ the Washington Times )
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"Taps" is played at Ground Zero during a 9/11 memorial ceremony on September 11, 2009 in New York City. Family of the victims, government officials and others gathered at the annual ceremony to remember the attacks that killed more than 2,700 people with the destruction of the World Trade Center, the crash at the Pentagon and United 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001. (Photo by Chang W. Lee-Pool/Getty Images)
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** FILE ** Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., holds up the Republicans version of a health care reform bill, standing with other republicans. (Allison Shelley / The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called Israel's plan to construct new housing units in West Bank settlements despite U.S. calls for a building freeze “completely unacceptable.” (Associated Press)
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Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean (Associated Press) **FILE**
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The motorcade of Senator Edward Kennedy crosses Memorial Bridge on route to Arlington National Cemetery where a burial service is held for the late Senator in Washington, D.C., Saturday, August 29, 2009. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
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The casket of Robert F. Kennedy is carried to the gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, June 8, 1968. The pallbearers are led by Kennedy's oldest son, Joseph. Ted Kennedy is second from left. (AP Photo/stf)
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Washington Mystics' Crystal Langhorne had 30 points and 13 rebounds to lead the Mystics to a 98-90 OT victory against the Atlanta Dream. (Getty Images)
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John Durham speaks to reporters in Connecticut in 2005 after the sentencing of former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland. Former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss the charges filed against him by special counsel John Durham, who is probing the Justice Department's actions in the early stages of the Trump-Russia collusion probe. (Associated Press/FILE)
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getty images Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology John Holdren. **FILE**
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getty images President Obama downplays the angry health care debate, telling conservative radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish on Thursday that "passing a big bill like this is always messy."
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** FILE ** Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton chats with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in the White House on Aug. 18, 2009. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, denied that President Obama was considering Mrs. Clinton as running mate in 2012 instead of Mr. Biden.
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** FILE ** Sen. Jim Webb, Virginia Democrat, addresses a press conference at a hotel in Bangkok after his return from Myanmar in August 2009.
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Top Obama White House economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers (Getty Images/File)
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** FILE ** President Obama introduces his nominee for surgeon general, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin of Alabama, in the White House Rose Garden in 2009.
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President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to acclaimed tennis player Billie Jean King during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House, Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Among the honorees are theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the late Harvey Milk, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and actor Sidney Poitier. (Allison Shelley / The Washington Times)
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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -In this file photo, masked Hamas militants march during a demonstration supporting Hamas' Spiritual Leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on January 16, 2004, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza Strip towns and refugee camps after the Israeli deputy defense minister stated that "Yassin is marked for death" following a suicide bombing that killed three Israeli soldiers and a security officer in Gaza. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)
