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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, left, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg listen as President Obama speaks about immigration reform, Thursday, July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama adjusts the collar of Mort Zuckerman, Chief Executive Officer of U.S. News and World Report, right, as Janet Murguia, President and CEO, National Council of La Raza, looks on, after Obama spoke about immigration reform, Thursday, July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, left, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg listen as President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform, Thursday, July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on immigration reform at American University in Washington on July 1, 2010. UPI/Dennis Brack/Pool

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President Barack Obama outlines the need for immigration policy overhaul during a speech at the American University School of International Service in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama is embraced by Rev. Al Sharpton after Obama spoke about immigration reform, Thursday, July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama arrives to speak about immigration, Thursday, July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama gestures while speaking about immigration reform, Thursday,July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama speaks about immigration reform, Thursday, July 1, 2010, at American University in Washington.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website "Odnoklassniki," or Classmates, shows a woman who journalists have identified as Anna Chapman. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. (AP Photo)

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Profits from sales of an "extremely limited edition" George Washington rye whiskey will benefit Mount Vernon's education programs. Photo by Russ Flint/Special to The Washington Times

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Another day of the political mess that is the Elian Gonzalez saga in Miami Florida. Still debate goes on between Elian supporters and INS. Here Elian supporters and Clinton bashers deal with summer like temps as they stand vigil near the temporary home of Elian, March 30, 2000. ( Sean Dougherty / The Washington Times )

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Another day of the political mess that is the Elian Gonzalez saga in Miami Florida. Still debate goes on between Elian supporters and INS. Elian plays on the swing set in his back yard Thursday, March 30, 2000. ( Sean Dougherty / The Washington Times )

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Monday outside Elian's house in Miami / ittle Havana. Gerado Barrios of Miami walks home with his portrait of Ronald Reagan as he leaves the area where Elian supporters have been hanging out, April 10, 2000. He said that Reagan was not afraid to fight communists. ( Sean Dougherty / The Washington Times )

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In this third of seven sequential photos, Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean, right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young boy, early Saturday morning, April 22, 2000, in Miami. Armed federal agents seized Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives before dawn Saturday, firing tear gas into an angry crowd as they left the scene with the weeping 6-year-old boy. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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The casket of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, is carried by a military honor guard funeral detail up the Senate steps during arrival ceremonies at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, July 1, 2010 in Washington. UPI/Bill O'Leary/POOL

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The hearse carrying the casket of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, arrives at the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, July 1, 2010. Mr. Byrd, who died Monday, June 28, 2010, at 92 and was the longest serving senator in history, will lie in repose in the Senate Chamber until he is moved to West Virginia later Thursday. UPI/Chris Kleponis

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat, greets staff members of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, as they wait for the arrival of his casket on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July, 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Bill O'Leary, Pool)

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The casket of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, is carried by an Honor Guard into the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, July 1, 2010. Mr. Byrd, who died Monday, June 28, 2010, at 92 and was the longest serving senator in history, will lie in repose in the Senate Chamber until he is moved to West Virginia later Thursday. UPI/Chris Kleponis

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Sen. Jay Rockefeller, West Virginia Democrat, left, and others, watch as the casket containing the remains of Sen. Robert C. Byrd, West Virginia Democrat, is carried up the Senate steps on Capitol hill in Washington, Thursday, July 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)