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Senate Judiciary Committee members, from left, the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, committee Chairman Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, Sen. Herb Kohl, Wisconsin Democrat, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, listen to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, questions U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. Miss Kagan told senators that the framers of the Constitution anticipated it would be interpreted in light of changes in society, technology and the country at large. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, foreground. listens to questions from Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on video screen, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Kagan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Senate Judiciary Committee member Al Franken,Minnesota Democrat, sketches Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, the committee's ranking Republican, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 29, 2010, during the committee's confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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**FILE** President Obama meets with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 29, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (left) speaks as his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, looks on at a press conference following their meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, June 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Karl Rove (left) and Ed Gillespie helped create American Crossroads, an organization exempt from limits on campaign fundraising, and have secured pledges up to $30 million. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Former Enron executive Jeffrey Skilling (left) and his attorney, Dan Petrocelli, leave the courthouse in Houston after the verdict in his fraud and conspiracy trial on May 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
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Kwame Kilpatrick was indicted last week on federal fraud and tax charges, accused of turning a charity into a personal slush fund. The 40-year-old former mayor has been in state prison since May for violating probation in a criminal case tied to sexually explicit text messages and an affair with a top aide. (Associated Press)
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A Royal Canadian mounted police officer stands guard as Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, not seen, and his delegation arrives in Toronto, Canada, Thursday June 24, 2010 to attend the G8 and the G20 meetings. Cameron steps into a potential hornets' nest of trans-Atlantic conflict when he makes his global debut this week at the G-20 summit in Canada, with tensions over Afghanistan, Europe's debt crisis and the BP oil spill gaining in intensity. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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In this Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Center For Security Policy dinner at Union Station in Washington. Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday, June 25, 2010 after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)
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In this photo provided by the Department of Defense, former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld talks to members of the audience with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, right, at his side and flanked by both of Rumsfeld portraits during the unveiling ceremony of the second one at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Va. Friday June 25, 2010. Mr. Rumsfeld served as secretary of defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 and under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. (AP Photo/DOD, Cherie Cullen)
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** FILE ** In this May 21, 2010, photo, Rep. Barney Frank (left), Massachusetts Democrat, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, and Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who is Senate Banking Committee chairman, speak to reporters outside the White House after meeting with President Obama on banking-overhaul legislation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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President Obama walks across the tarmac with Chief of Protocol Robert William Peck, as he arrives at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Friday, June 25, 2010, for the G-8 and G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Obama walks toward the podium on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2010, to speak to members of the media before traveling to attend the G-20 summit in Canada. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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From left, National Security Adviser James Jones, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, listen to President Obama speak to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2010, before traveling to Canada to attend the G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2010, before departing to Canada to attend the G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner watches from the West Wing Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 25, 2010, as President Obama speaks to members of the media, prior to traveling to Canada to attend the G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Obama returns a salute prior to boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, June 25, 2010, prior to traveling to Canada for the G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, June 25, 2010, en route to Canada for the G-20 summit. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
