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Arriving at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, for a meeting with President Obama are (from left) BP PLC CEO Tony Hayward, BP America President and Chairman Lamar McKay, BP General Counsel Rupert Bondy and BP Managing Director Bob Dudley. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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This photo provided by the Marion County Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows Lee Bentley Farkas. A federal grand jury has indicted Farkas for allegedly engaging in a fraud scheme that misappropriated $1 billion from the government's Troubled Assets Relief Program and other targets. (AP Photo/Marion County Sheriff's Office)
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This photo provided by the Marion County Sheriff's Office, Fla., shows Lee Bentley Farkas. A federal grand jury has indicted Farkas for allegedly engaging in a fraud scheme that misappropriated $1 billion from the government's Troubled Assets Relief Program and other targets. (AP Photo/Marion County Sheriff's Office)
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In this publicity image released by HBO, Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan, subject of the documentary "For Neda," is shown. Ms. Soltan, 27, an Iranian music student, was gunned down during an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, on June 20, 2009. (AP Photo/HBO, Caspian Makan)
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BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward (left), BP America chief Lamar McKay (second from right) and other BP executives arrive at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, for a meeting with President Obama. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Demonstrating against Israel's closure of Gaza, Palestinians, some with national flags, stage a weekly protest near the Israeli border (background) in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, on Tuesday June 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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** FILE ** This undated file photo provided by Gordon Howie for Governor campaign on May 7, 2010, shows state Sen. Gordon Howie of Rapid City, S.D. Howie is one of five Republican gubernatorial candidates running in the primary election Tuesday June 8, 2010. If none of the five Republicans can get 35 percent of the primary votes, the top two finishers will face off in a runoff election on June 29. (AP Photo)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele (right) greets his old boss, former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., at a June 2010 fundraising dinner in Linthicum, Md. The RNC launched a new website on Tuesday, June 22, 2010, mocking President Obama's Chicago-style politics.
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Associated Press Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, was canceled as a fundraiser speaker for a House candidate in Colorado after his remarks on a radio talk show.
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Kyrgyz military vehicles roll through the central square of the southern city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, on Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Rioting has killed at least several hundred people in this Central Asian nation, the Red Cross said Tuesday, as new reports strengthened suspicions that the violence was ignited deliberately to undermine the interim government. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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A Romanian woman holds up her bloodied hand after being injured in scuffles with riot police outside the parliament building, during protests in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian protesters hold up impaled effigies depicting the country's president and government members during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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A protester steps on an effigy depicting Romanian President Traian Basescu during a protest in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanian lawmakers vote on procedures before a no-confidence vote in Bucharest Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested Tuesday outside parliament against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Romanians scuffle with riot police outside the parliament building in Bucharest during protests Tuesday, June 15, 2010. Thousands of angry Romanians protested against salary and pension cuts as the legislature started debating a no-confidence motion in the government. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks in this image taken from TV in the Houses of Parliament in London Tuesday June 15, 2010 about Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings in Londonderry Northern Ireland in 1972. Cameron apologized on behalf of his country for the death of 13 Catholic demonstrators in Londonderry, an outrage that became known as "Bloody Sunday." (AP Photo/PA)
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President Obama, accompanied by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, left, and National Incident Commander Adm. Thad Allen, meets with local officials on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, as they visited the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. White House energy and climate adviser Carol Browner is at right. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama greets military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, after his visit to the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama speaks to military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, after his visit to the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama speaks to military personnel at Naval Air Station Pensacola's Naval Air Technical Training Center in Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday, June 15, 2010, after his visit to the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
