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In this file photo, a rally participant holds up a pocket-sized copy of the U.S. Constitution during an anti-health-care-reform rally by The American Grassroots Coalition and The Tea Party Express on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Virginia Tech senior and resident adviser David Dorsett (left) visits with freshman and fellow Lee Hall dorm resident Matt Londrey. (Associated Press)

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This photo, also from the Imperial War Museum in London, shows a "defiant garden" that was planted in a crater in front of Westminster Cathedral in London during World War II. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, disputed dubbing the measure a "jobs bill," and said the money should instead be used for job training and summer jobs. March 4, 2010. (Associated Press) File

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** FILE ** Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, talks with NASA chief Charles Bolden before his testimony on NASA's fiscal 2011 budget in February. (AP Photo)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PRESSING THE FLESH: Pat Meehan, a one-time U.S. prosecutor, is one of the National Republican Congressional Committee's designated "Young Guns" - the NRCC's premier recruits. He is running for the House seat in Pennsylvania's 7th District, a swing district in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits a uranium-enrichment facility about 200 miles south of Iran's capital, Tehran, in April 2008. (Associated Press)

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A women kisses a portrait of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, as Russian communists and their supporters hold a rally to mark Defenders of the Fatherland Day in Moscow, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010. About 2,000 communists and their supporters, mostly elderly people, held an authorized rally in downtown Moscow. The Defenders of the Fatherland Day, celebrated in Russia on Feb. 23, honors the nation's military and is a nationwide holiday. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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** FILE ** President Obama gets a round of golf in with hospital executive Eric Whitaker during the president's vacation on Martha's Vineyard in Oak Bluffs, Mass., in August. Mr. Whitaker, whom he met years ago at Harvard, is one of the president's best friends. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Former Vice President Dick Cheney hugs his daughter Liz Cheney after she surprised the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by bringing him as her guest, on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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**FILE** A Somali Islamist militant patrols the streets of Mogadishu. Al-Shabab Islamic insurgents, with links to al Qaeda, last year looted two United Nations compounds in southern Somalia. The Somali capital sees almost daily attacks aimed at disrupting the weak government. (Associated Press)

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A Red Line train passes through the Farragut North Metro station in Washington. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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FILE PHOTOAssociated Press. Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York (left) and fellow Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland are pressing ahead with plans for legislation to counteract the Supreme Court's recent ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, which invalidated some federal campaign-finance laws.

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (shown here in this February 2010 file photo), New York Democrat, took sharp aim at Peter King, New York Republican, after the House failed to pass a bill that would have provided billions in aid to people sickened by the 9/11 World Trade Center dust. (Associated Press)