Social Issues

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Sen. James E. Risch, Idaho Republican (left) and Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, listen to testimony from Secretary of State John F. Kerry. Mr. Risch said that he was reluctant partly because of "where this is going to go, as to the limit that we're going to put on it."

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Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine wave their red flags in Rafah Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip, on Sept. 3, 2013, while holding Syrian flags and pictures of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a protest against a possible military attack by the United States on Syria, . Arabic on placards reads, "America and France are the enemies of the Arab nations, greetings from Gaza to the master of the Lebanese resistance, the leader Hassan Nasrallah and greetings to the Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian resistance." (Associated Press)

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President Obama, flanked by House Speaker John Boehner (left), Ohio Republican, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, speaks to media in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Sept. 3, 2013, before a meeting with members of Congress to discuss the situation in Syria. (Associated Press)

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Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel (2) scrambles for yards during the third quarter of an NCAA college football game against Rice, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013, in College Station, Texas. Manziel missed the first half due to an NCAA suspension. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Christina Condori joins a crowd of low-income fast food workers and their supporters in protest on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, while picketing outside of the McDonald's restaurant in Memphis, Tenn. (AP Photo/The Commercial Appeal, Jim Weber)

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Members of the Greek Communist Party march with flags, in front of the Parliament in Athens during an protest against any military action by the U.S. and its allies against Syria, on Thursday Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)

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Demonstrators hold a mock California state flag as students and others protest the California Supreme Court's upholding of Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriages, in a march and rally from the UCLA campus to the West Los Angeles Federal Building on May 26, 2009. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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**FILE** John Lewis (left) and Stuart Gaffney embrace outside San Francisco's City Hall shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California on June 26, 2013. The justices issued two 5-4 rulings in their final session of the term. One decision wiped away part of a federal anti-gay marriage law that has kept legally married same-sex couples from receiving tax, health and pension benefits. The other was a technical legal ruling that said nothing at all about same-sex marriage, but left in place a trial court's declaration that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. (Associated Press)