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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (left) talks with Texas state Sen. John Whitmire, Houston Democrat, in the Senate Chambers in Austin on July 11, 2013. A Senate committee pushed through new abortion restrictions, setting up a Senate vote before the weekend to send it to Gov. Rick Perry. The bill would require doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, only allow abortions in surgical centers, dictate when abortion pills are taken and ban abortions after 20 weeks. (Associated Press)
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Greenpeace protesters climb up the Shard, the tallest building in Western Europe, on Thursday, July 11, 2013, in London during a protest against drilling in the Arctic by Royal Dutch Shell. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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This courtroom sketch depicts Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev standing with his lawyer Miriam Conrad, left, before Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler, right, during his arraignment in federal court Wednesday, July 10, 2013, in Boston. The 19-year-old has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty. (AP Photo/Jane Flavell Collins)
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** FILE ** Sen. Marco Rubio, once a darling of the tea party movement, has dismayed many of the people who helped put him in office with his immigration reform bill. (Associated Press)
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"Imagine beginning every month not knowing what money you have and not being able to track how much you've spent. Yet year after year, that's where the federal government operates."
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A U.S. Marshal's van, believed to be carrying Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, arrives at the federal courthouse for his arraignment on July 10, 2013, in Boston. The April 15 attack killed three and wounded more than 260. The 19-year-old Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. right, accompanied by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., gestures as he speaks with reporters on Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 9, 2013, about student loan rates following a Republican strategy session. Interest rates doubled to 6.8 percent last week because Congress didn't avert a rate hike built into the law. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
