Social Issues

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, accompanied by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (right), Texas Republican, and Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

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A man sits at a Shiite mosque targeted by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, June 21, 2013. Militants opened fire on a Shiite Muslim mosque where worshippers were gathering for Friday prayers, and then a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside, killing more than a dozen people in the latest attack aimed at the minority sect, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican questions why the Department of Agriculture is spending money on starting wine festivals, marketing a Bloody Mary mix and helping homeowners on tony Martha's Vineyard while Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the sequester is forcing him to cut off food aid for 600,000 needy women and children.

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Voters in the Lone Star State have picked their very own freshman senator as the most promising White House hopeful. Sen. Ted Cruz grabbed 25 percent of the vote in a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. (Associated Press)

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Washington Nationals left fielder Bryce Harper gestures and wears a brace on his left knee, during an television interview before a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies at Nationals Park, Thursday, June 20, 2013, in Washington. Harper has been on the disabled list with an injured knee. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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**FILE** Stacks of paperwork await members of the House Agriculture Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2013, as it meets to consider proposals to the 2013 Farm Bill. (Associated Press)

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At a U.N.-sponsored school, Guor Mading meets with pupils who are curious about his improbable story of escaping the horrors of war and becoming an Olympic runner. (Photograph provided by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees)

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A young athlete joins Guor Mading for a jog in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. (Photograph provided by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees)

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The former Lost Boy of Sudan meets with a group of toddlers who have better prospects but still many struggles ahead. (Photograph provided by U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees)

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Sen. Susan M. Collins, Maine Republican, said employers should be allowed to calculate full-time employees based on a 40-hour workweek instead of 30 hours under the new health law. "This is not a hypothetical concern," Ms. Collins said. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Rep. Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, leaves a tea party rally against the IRS at the U.S. Capitol in D.C. on June 19, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Activists with the Tea Party Patriots who were targeted by the IRS hold an "Audit the IRS" rally on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 19, 2013. (Annie Z. Yu/The Washington Times)