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President Barack Obama is greeted before giving his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

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Secretary of State John Kerry greets President Barack Obama before the president's State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12, 2013. Sen.Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. is at right, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is at center. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

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Last week, a $3.3 billion overhaul and refueling of the Lincoln was postponed, with the budget sequester being cited. (U.S. Navy via Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Israeli soldier picks up parts of a tent previously set up by Palestinian activists in Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron, Saturday, Feb. 9. Palestinian activists set up a tent village to protest the settlement building in the area. (Associated Press)

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Massimiliano Gerina, who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple he was friends with nearly three years ago, discusses parenthood Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in Miami. He was ecstatic about becoming a father, a dream the gay hairdresser had all but given up on. But shortly before the little girl was born, the mothers asked Gerina to sign legal documents saying he had no rights to the baby and was only a sperm donor. (Associated Press)

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Daniel Day-Lewis, center rear, plays Abraham Lincoln, in a scene from the film, "Lincoln." U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, a Connecticut Democrat who saw a flaw in the movie, says he is pleased the screenwriter has conceded an inaccuracy in its portrayal of an 1865 vote on slavery. (AP Photo/DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, David James, File)