Social Issues

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"No, it's a penalty. It's a penalty that comes under the tax code for the 1 percent perhaps of the population who may decide that they are going to be free-riders." - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat (Associated Press)

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Brian Conklin (far right), a regional campaign director for the re-election of President Obama, briefs volunteers about registering new voters prior to them canvassing a heavily Latino neighborhood in Phoenix. Across the country both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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In this photo combo, at left, in an Oct. 8, 2011 file photo, Penn State president Graham Spanier walks on the field before an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa. At right, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves the Centre County Courthouse in custody after being found guilty of multiple charges of child sexual abuse in Bellefonte, Pa., Friday, June 22, 2012. CNN says it has seen emails showing Spanier agreed not to take allegations of sex abuse against Sandusky to authorities but worried they'd be "vulnerable" for failing to report it. CNN says the emails followed a graduate assistant's 2001 report of seeing Sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in a shower. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

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In this image released Thursday June 28,2012 by The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health showing the winning design for it's first ever contest to design condom wrappers. Health officials on Thursday unveiled the winning design for LA's Next Sex Symbol. The bow-tie image with the words "Suit Up" won over about 500 entries. (AP Photo/Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi celebrates the Supreme Court's ruling Thursday with her staff on Capitol Hill. Democrats said they can now attempt to correct errors they acknowledge they made when they wrote the bill. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Tea party supporter William Temple of Brunswick, Ga., on protests against the health care law outside the Supreme Court. Opponents vow to make the law an issue in this fall's presidential and congressional elections. (Associated Press)

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Erik Compton, 32, made the cut at a PGA Tour event five months after his second heart transplant. His health issues began when he was a 9-year-old growing up in Miami. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Replicas of the Congressional Gold Medal where given to 440 retired African American Marines during the Montford Pointe Marines Parade at the Marine Barracks Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Washington D.C. Approximately 20,000 African American Marine recruits where trained at Montford Pointe when the military was still segregated. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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The audience watches from the grand stands as 440 retired African American Marines are honored during the Montford Pointe Marines Parade at the Marine Barracks Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Washington D.C. Approximately 20,000 African American Marine recruits where trained at Montford Pointe when the military was still segregated. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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The audience watches from the grand stands as 440 retired African American Marines are honored during the Montford Pointe Marines Parade at the Marine Barracks Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Washington D.C. Approximately 20,000 African American Marine recruits where trained at Montford Pointe when the military was still segregated. (Raymond Thompson/The Washington Times)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner (center), Ohio Republican, walks toward the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, June 28, 2012, after the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012, after the Supreme Court ruled on his health care legislation. (AP Photo/Luke Sharrett/Pool)