Social Issues

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"My question for President Obama is, 'Where is your plan to stop these automatic cuts from hollowing out our defenses?' " - House Speaker John A. Boehner

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In this May 10, 2012 photo, Claudia Solorio holds her daughter, Kimberly Magdeleno, 4, as nurses give her a whooping cough booster shot at a health clinic in Tacoma, Wash. State health officials declared an epidemic as the number of pertussis cases has soared this year. (Associated Press/ File)

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"Don't despair, the money's there," says Kesh Ladduwahetty (center), a volunteer with D.C. for Democracy, during a rally at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 10, 2012. She told D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown that there is $240 million in surplus funding from the FY 2011 budget, $65 million from the FY 2012 budget, and that the city could raise a potential $20 million more by increasing the alcohol excise tax. She and other community services organizations are hoping for $32 to $40 million in funding in the FY 2013 budget for things like affordable housing and homeless services. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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A woman who was part of the "A Day in the Strife" rally at the Wilson Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 10, 2012 holds up a drawing indicating her displeasure with budget cuts. About 200 people from a coalition of grassroots organizations, community services groups and D.C. homeless citizens converged on the Wilson building Thursday to ask council members to allocate funding to homeless services and affordable housing in the FY 2013 budget. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Children waiting for adoptions are seen June 12, 2006, in a house held by a lawyer specialized in adoptions in Guatemala City, Guatemala. (Associated Press)

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NAACP President Ben Jealous said the organization won't let recently enacted voter ID laws suppress turnout as it launched a nationwide drive to register thousands of mostly minority, student and elderly voters. (Associated Press)

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Bryan Cranston arrives at The John Varvatos 9th Annual Stuart House Benefit, Sunday, March 11, 2012, at The John Varvatos boutique in Los Angeles. The John Varvatos Stuart House benefit hosts an outdoor charity concert and family day to benefit Stuart House, a program of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. (AP Photo/ Katy WInn)