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Rep. Patrick Meehan explores the finer points of monitoring social media while protecting First Amendment rights at a Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence hearing Thursday. (photo from Rep. Meehan)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that self-insuring religious employers will be exempted from a contraception coverage mandate. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. joined her Tuesday for the release of a health care fraud and abuse control program report. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Children line up Jan. 19, 2012, to receive a meal at a food distribution center for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testifies Feb. 14, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Armed Services Committee to outline the Pentagon's budget. (Associated Press)
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Democratic Delegates Bonnie L. Cullison (left), of Montgomery County, and Jill P. Carter, of Baltimore, exult after a bill to legalize same-sex marriage jointly passed two Maryland House committees Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A worker cleans the sign of the Bank of Greece from red and black paint, after Sunday's riots, in Athens, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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President Obama pushes Congress to extend the payroll-tax cut and unemployment insurance through the end of the year during a speech on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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** FILE ** Josh Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, listens during a court hearing regarding the custody of his two sons on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in Tacoma, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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President Barack Obama speaks about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget, Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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New Jersey state Sen. Richard J. Codey, a Democrat, speaks in favor of a bill legalizing gay marriage in debate Monday at the state Capitol in Trenton, N.J. The Senate passed the measure on a vote of 24-16, but Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, has vowed to veto it. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 13, 2012, about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (Associated Press)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie answers a question in Trenton, N.J., on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, about his statement the day before that he will veto a bill being considered by the Legislature to legalize gay marriage. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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President Obama speaks Feb. 13, 2012, about the "Community College to Career Fund" and his 2013 budget at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va. (Associated Press)
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Cheryl Kitchens, a Government Printing Office receiving clerk, delivers the printed version of the Office of Management and Budget's fiscal 2013 budget on a pallet to the House Committee on the Budget in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Houston is shown with her then-husband Bobby Brown in 1997. They had a child together and were divorced in 2007. "I love you, Whitney. The hardest thing for me to do is to come on this stage," he said in Mississippi, where he was giving a concert Saturday after her death was announced. (Associated Press)
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A fire rages in a Eurobank branch that was set ablaze during riots in Athens on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. Protesters and police fought running battles in the city center as Greek lawmakers debated legislation that would introduce severe austerity measures to stave off bankruptcy. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination at a rally in Oklahoma City on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Greek communists hang banners in Greek and English under the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, to protest European Union policies. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Sarah Palin, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2008, and former Alaska governor, delivers the keynote address to activists from America's political right at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
