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**FILE** President Obama speaks Feb. 1, 2012, at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Gay-marriage supporters outside the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center in Sacramento, Calif., listen during a news conference on the Proposition 8 decision on Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press/The Sacramento Bee)
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Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona, accompanied by fellow Republicans Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming (left) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky (right), criticizes Democrats on the deadlocked bipartisan payroll-tax conference panel Tuesday at a news conference. (Associated Press)
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The Republican National Committee's answer to President Obama's swanky fashion-inspired campaign fundraising: the "Super Pac" flip flop. (image from Republican National Committee)
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** FILE ** Supporters of gay marriage celebrate outside the James R. Browning United States Courthouse in San Francisco on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, after a federal appeals court declared California's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Lea Suzuki)
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Firefighters listen to Chief Kenneth Ellerbe's State of the Department speech Jan. 24, at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. About 100 walked out to protest shift and uniform changes. A spokesman has used social media to call their actions racist. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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D.C Fire Department spokesman Lon Walls has said on his personal Facebook and Twitter accounts that a firefighters' walkout from Chief Kenneth Ellerbe's Jan. 24 State of the Department speech was racist. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum signs an autograph after a speech on healthcare, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012, in Rochester, Minn. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks Monday at Florida State University in Tallahassee in support of the Obama administration's proposal to cap college tuition. (Associated Press)
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Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff talks Feb. 6, 2012, with consumer-rights organization Public Citizen in D.C. about his lobbying experience and his hope for change in the lobbying system. Abramoff, who spent 3½ years in a federal penitentiary for bribery of public officials and other crimes before his 2012 release, owes some $44 million in reparations. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff talks Feb. 6, 2012, with consumer-rights organization Public Citizen in D.C. about his lobbying experience and his hope for change in the lobbying system. Abramoff, who spent 3½ years in a federal penitentiary for bribery of public officials and other crimes before his 2012 release, owes some $44 million in reparations. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff talks Feb. 6, 2012, with consumer-rights organization Public Citizen in D.C. about his lobbying experience and his hope for change in the lobbying system. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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President Obama talks Feb. 3, 2012, about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the police headquarters hit by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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New York Giants' Eli Manning throws during practice, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, in Indianapolis. The Giants will face the New England Patriots in the NFL football Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5.(AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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President Obama talks Feb. 3, 2012, about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, is very skeptical the federal government can afford to provide $200 million over a decade in new funding the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City in tough budget times. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has heard from fellow Republican Sen. Tom Coburn challenging a “duplicative funding stream” for the private 9/11 museum. (Associated Press)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Budget Committee on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Pastor Joe Fuiten of Cedar Park Assembly of God in Bothell speaks against the pending gay marriage legislation at a noon rally of several hundred, last Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, as legislative hearings regarding the bill are held on the Capitol campus in Olympia, Wash. As lawmakers held their first public hearing on legalizing same-sex marriage, a previously undecided Democratic senator on Monday announced her support for the measure, all but ensuring that Washington will become the seventh state to allow gay and lesbian couples to get married. (AP Photo/The Olympian, Steve Bloom)
