Social Issues

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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)

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, criticizes U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder as he speaks 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)

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** FILE ** In this undated file photo provided by the California Department of Corrections, Wesley Shermantine is shown. Information provided by the California death row inmate who was one of the two notorious "Speed Freak Killers" led to the discovery Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, of a second set of human remains. (AP Photo/California Department of Corrections, File)

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Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana addresses activists from America's political right at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley testifies in support of a same-sex marriage bill during a committee hearing in Annapolis on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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**FILE** Rep. Allen West, Florida Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces Feb. 10, 2012, at the White House the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (Associated Press)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks Feb. 10, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks Feb. 10, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks Feb. 10, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly, signs Feb. 10, 2012, the Ultralight Aircraft Smuggling Prevention Act of 2012 in the Oval Office of the White House. The bill, which gives law enforcement greater authority to combat illicit drug trafficking on U.S. borders, is the last piece of legislation that Giffords sponsored and voted on. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama speaks Feb. 9, 2012, about flexibility for states with the No Child Left Behind law at the White House. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, to criticize President Barack Obama for insisting that employers must provide health insurance that includes birth control for women. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)