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Commuters wait for the first train after a five-hour work stoppage by urban rail workers, as all other public transport employees are on a 48-hour strike, in Athens on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks Feb. 9, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in D.C. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tried to attract voters more interested in social issues before Tuesday's contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado. He failed to win any of the three. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican and chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, says President Obama must be ousted in the next election because of government overreach, such as in higher education. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)
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Gov. Chris Gregoire, right, looks on at a House floor debate on gay marriage with Sen. Ed Murray, left, and Sen. Lisa Brown from the wings Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers legalized gay marriage in Washington state, making it the seventh state in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed. Democratic Gov. Gregoire is likely to sign the bill next week. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Deputy James Mee, who is Jewish, claims he suffered religious discrimination by superiors at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after arresting actor Mel Gibson in 2006. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Monsignor Stephen Rossetti (right), a psychologist who for a decade ran a U.S. treatment center for abusive priests, listens Feb. 8, 2012, to Monsignor Charles Scicluna during a press conference in Rome. Monsignor Scicluna spoke on the sidelines of a Vatican-backed symposium on clerical sex abuse that is designed to help bishops craft guidelines to protect children and keep pedophiles out of the priesthood. (Associated Press)
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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)
