Social Issues

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** FILE ** Douglas W. Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Democratic Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey opposed a bill that would overturn several NLRB rulings, but it passed a House committee 23-16. (Associated Press)

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Gita Deane (left) and Lisa Polyak (right) are shown at their wedding in Washington with their daughters, Maya (center left), 15, and Devi, 12. Ms. Polyak is chairwoman of the statewide gay-rights group Equality Maryland. "The root of my activism is denial of equal treatment of my children," she said. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rajat Kumar Gupta, former chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, listens during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone/Alessandro Della Bella, File)

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry holds up the tax form he says that Americans would fill out as he outlined a broad economic proposal of a flat 20 percent income tax rate during a news conference Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2011, at the State House in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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Rep. Steve King, one of the most fiery opponents of President Obama's "executive amnesty" for illegal immigrants, backed away from his previous calls for impeachment. "I don't want to do the 'I' word. Nobody wants to throw the nation into that kind of turmoil," the Iowa Republican told CNN immediately following Mr. Obama's executive action. (Associated Press)

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This arrest photo, made available by the Tampa Police Department, shows Michael Lohan following his arrest, Tuesday Oct. 25, 2011 in Tampa, Fla. Lohan was arrested after police received a domestic violence call from his Tampa home. He was arrested for battery on his live-in girlfriend. (AP Photo/Tampa Police Department)

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Texas Rangers' Mike Napoli hits a two-RBI double off St. Louis Cardinals' Marc Rzepczynski during the eighth inning of Game 5 of baseball's World Series Monday, Oct. 24, 2011, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Sen. John Boozman, co-sponsor of an E-Verify bill, only recently signed up for the system. (Associated Press)

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Henrik Holgersson sits with his son, Arvid, at their home in Stockholm. Mr. Holgersson has split Sweden's parental leave with his girlfriend and is spending eight months at home with their child. (Associated Press)

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Audience members in El Paso, Texas, listen to President Obama speak about immigration reform in May. Mr. Obama heads out West again for three days on Monday. He will stop first in Las Vegas with a pitch to prod Congress to enact his jobs legislation. (Associated Press)

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"If there is something illegal going on, or there's a tip; but just to ask, I personally don't think they have a right." Brittany Ceaser, Falls Church, contractor, 24

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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray Oct. 20, 2011, surveys damage to the Washington National Cathedral from the Aug. 23 earthquake (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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Carcasses are scattered on the ground at the Muskingum County Animal Farm in Zanesville, Ohio, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Sheriff's deputies shot 48 animals, including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions, after Terry Thompson, owner of the private farm, threw their cages open Tuesday and then committed suicide. (Associated Press)

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Lindsay Lohan is shown in court before being taken into custody by Los Angeles Country sheriffs deputies after a judge found her in violation of probation on Oct. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Greek riot police officers, covered in red paint thrown by protesters, react during clashes in central Athens on Wednesday. Anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence, as demonstrators hurled chunks of marble and gasoline bombs and riot police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. (Associated Press)

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Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs take actress Lindsay Lohan into custody after a judge found her in violation of her probation on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark Boster, Pool)

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a discussion by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of legislation for the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Sgt. Joseph Green observes the dank boiler room in Philadelphia where four mentally disabled adults were found locked inside Saturday. (Associated Press)