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Isma'il Clayton, 13, and his father Kyle talk about Isma'il's experiences being bullied by his classmates because of his Asperger's Syndrome during a Congressional briefing on Bullying of Children with Special Needs Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Mr. Clayton is demanding a zero-tolerance policy on bullying in schools. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Lauren Potter, an actress on the show Glee, talks about her experiences being teased when she was younger because she has Down Syndrome during a Congressional briefing Wednesday, March 16, 2011 on the Bullying of Children with Special Needs while her mom Robin Sinkhorn looks on. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) leans over to talk to Lauren Potter, an actress on the show Glee, during a Congressional briefing on Bullying of Children with Special Needs on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Ms. Potter, who has Down Syndrome, spoke about her experiences growing up and being teased. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Robin Sinkhorn embraces her daughter Lauren Potter following Potter's statement at a Congressional briefing on Bullying of Children with Special Needs on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Potter, an actress on the show Glee, who has Down Syndrome, spoke about her experiences growing up and being teased. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** This Oct. 24, 2001, file photo shows the death chamber at the state prison in Jackson, Ga. Georgia has canceled all executions after federal drug agents seized its supply of a sedative used in lethal injections. The drug has been criticized by activists who oppose capital punishment and by death-row inmates, including one whose lawyers called the British exporter of the drug a "fly-by-night supplier." (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)
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Anthony Semerano, 10, from Montreal, holds up a placard in front of a statue of hockey legend Maurice Richard during a protest against violence in hockey and a call for tougher sanctions from the NHL for hits to the head, Tuesday, March 15, 2011 in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
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Demonstrators hold up a placard during a protest against violence in hockey and demanding tougher sanctions from the NHL against hits to the head, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
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A demonstrator holds up a sign during a protest against violence in hockey and demanding tougher sanctions from the NHL against hits to the head, Tuesday, March 15, 2011, in Montreal. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)
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Mayor Eddie Espinoza of Columbus, N.M., was among 11 people named in an indictment following an investigation into a firearms-trafficking ring that operated across from a Mexican border town where drug gangs are warring. (Associated Press)
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is seeking to fight the demographic forces hollowing out the Farm Belt and to protect Kansas' political clout in Congress. (Associated Press)
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Kentucky Medical Association attorney Bill Doll addresses the House Appropriations and Revenue Committee about the shortfall in Medicaid funding in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, March 15, 2011. (AP Photo)
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"We're still waiting for them to bring something — anything — new to the table," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. (Associated Press)
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Afghan officials investigate the scene of a suicide attack in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The attacker posed as an army volunteer in order to strike an Afghan army recruitment center, which also was bombed in December. The blast killed at least 35 people, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)
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**FILE** President Obama speaks March 14, 2011, about revising the No Child Left Behind education law during an address at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)
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Texas agriculture official Todd Staples says more federal help to fight drugs is needed. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators wave signs and shout as unionized workers and supporters turned out Feb. 25 outside New Jersey's Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., to rally in support of Wisconsin public employees who at the time were locked in a battle over collective-bargaining rights. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Supporters of gay marriage rally Friday, March 11, 2011, in Annapolis, Md., before a vote by the Maryland House of Delegates on whether to give same-sex couples in Maryland the same marriage rights as heterosexuals. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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**FILE** State Rep. Jon Richards (center), Milwaukee Democrat, and other Assembly Democrats thank protesters in the gallery on March 10, 2011, after they were unable to stop the Republican majority from voting on, and passing, the budget repair bill at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Associated Press/Wisconsin State Journal, Michael P. King)
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Kirk Smalley and his wife, Laura Field, of Perkins, Okla., and Sirdeaner Walker from Springfield, Mass., listen at the Conference on Bullying Prevention in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. The couple's 11-year-old son, Ty Field, committed suicide after reportedly being bullied at school, and Ms. Walker's 11-year-old son, Joseph Walker-Hoover, also committed suicide, hanging himself from a third-floor banister after being picked on at school in spring 2009. (Associated Press)
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama speak at a conference on bullying prevention in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. "We all share a responsibility … to teach all children the Golden Rule: We should treat others the way we want to be treated," said Mr. Obama. (Associated Press)
