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Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, left, talks with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, right, before Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard addresses a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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In this picture taken Tuesday March 8, 2011, a Chinese man enters a community clinic for medical treatment in downtown Beijing, China. Eight million more Chinese will be covered by the urban basic health insurance in 2011, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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Staff Sgt. Robin Duncan-Chisolm enjoys time with her son, Seth, in Upper Marlboro, Md. She was deployed to Iraq last year with the District of Columbia National Guard while she was getting a divorce, which kept her worried about keeping custody of him. (Associated Press)

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Serge Michel Dorval, a Haitian citizen deported from the U.S., now lives at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince. (Associated Press)

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks to reporters Monday regarding a letter he received from the state Senate's minority leader on the political standoff. (Associated Press)

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Mr. Thomas (left) is escorted from New Haven Superior Court after his arraignment in New Haven, Conn., on Monday. He is suspected in the sexual assault of at least 17 women from Virginia to Rhode Island since 1997. (Associated Press)

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A union supporter raises his fist in opposition to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers on the 18th day of protests at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Saturday, March 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

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People who worked in Libya but fled the emerging civil war there can only wait and hope for better days Sunday in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia. It can shelter about 5,000. (Associated Press)

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Of her party's proposed $60 billion in budget cuts, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said, "We can't stop there." (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon D. Fox (center), Providence Democrat, speaks with fellow lawmakers during a session in the House chamber at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Mr. Fox, who is gay, is a co-sponsor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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** FILE ** This composite of artists' sketches provided by the Fairfax, Va., County Police Department shows the likeness of a suspect wanted for 12 sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults between 1997 and 2009 in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The sketches were made (from left) in 1998, 1999 and 2000. (AP Photo/Fairfax County Police, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided Nov. 17, 2010, by Goodman Media International, Inc., shows Donald Berwick, the official quarterbacking the overhaul of the nation's medical system, installed last year by President Barack Obama as a recess appointment, bypassing the Senate. Unable to repeal Obama's health care law, 42 Republican senators asked Obama in a letter released Thursday, March 3, 2011, to withdraw his nomination of Berwick as Medicare administrator. (AP Photo/Goodman Media International, Inc., File) NO SALES.

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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2011 file photo, new graduates fill out forms after attending a company's briefing session as they look for a job in Tokyo. The National Police Agency report published Thursday, March 3, 2011 says a total of 31,690 people committed suicide in 2010, fell from the year before but remained above 30,000 for the 13th year in a row. But the number of people citing grim job prospects in their suicide notes has more than doubled since 2007. About one-third of them were in their 20s, including new graduates seeking jobs. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, FILE)

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A soldier from the Tunisia army gestures, as men from Bangladesh, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, walk with their belongings alongside a road, as they head to a refugee camp after crossing the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Friday, March 4, 2011. Bangladeshis were angry at their country's government for not doing more to get the refugees home Most of the Bangladeshis appear to have arrived in Tunisia penniless because their Libyan employers did not pay them or because they were robbed on the way.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Refugees hold suitcases as they crowd the Libya-Tunisia border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Tuesday "the situation is reaching crisis point" at the Libya-Tunisia border where authorities say up to 75,000 people have fled Libya since Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia)

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A resident of Ghana displays a piece of paper mentioning his nationality as he waits with other refugees to enter Tunisia after fleeing Libya on the Libya-Tunisia border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 1 , 2011.U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Tuesday "the situation is reaching crisis point" at the Libya-Tunisia border where authorities say up to 75,000 people have fled Libya since Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Giorgos Moutafis)

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Displaced people play soccer backdropped by their refugee camp, after fleeing from unrest in Libya, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday March 3, 2011. The camp houses about 5,000 people, trying to handle the large numbers of expatriates crossing the border into Tunisia, carrying their belongings and horrific memories of the violence tearing apart Moammar Gadhafi's Libya. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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A displaced man looks out from his tent in a refugee camp for people fleeing from unrest in Libya, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday March 3, 2011. The camp was built to handle the large numbers of people crossing the border from Libya, and currently houses about 5,000 people, arriving in Tunisia carrying all their belongings. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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A foreigner carries his suitcase on the Libyan side of the Ras Adjir border before crossing into Tunisia Thursday, March 3, 2011. About 12,000 people have been crossing the Libyan-Tunisian border daily this week, and in total between 20,000 and 30,000 migrants were now in Ras Adjir, according to the Tunisian Red Crescent. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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President Obama extends a hand to his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon, at their joint news conference Thursday at the White House. Their remarks touched on issues of immigration, drug violence and fallout over the recent slaying of a U.S. customs agent in Mexico. (Associated Press)