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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, and the Senate Budget Committee's top Republican, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, right, give the GOP response to President Obama's budget submission for Fiscal Year 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena activists burn greeting cards during a protest against Valentine's Day celebrations in Jammu, India, on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. Hard-line Hindu groups routinely protest against the perceived invasion of Western culture into India. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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Bahraini demonstrators run from tear gas on Monday as riot police disperse a protest in the village of Duraz, Bahrain, outside the capital of Manama. Demonstrations broke out nationwide in response to calls on social media sites for major anti-government protests and were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas and chasing demonstrators. (Associated Press)
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Copies of the U.S. government budget for fiscal 2012 are stacked up at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Death row inmate Roy Willard Blankenship claims Georgia's stockpile of a key lethal injection drug has expired, and he's asking a judge to halt an execution he says may cause him to die in excruciating pain. (AP Photo/Georgia Department of Corrections)
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Willow Wimbush, left, and Nancy Harris, work on copies of the Appendix of the 2012 budget at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington on Feb. 10, 2011. President Obama will send his 2012 budget proposal to Congress on Monday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2010 file photo, TV personality Stephen Colbert, host of "The Colbert Report," testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security and International Law subcommittee hearing on Protecting America's Harvest. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, file)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of women hold a poster with a photo of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi behind bars during a protest in Milan, Italy, on Sunday. Thousands of women turned out in 200 Italian cities to denounce what they say is Mr. Berlusconi's debasing of women. Prosecutors want to try Mr. Berlusconi for allegedly paying a 17-year-old Moroccan girl for sex. Paying for prostitution with a minor is a crime in Italy. Mr. Berlusconi and the teenager have denied the allegation.
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The 2012 federal budget is on display at the U.S. Government Printing Office at Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Friday, Feb. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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In this photo taken on on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, High school graduate and teen mother, Erika Perez, 18, meets with her Adolescent Family Life Program (AFLP) case manager Elizabeth Rodriguez, to set her life goals at the AltaMed Health Services Corporation in East Los Angeles. The AFLP and others like it are being credited, in part, with helping slow the rate of teen births in California to an all-time low, which reflects a national record low. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm speaks to the North Dakota House's Industry, Business and Labor Committee on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, about legislation that helps to implement a federal health care reform law in North Dakota. The North Dakota Legislature will be reviewing a series of health-care measures during its 2011 session. (AP Photo/Dale Wetzel)
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**FILE** Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Feb. 11, 2011. (Associated Press)
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A woman passes a poster reading: "Weapons Monopoly for Criminals? No" in Zurich last month. Swiss gun culture meets grass-roots democracy on Sunday in a referendum dividing those who hope to cut the country's high rate of firearms suicides and those who fear tighter rules might kill off village shooting clubs and even cripple Switzerland's legendary citizen militia. (Associated Press)
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Anti-government protesters demonstrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country on Thursday over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak despite warnings from the vice president that protests won't be tolerated much longer. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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An Egyptian soldier watches as protesters pray in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Thousands of state workers and impoverished Egyptians launched strikes and protests around the country on Thursday over their economic woes as anti-government activists sought to expand their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak despite warnings from the vice president that protests won't be tolerated much longer. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Sen. Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, gives two thumbs up while addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers (center), Kentucky Republican, listens to Kentucky Senate President David Williams as state House Speaker Greg Stumbo sits at left before their testimony before a state Senate committee in Frankfort, Ky., on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. All three spoke in support of a bill that would require a prescription for certain cold medicines because of their use in making methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
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Singer Leona Lewis arrives at the 2nd Annual Essence Black Women in Music reception honoring Grammy-nominated artist Janelle Monae in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
