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** FILE ** This file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, (left) and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican. "Families and businesses have had to cut back, and they're demanding that Washington do the same," said Jordan, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the House conservative caucus. (Associated Press)
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DEVELOPER: Keith Forney is co-owner of a club in Ward 5 and a donor to a charity run by D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. (Jimmy Garvin Legacy Foundation)
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Savings would be wiped out because insurers would increase bids to recoup income, Medicare administrator Donald Berwick said. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this Jan. 6 photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio (right), accompanied by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, holds a copy of a proposal to repeal the Health Care Bill during a news conference on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)
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A Feb. 23, 2010, file photo of the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia. Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, who catered to minorities, immigrants and poor women at the facility, was charged Wednesday Jan. 19, 2011, with eight counts of murder in the deaths of a patient and seven babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors, prosecutors said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California (center), flanked by House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland (left) and House Assistant Minority Leader James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, takes part in a Democratic Leadership Meeting on repealing the health care law Tuesday on Capitol Hill. Seated in the foreground are Rep. Karen Bass of California and Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island. (Associated Press)
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A poster of Liu Xiaobo, jailed Chinese activist and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner, is displayed as Rep. Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican (left), speaks Tuesday on Capitol Hill about human-rights issues. (Associated Press)
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Orthodox Jewish children gather outside a school in Beni Brak, Israel, on Thursday. Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel. Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country. (Associated Press)
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Police officers put yellow tape outside Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday. Officers took a youth into custody and transported him to a police station while the school remained locked down. (Associated Press)
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This frame grab from video made available by ABC7.com, shows a person being taken into custody at Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif. According to officials, two students were wounded in a shooting at the high school. (AP Photo/ABC7.com)
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"Cutting the [U.N.] budget is not enough, because you need to reform the monster, you need to reform the beast, and if you don't get fundamental reform, you are still rewarding a corrupt, mismanaged agency," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Associated Press)
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Human rights activists, wearing orange prison garb and black hoods to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday to protest that the detention center has not been closed by President Obama. (Associated Press)
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If Marion Barry gets the D.C. Council committee gavel he expects, he'll have jurisdiction over issues related to senior citizens, gays, ethnic minorities, civil rights and human rights. (The Washington Times)
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"Cutting the [U.N.] budget is not enough, because you need to reform the monster, you need to reform the beast, and if you don't get fundamental reform, you are still rewarding a corrupt, mismanaged agency," said House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. (Associated Press)
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Human rights activists, wearing orange prison garb and black hoods to represent the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday to protest that the detention center has not been closed down by President Obama. (Associated Press)
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Thousands of people take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in San Antonio on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Thousands of people take part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in San Antonio on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A man dressed as Abraham Lincoln takes part in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in San Antonio on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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A woman kisses a soldier as she protests against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in the center of Tunis, Monday, Jan. 17. 2011. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Tunisians living in Belgium protest against Tunisia's President Zine Abidine El Ben Ali at the Brussels' stock market, Saturday Jan. 15, 2011. Tunisia has been grappling with looting, deadly fires and widespread unrest after protests forced President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia on Friday. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
