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President Barack Obama, left, points to Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., center, and Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., right, after signing the Dodd Frank-Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in a ceremony in the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, Wednesday, July 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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**FILE** President Obama meets with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on June 29, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Then-President George W. Bush carries his two dogs, Barney, foreground, and Miss Beazley, background, down the steps of Air Force One on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2006, near Washington. Mr. Bush was returning to Washington after spending 11 days in Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **
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Newly printed $20 notes are seen at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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** FILE ** Ben Ali, owner of Ben's Chili Bowl, accepts congratulations on Friday, Aug. 22, 2003, for the Washington landmark's 45th year anniversary. The local eatery's patriarch and Washington, D.C. icon, whose customers included Bill Cosby, Jessie Jackson, Washington D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams, died Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009 at the age of 82. (Roey Yohai / The Washington Times)
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**FILE** In this photo from April 14, 2005, President Bush throws out the first pitch at RFK Stadium in Washington at the start of the home opener between the Washington Nationals and the Arizona Diamondbacks. (Associated Press)
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President Obama arrives for a speech at the Export-Import Bank's annual conference in Washington on Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) headquarters in Washington (Associated Press) **FILE**
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US Airways planes are seen at Reagan National Airport near Washington in December 2009. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan meets Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, May 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill., speaks during a news conference on health care reform hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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GETTY IMAGES Brunilda Vega (center) and Jodi Valenciano Perry (third from left) celebrate in Washington after hearing that Judge Sonia Sotomayor was sworn in as the newest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday.
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AFP/GETTY IMAGES The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington. Presidents who took bold stands are those most memorialized and best remembered.
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES President Obama orders cheeseburgers at a Five Guys restaurant in Washington on Friday during a surprise lunch stop that his spokesman attributed to hunger and not an appetite for the cameras following him.
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First lady Michelle Obama visits students with the YouthBuild AmeriCorps community service program who gathered on the National Mall in Washington to celebrate their 30th anniversary by building an affordable, energy-efficient house, in Washington, Tuesday, March 17, 2009. She is joioned at rear by YouthBuild's founder, Dorothy Stoneman. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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James Stewart in "Mr. Smith goes to Washington," as the model citizen.
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** FILE ** A Metropolitan Police cruiser in downtown Washington (The Washington Times)
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"La Traviata" is no stranger to the Washington area opera scene, and will return this weekend to George Mason University's Center for the Arts.
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Sen. Jesse Helms, North Carolina Republican (left), who took delight in being called "Senator No" for opposing liberal legislation, was joined by conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly and Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, at an anti-Equal Rights Amendment dinner in March 1979 in Washington. (Associated Press/File)
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MICHELLE GININGER/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A train belonging to CSX, the Eastern Seaboard's primary freight carrier, passes through Northeast Washington, part of the railroad's 21,000 miles of track.
