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President Obama delivers remarks on the economy in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, July 23, 2010.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Associated Press President Obama signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act at the White House on Thursday. The legislation, which passed both houses of Congress unanimously, calls on agencies to crack down on improper government payments.

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The White House said on Thursday, July 22, that the president (shown in this composite in a March 2010 photo) expressed to Ms. Sherrod his regret about the events of the last several days, noting that the phone call lasted seven minutes. (Credits: Sherrod file photo: AP/United States Department of Agriculture; Obama: Pete Souza for Associated Press)

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Kenyatta Sherrod, left, and Russia Sherrod, the children of Shirley Sherrod, speak to a reporter after a rally in support for their mother on Wednesday, July 21, 2010, in Albany, Ga. The White House did a sudden about-face Wednesday and begged for forgiveness from the black Agriculture Department employee whose ouster ignited an embarrassing political firestorm over race. (AP Photo/The Albany Herald, Terry Lewis)

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President Obama signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act in a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Obama, center seated, signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act in a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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A close-up as President Obama signs the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act in a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Outgoing director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag after President Obama signed the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act in a ceremony at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Obama departs after signing the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act at the White House in Washington on July 22, 2010. UPI/Brendan Hoffman/Pool

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President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Obama, right, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, talk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, left, during his meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau)

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President Barack Obama, right, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, talk during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama, right, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, talk during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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British Prime Minister David Cameron's first visit to the White House will include discussions on the war in Afghanistan and whether BP, the company responsible for the Gulf oil spill, played a part in the release of the Lockerbie bomber, who killed 270 people, mostly Americans. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama, left, walks out of the Oval Office of the White House Leslie Macko, center, from Charlottesville Va., and Jim Chukalas, from Fredon Township, N.J., before delivering remarks on extending unemployment insurance, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on extending unemployment insurance in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. The White House announced Tuesday a push for government workers to travel less. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama stands with, from left to right: Denise Gibson from Brooklyn, N.Y., Jim Chukalas from Fredon Township, N.J., and Leslie Macko from Charlottesville, Va., all unemployed, as he speaks about the unemployment insurance and the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Barack Obama, second from the left, walks away from the podium with from left to right, Leslie Macko, from Charlottesville Va., Jim Chukalas, from Fredon Township, NJ., and Denise Gibson, from Brooklyn, NY., after delivering remarks on the extending unemployment insurance in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Obama (second from left) walks from the podium in the Rose Garden of the White House with (from left) Leslie Macko of Charlottesville; Jim Chukalas of Fredon Township, N.J.; and Denise Gibson of Brooklyn, N.Y., after delivering remarks on extending unemployment insurance. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)