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South Korea's President Park Geun-hye applauds US-Korean war veterans, including members of the U.S. Congress who served there,. while addressing a joint meeting of Congress in Washington May 8, 2013. South Korea's President Park Geun-h
South Korea's President Park Geun-hye reacts to a standing ovation by members of Congress while addressing a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in Washington May 8, 2013. South Korea's President Park Geun-h
South Korea's President Park Geun-hye (L) talks to member of the U.S. Congress as she arrives in the House chamber to address a joint meeting in Washington May 8, 2013. South Korea's President Park Geun-h
Ken Feinberg (L), chairman of the John F. Kennedy Foundation board of directors, greets singer Tony Bennett at the 2013 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award dinner, at the Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts May 5, 2013. Former Arizona Congresswoman Giffords received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, asking the U.S. Congress to act more courageously on the issue of gun control. Ken Feinberg (L), chairman of the J
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: Government Printing Office Congressional Receiving Clertk Glen Perkins (L) wheels boxes containing copies of the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2014 federal budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. Wednesday was the first day that members of Congress were able to study the budget, which the White House says The White House says the Obama plan would cut deficits by a total of $1.8 trillion over a decade. WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 10: Governm
A girl holds up a banner while people take part in a rally to demand that Congress fix the broken immigration system at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, April 6, 2013. As the wrangling over immigration reform intensifies in the U.S. Congress, the tech industry is lobbying hard to raise the limit on H-1B visas, which allow non-U.S. citizens with advanced skills and degrees in A girl holds up a banner while peop
Mobile, Alabama dignitaries and representatives from the US Congress, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS), Airbus, JetBlue and other companies take part in a ground breaking ceremony for an assembly line for the Airbus A320 at at Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama on April 8, 2013. Mobile, Alabama dignitaries and rep
MIAMI, FL - APRIL 06: Julio Magana and others participate in a march that organizers said was an attempt to get the U.S. Congress to say yes to immigration reform on April 6, 2013 in Miami, Florida. The marchers were calling for a new immigration system with a real and inclusive path to citizenship for 11 million aspiring Americans, and to keep families together. MIAMI, FL - APRIL 06: Julio Magana
Riot policemen secure the vicinity of the U.S. embassy, during a protest by relatives of Yemenis detained at Guantanamo Bay, in Sanaa April 1, 2013. The detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in eastern Cuba holds 166 men captured in counterterrorism operations. Nearly all have been held for 11 years without charge. The Barack Obama administration has cleared more than half the Guantanamo prisoners for release or transfer, but the U.S. Congress has blocked efforts to close the detention camp and made it increasingly difficult to resettle Guantanamo prisoners. Many are Yemenis whom the U.S. will not repatriate at this time because of instability in that country. Riot policemen secure the vicinity
US Congressman and Republican member of the House of Representatives from Illinois, Aaron Schock drives a TATA NANO car during the US delegation visit at the TATA NANO Plant near Sanand, some 60 kms from Ahmedabad on March 29, 2013. The 18-member US Congress delegation headed by Aaron Schock is currently touring India and ends a two-day tour of Gujarat before heading for Bangalore. US Congressman and Republican membe
FILE In this March 28, 2013, file photo Republican Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal addresses the Senate in Atlanta. As more Republican governors yield to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the most conservative states in South, which includes governors who lead some of the nation s poorest and unhealthiest states. Among them is Deal, who answers with skepticism when asked about projected uncompensated care savings and the U.S. Congress s pledge to finance 90 percent of new Medicaid costs. FILE In this March 28, 2013, file
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) speaks at a press conference with Congress members from Connecticut and a group of 26 cyclists who rode from Newtown, Connecticut in support of common-sense solutions to gun violence on March 12, 2013 in Washington, DC. Each member of the group of cyclists, which included two parents of children who attended Sandy Hook Elementary School, rode in honor of one of the 26 victims killed at the school on December 14, 2012. WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 12: Rep. Ros
TUCSON, AZ - MARCH 06: Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords holds the hand of her husband Mark Kelly as they attend a news conference asking Congress and the Senate to provide stricter gun control in the United States on March 6, 2013 in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords and Kelly were joined by survivors of the Tucson shooting as they spoke outside the Safeway grocery store where the shooting happened two years ago where six people were killed. TUCSON, AZ - MARCH 06: Former Cong
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff gestures during the National Congress of Rural Workers in Brasilia, on March 5, 2013, in which she paid tribute to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who died today after a long battle with cancer. Rousseff hailed him as a 'great Latin American' and 'a friend of the Brazilian people.' Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff
U.S. President Barack Obama walks into the press briefing room while television correspondents Major Garrett (L) and Jonathan Karl (R) are talking live on TV after a meeting with Congressional leaders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington March 1, 2013. Obama pressed the U.S. Congress on Friday to avoid a government shutdown when federal spending authority runs out on March 27, saying it is the U.S. President Barack Obama walks i
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the sequester after a meeting with congressional leaders at the White House in Washington March 1, 2013. Obama pressed the U.S. Congress on Friday to avoid a government shutdown when federal spending authority runs out on March 27, saying it is the U.S. President Barack Obama speaks
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta gives a thumbs-up to U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Ivo Daalder before boarding his aircraft and departing in Brussels, Belgium February 22, 2013. European defence cuts and U.S. budget gridlock are jeopardising NATO's effectiveness, Panetta warned on Friday. Leaving his last NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels, Panetta joined those warning of the effects of deep defence cuts in many Western countries and said it would be an U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Pane
Riggers stabilize the basket on the crate containing the bronze statue of Rosa Parks as it is delivered to the U.S. Capitol's Memorial Door by a crane, in Washington, Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, where it will join the U.S. Capitol Art Collection. Authorized by Public Law 109-116, as modified by Public Law 110-120, the Rosa Parks statue represents the first commission of a full-sized statue approved and funded by the U.S. Congress since 1873. It will be installed in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol on February 27, 2013. Riggers stabilize the basket on the
People walk in line to apply for visas at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba, The United States Interests Section, (USINT), in Havana February 22, 2013. Starting January 14, Cubans are able to leave the country with just a passport and no need for much-hated exit visas and letters of invitation the communist government imposed in 1961 to slow a mass exodus of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro. As the U.S. Congress takes up immigration reform, the special status of Cuban emigres is being called into question by critics who say the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) is a costly and anachronistic Cold War relic that should be abolished. Notice reads: 'Final Exit'. People walk in line to apply for vi
Former Atlanta mayor and United Nations ambassador Andrew Young addresses the 28th Annual Black History Observance Breakfast at the Columbus Convention & Trade Center in Columbus, Ga., Mon., Feb. 18, 2013. An ordained minister, Young was a civil rights negotiator in Alabama in the mid-1960s, was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1972, brought federal money into MARTA, the Atlanta rapid transit system, the new international terminal for Hartsfield Airport, and co-chaired the Atlanta Olympic Committee. Former Atlanta mayor and United Nat
MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 12: Leah Cayasso and her mother, Bertha Cayasso, watch on television as U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill on February 12, 2013 in Miami, Florida. Bertha arrived in America 13 years ago from Nicaragua. President Obama spoke about the need for immigration reform during his speech. MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 12: Leah Caya
MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 12: Christell Cayasso,18, and Junior Perez watch on television as U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill on February 12, 2013 in Miami, Florida. Christell is a DREAMER whose parents brought her to the United States from Nicaragua. President Obama spoke about the need for immigration reform during his speech. MIAMI, FL - FEBRUARY 12: Christell
strongWashington:/strong President Barack Obama is urging a divided Congress to boost job creation and strengthen the middle class through a package of government-backed proposals. In his State of the Union address, Obama is calling for increasing the federal minimum wage, spending more to fix the nation's roads and bridges, and expanding early childhood education. [caption id=attachment_623254 align=alignleft width=380 strongWashington:/strong President
U.S. President Barack Obama greets members of the U.S. Congress upon arrival to deliver his State of the Union Speech on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 12, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama greets
strongWashington:/strong President Barack Obama will challenge a divided Congress on Tuesday to back his proposals to create jobs for the middle class in a State of the Union speech that will lay out an ambitious second-term agenda. Obama enters the well of the House of Representatives for a 9 pm EST (0200 GMT on Wednesday) address to a joint session of Congress at a time when he is again locked in a bitter battle with Republicans over taxes and spending, and this tussle will cast a heavy shadow over his appearance. [caption id=attachment_623232 align=alignleft width=380 strongWashington:/strong President
The U.S. Capitol building is pictured before U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address in front of the U.S. Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, February 12, 2013. The U.S. Capitol building is pictur
People queue to apply for visas at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana January 30, 2013. Starting January 14, Cubans are able to leave the country with just a passport and no need for much-hated exit visas and letters of invitation the communist government imposed in 1961 to slow a mass exodus of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro. As the U.S. Congress takes up immigration reform, the special status of Cuban emigres is being called into question by critics who say the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) is a costly and anachronistic Cold War relic that should be abolished. The notice reads, People queue to apply for visas at
Chris Hedges, former New York Times reporter and current Truthdig columnist, (R) a plaintiff in the Hedges v. Obama lawsuit filed January 13, 2012 against the Obama Administration and members of the U.S. Congress, stands outside the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York February 6, 2013. People gathered to protest the enforcing of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 and the U.S. governments appeal of a judge's ruling that blocked the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects. The plaintiffs in the case said the law permits the military to arrest U.S. citizens for exercising their freedom of speech and of the press. Chris Hedges, former New York Times
strongMinneapolis:/strong US President Barack Obama pressed Congress on Monday to at least hold a vote on banning assault weapons, the most contentious part of his plan to curb gun violence in the United States. Obama's comments suggested a realisation in the White House that it will be difficult to get such a ban passed by lawmakers, despite consistent public support for the measure. [caption id=attachment_613939 align=alignleft width=380 strongMinneapolis:/strong US Presid
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: Postcards meant to be mailed to members of Congress advocating for stricter gun control laws are displayed at a rally on the National Mall on January 26, 2013 in Washington, DC. Demonstrators included survivors of the shooting at Virginia Tech, Newtown, Connecticut, and others. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: Postca