Congress

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**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, takes questions from reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference on Aug. 1, 2013, as Congress prepares to leave Washington for a five-week recess. (Associated Press)

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President Bush is applauded by Vice President Dick Cheney (left) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, of Ill. while delivering his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in 2004. (Associated Press)

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Jack N. Gerard of the American Petroleum Institute said Congress should act on bills that would end the renewable fuels standard. (The Washington Times)

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Ernest Hemingway stands on the Bridge of Sighs in Venice, Italy, in this 1950 photo taken by his friend Aaron Edward Hotchner. Unpublished material by Hemingway - stories, articles, photos, letters home movies, recordings and a longer version of his last bullfight book - is being given to the Library of Congress, a gift of his friend Hotchner. (AP Photo/Library of Congress, A.E. Hotchner)

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**FILE** Rep. Phil Roe, Tennessee Republican and a physician before being elected to Congress, delivers remarks during a news conference on Capitol Hill with fellow Republican members of the freshman class as they discuss health care overhaul in Washington on March 20, 2010. At right is Rep. John C. Fleming, Louisiana Republican, who was a family physician and former coroner before being elected to Congress. (Associated Press)

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"For years now we've been hearing about dysfunction in the Congress. We've all suffered in our public opinion polling and what people think of this place, and I think this process we've gone through in the last couple of days, last couple of weeks, are a real antidote to that," said Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona. (Associated Press)

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"With regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — that is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, would think would be wise policy," Attorney General Eric Holder said in his May 15 testimony to Congress on the Justice Department's probe into media leaks.

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Columnist Ernest Istook says Congress, on its own, has clear authority to arrest and jail former IRS official Lois Lerner until she testifies. (Associated Press)