Department Of The Interior

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President Barack Obama speaks at the 2013 Tribal Nations Conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, at the Interior Department in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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President Barack Obama speaks at the 2013 Tribal Nations Conference, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, at the Interior Department in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

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From left, Diane Millich, a member of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in Colorado and domestic abuse survivor, Attorney General Eric Holder, Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, listens to President Obama speaks at the Interior Department in Washington on March 7, 2013, before signing of the Violence Against Women Act. (Associated Press)

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Jarrod McKenna of Perth, Australia, jumps down from a wall after taking a photograph of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial on Tuesday, the day the Department of the Interior announced it will remove the controversial truncated “drum major” quote on the side of the memorial rather than replace it with the full quote. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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President Obama speaks Oct. 12, 2011, at the White House Forum on American Latino Heritage at the Interior Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. greets Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan during the opening session of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) on Monday, May 9, 2011, at the Interior Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Associated Press POWWOW: President Obama greets guests after speaking Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Interior Department.

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President Pro Tempore Senator Ted Stevens, and Department of the Interior Secretary Gale Norton, right, hold a news conference supporting arctic oil drilling outside the Russell Senate office building in NW Washington DC, Tuesday, March 15, 2005. ( Astrid Riecken / The Washington Times )