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Job seekers line up at a Little Rock, Ark., job fair. "Imposing mandates on employers to advance assorted social engineering agendas increases the cost of labor and discourages hiring," says Logan Delany, Jr. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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** FILE ** In this April 16, 2008, photo, Janet L. Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, speaks about foreclosures to the Bay Area Council Outlook Conference in Alameda, Calif. President Obama on Thursday, April 29, 2010, named Ms. Yellen to be vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve and filled two other vacancies at the central bank whose decisions influence economic activity, employment and inflation. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
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In this image made from video the U.S. Senate passes the health care overhaul bill Thursday Dec. 24, 2009. (AP photo/CSPAN)
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** FILE ** Workers prepare planes at the Continental terminal at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland in October 2005. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)
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** FILE ** Trays of printed Social Security checks wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Management Services facility in Philadelphia in 2005. (Associated Press)
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This artwork by M. Ryder relates to the debate about President Bush's proposal to partially privatize Social Security.
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**FILE** Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, speaks during a health-care-reform town-hall meeting in Waldorf, Md., on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Illustration: GOP Health Care by A. HUNTER for The Washington Times.
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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, a Republican, filed the lawsuit to strike down the federal health-care law in defense of a new state law that prohibits the government from forcing state residents to buy health insurance. (The Washington Times)
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**FILE** Maureen Sanders looks for postings at the Employment Connection Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, in Parma, Ohio. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill on June 2, 2009, before the House Health subcommittee hearing on health care reform. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** President Obama participates in an AARP town hall on health care on July 28, 2009, in Washington. (Associated Press)
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In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo, a Detroit woman holds a Employment Guide standing in line while attending a job fair in Livonia, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) **FILE**
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Sara Wade, an Illinois schoolteacher, is the sole breadwinner for son Dominic and daughter Genevieve, 10. She got divorced in 2004 and her former husband, a carpenter and contractor, hasn't been able to pay child support since January of 2009. April's strong employment growth showed women gained 86,000 jobs last month, far fewer than the 204,000 jobs gained by men, according to a Joint Economic Committee report. (Carrie Eccleston via Associated Press)
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Rep. Barbara Lee, California Democrat, disputed dubbing the measure a "jobs bill," and said the money should instead be used for job training and summer jobs. March 4, 2010. (Associated Press) File
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** FILE ** President Obama points out Energy Secretary Steven Chu as he delivers remarks on energy jobs during a visit to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 26 headquarters in Lanham, Md.
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Gerry Kraus, a registered nurse, joins hundreds of physicians in protesting plans for government reform of the health care system at a 2009 rally on Capitol Hill. (Allison Shelley/The Washington Times)
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Joseph Silverman / The Washington Times Bruce Allen is the first general manager Dan Snyder has hired to make the Redskins' personnel decisions.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS **FILE** Job seekers line up in front of a Dollar General booth at a Little Rock, Ark., job fair in October. Some economists and business executives warn that health care and climate-change costs on corporations would stifle the ability of employers to hire workers.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Valero Energy Corp.'s Delaware City, Del., refinery lost about $1 million every day this year. Falling fuel demand has forced refineries across the country to shut down and put hundreds of employees out of work.
