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Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) speaks during an interview at his Capitol Hill office in the Rayburn Office building. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts testifies on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C., Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A red hat worn by Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) can be seen as Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts testifies at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas), left, and Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, right, greets Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts, center, before he testifies at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts, right, speaks with an aid before testifying at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Government Accountability Office International Affairs and Trade Acting Director Michael Courts testifies at a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in the Rayburn Office Building on the September 11, 2012 attack on the american consulate in Benghazi, Washington, D.C., Thursday, November 15, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton share a laugh before a press conference at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 17, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Tracy Martin (left) and Sybrina Fulton, parents of slain teen Trayvon Martin, sit March 27, 2012, at the witness table as they appear at a House briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (center), Texas Democrat, offers words to Tracy Martin (left) and Sybrina Fulton, parents of slain teen Trayvon Martin, as they appear March 27, 2012, at a House briefing at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Bernard Goldstein, professor and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, testifies Feb. 1, 2012, before the Energy and Environment Subcommittee at the Rayburn House Office Building in D.C., about the EPA's approach to ground-water research in Pavillion, Wyo. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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"As long as I have good health and the constituents give me their vote, then I'm serving," says Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett, Maryland Republican, leaving his office in the Rayburn House Office Building to head to a committee hearing on Capitol Hill this week. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)