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President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrive for their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai takes questions from reporters during his joint news conference with President Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 11, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Vice President Joe Biden (second from right) speaks Jan. 10, 2013, during a meeting with Sportsmen and Women and Wildlife Interest Groups and member of his cabinet in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (Associated Press)

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President Obama (center), accompanied by outgoing Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner (left), announces in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, that he will nominate current White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew (right) as the next secretary of the treasury. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Joe Biden, second from right, gestures as he speaks during a meeting with Sportsmen and Women and Wildlife Interest Groups and member of his cabinet, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Vice President Joe Biden, center, with Attorney General Eric Holder at left, speaks during a meeting with victims' groups and gun safety organizations in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. Biden is holding a series of meetings this week as part of the effort he is leading to develop policy proposals in response to the Newtown, Conn., school shooting (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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**FILE** Vice President Joseph R. Biden, joined at the White House by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left), holds a meeting Jan. 9, 2013, with gun-safety advocates and victims' families. (Associated Press)

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White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)