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In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. He says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to pay the bonuses. -
FILE - In this June 6, 2013, file photo, a woman talks on the phone outside the U.S. Courthouse in Washington, where the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court resides. The obscure oversight board that President Barack Obama wants to scrutinize the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance system is little known for good reason. The U.S. Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has operated fitfully during its eight years of its low-profile existence, stymied by Congressional in-fighting and its work at times censored by government lawyers. The privacy board planned to meet privately Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in its first meeting since revelations that the NSA has been secretly collecting the phone records of millions of Americans: It was closed to the public. -
FILE - In this March 20, 2010, file photo. Rep. John C. Fleming, R-La., speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill with fellow Republican members as they discuss health care overhaul in Washington. House Republicans flexed their cultural and conservative muscles Tuesday, passing the most restrictive abortion measure in years. They also advanced legislation to crack down on immigrants living illegally in the country, even as senators pursue a plan that would offer those same millions a shot at citizenship. The actions reflect a roiling debate among Republicans over why they lost two elections to President Barack Obama, and how best to rebuild a winning formula. -
FILE - In this April 23, 2013, file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questions a witness during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans flexed their cultural and conservative muscles Tuesday, passing the most restrictive abortion measure in years. They also advanced legislation to crack down on immigrants living illegally in the country, even as senators pursue a plan that would offer those same millions a shot at citizenship. The actions reflect a roiling debate among Republicans over why they lost two elections to President Barack Obama, and how best to rebuild a winning formula. Graham, R-S.C., said that without "immigration reform" along the lines the Senate is weighing, "we're in a demographic death spiral as a party." -
Onlookers take snapshots as the motorcade carrying United States President Barack Obama passes the Brandenburg Gate after arriving in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Obama arrived for a two-day official visit to Germany and will deliver a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate Wednesday June 19, 2013. -
President Barack Obama is greeted by Ambassador Jurgen Mertens, German Chief of Protocol, upon his and his families arrival at Tegel International Airport in Berlin, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. Obama will also hold meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other government officials. He arrived in Berlin following a two-day summit of the Group of 8 industrial nations in Northern Ireland. -
FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Google workers ride bikes outside of Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, sharply challenged the federal government's gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a First Amendment right to divulge how many requests it receives from the government for data about its customers in the name of national security. -
Marine Col. Jon Aytes watches at left as Army Maj. Gen. Bennet Sacolick speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The military services announced their plans to break down the final barriers for women, opening up thousands of combat jobs including the elite Army Rangers and Navy SEAL. -
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
Jackelin Alfaro, 4, in a t-shirt that reads "Don't Deport my Dad" sits in the hall with family members outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee hearing will discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
The House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., accompanied by members of the GOP leadership, meet with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, following a Republican strategy session. From left are, Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., McConnell, and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. -
Vice President Joe Biden gestures to members of Congress in the audience as he speaks about gun violence, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws. Vice President Joe Biden was announcing Tuesday that the administration has completed or significantly advanced 21 of the 23 executive actions that Obama ordered in January in response to the Connecticut elementary school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six staff members. At right is Stephen Barton, who was a victim of gun violence in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting. -
Vice President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks about gun violence, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws. Vice President Joe Biden was announcing Tuesday that the administration has completed or significantly advanced 21 of the 23 executive actions that Obama ordered in January in response to the Connecticut elementary school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six staff members. -
Vice President Joe Biden gestures to Stephen Barton, who was a victim of gun violence in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, before speaking about gun violence, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws. Vice President Joe Biden was announcing Tuesday that the administration has completed or significantly advanced 21 of the 23 executive actions that Obama ordered in January in response to the Connecticut elementary school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six staff members. -
Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by Stephen Barton, who was a victim of gun violence in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting, speaks about gun violence, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. The White House is reporting progress on President Barack Obama's initiatives to reduce gun violence, but says the most important step would be getting a reluctant Congress to pass new firearms laws. Vice President Joe Biden was announcing Tuesday that the administration has completed or significantly advanced 21 of the 23 executive actions that Obama ordered in January in response to the Connecticut elementary school shooting that killed 20 first-graders and six staff members. -
French President Francois Hollande listens to questions from journalists at a media conference during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
G-8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy pose during a group photo opportunity at the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during a media conference after a G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
French President Francois Hollande speaks with journalists at a media conference during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a media conference at the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
Imam Al-Hajj Talib ' Abdur-Rashid, foreground right, and plaintiff Asad Dandia, center, confer during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files. -
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files. -
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files. -
Three Muslim women get together on a plaza at a gathering in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files. -
Hina Shamsi, left, director of the ACLU's National Security Project, addresses the media on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files. -
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files. -
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
FILE - In a Saturday, June 8, 2013 file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) during a news conference in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At center is former Sen. Bill Bradley. -
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at House Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday make their most concerted effort of the year to change U.S. abortion law with legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. -
House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. -
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, by National Security Agency (NSA) Gen. Keith B. Alexander during the committee's hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a media conference after a G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
Leaders of the G-8 member countries attend the second plenary work session at the G-8 Summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday June 18, 2013. Leaders are from left, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. -
G-8 leaders from left, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama leave the podium after a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
President Barack Obama walks with British Prime Minister David Cameron, center, and Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny at the site of the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria’s civil war. -
G-8 leaders from left, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, US President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy walk to a group photo opportunity during the G-8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The final day of the G-8 summit of wealthy nations is ending with discussions on globe-trotting corporate tax dodgers, a lunch with leaders from Africa, and suspense over whether Russia and Western leaders can avoid diplomatic fireworks over their deadlock on Syria?s civil war. -
From left, Deputy Attorney General James Cole; National Security Agency (NSA) Deputy Director Chris Inglis; NSA Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce; and Robert Litt, general counsel to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith B. Alexander approaches the witness table on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to testify before the House Intelligence Committee hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. listens to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, by National Security Agency (NSA) Gen. Keith B. Alexander during the committee's hearing regarding NSA surveillance. -
FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013, file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At right is former Sen. Bill Bradley. -
FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alexander will testify during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee Tuesday, June 18th. -
U.S. President Barack Obama gestures during a speech at the Belfast Waterfront on Monday, June 17, 2013, in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Obama is attending the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland where leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria, and free-trade issues. -
Protestors chant slogans as they stand outside a security fence on the perimeter of the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Monday, June 17, 2013. The summit is taking place under heavy security, with some 7,000 police lining roads and checking vehicles. -
A protestor stomps on razor wire outside of a security fence on the perimeter of the G-8 summit in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Monday, June 17, 2013. The summit is taking place under heavy security, with some 7,000 police lining roads and checking vehicles. -
Giant letters are set up during a demonstration in front of Enniskillen Castle, outside of the security perimeter of the G-8 summit, in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on Monday, June 17, 2013. The summit is taking place under heavy security, with some 7,000 police lining roads and checking vehicles. -
--FILE--People wait in line to vote at polling place located in a church in Phoenix in this Nov. 6, 2012, file photo. The Supreme Court ruled Monday, June 17, 2013, that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal "Motor Voter" voter registration law. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES -
FILE - In this May 17, 2013 file photo, Rep. Kenny Marchant, R-Texas speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican establishment hopes an overhaul of immigration laws will help the party run stronger presidential races. But that goal is about to hit big hurdles in the form of House Republicans. Many House Republicans are hostile to the bipartisan immigration bill before the Senate. Even substantial changes to it may do little to placate those who demand strict crackdowns on unlawful border crossings and no “amnesty” for people here illegally. -
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2004 file photo, Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga. speaks in Atlanta. The Republican establishment hopes an overhaul of immigration laws will help the party run stronger presidential races. But that goal is about to hit big hurdles in the form of House Republicans. Many House Republicans are hostile to the bipartisan immigration bill before the Senate. Even substantial changes to it may do little to placate those who demand strict crackdowns on unlawful border crossings and no “amnesty” for people here illegally -
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013 file photo, Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga. speaks in Atlanta. The Republican establishment hopes an overhaul of immigration laws will help the party run stronger presidential races. But that goal is about to hit big hurdles in the form of House Republicans. Many House Republicans are hostile to the bipartisan immigration bill before the Senate. Even substantial changes to it may do little to placate those who demand strict crackdowns on unlawful border crossings and no “amnesty” for people here illegally -
Greece's Left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras addresses his party's supporters during a rally outside Parliament demanding elections, in Athens on Monday June 17, 2013. Exactly one year ago, Greece’s conservative prime minister won the mandate to form a coalition government with a daunting brief: Restart punishing reforms, keep the debt-stifled country in the eurozone and end months of political chaos. The latter has proved harder, and Antonis Samaras is now making a last-ditch bid to quell a revolt by key allies over his decision to close the country’s state TV and radio broadcaster, axing nearly 2,700 jobs to meet austerity targets. -
Greece's Left-wing opposition leader Alexis Tsipras addresses his party's supporters during a rally outside Parliament demanding elections, in Athens on Monday June 17, 2013. Exactly one year ago, Greece’s conservative prime minister won the mandate to form a coalition government with a daunting brief: Restart punishing reforms, keep the debt-stifled country in the eurozone and end months of political chaos. The latter has proved harder, and Antonis Samaras is now making a last-ditch bid to quell a revolt by key allies over his decision to close the country’s state TV and radio broadcaster, axing nearly 2,700 jobs to meet austerity targets. -
A protester casts his shadow on a banner reading "ERT 3" during a protest in solidarity to the employees of Greek state broadcaster, ERT, in Thessaloniki, Sunday, June 15, 2013. Greece's fragile governing coalition failed to reach a compromise Wednesday about the closure of the state-run ERT broadcaster, that has left the government in a crisis that could lead to early elections, just a year after it was formed to save the country from bankruptcy. -
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2012 file photo, female soldiers from 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division train on a firing range while testing new body armor in Fort Campbell, Ky., in preparation for their deployment to Afghanistan. Women may be able to begin training as Army Rangers by mid-2015, and as Navy SEALs a year later under broad plans Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is approving that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in the country’s elite special operations forces, according to details of the plans submitted to Hagel that were obtained by The Associated Press. -
FILE – In this May 17, 2013 file photo Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey take turns talking to media during a news conference at the Pentagon. Women may be able to begin training as Army Rangers by mid-2015, and as Navy SEALs a year later under broad plans Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is approving that would slowly bring women into thousands of combat jobs, including those in the country’s elite special operations forces, according to details of the plans submitted to Hagel that were obtained by The Associated Press. -
Socialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos, right, arrives the Prime minister's office for a meeting in Athens, on Monday, June 17, 2013. Conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras meets with the leaders of two center-left parties in his year-old coalition. Both minority leaders have strongly opposed the prime minister’s decision last week to shut down the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp. or ERT. -
FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington scrutinized the very first application from a tea party group seeking tax-exempt status _ and dozens of others, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action, an IRS official has told congressional investigators. -
U.S. History students from Austin, Minn. High School visit the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2013, in anticipation of key decisions being announced. With a week remaining in the current Supreme Court term, several major cases are still outstanding that could have widespread political impact on same-sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. -
A police officer keeps watch outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 17, 2013. With a week remaining in the current Supreme Court term, several major cases are still outstanding that could have widespread political impact on same-sex marriage, voting rights, and affirmative action. -
FILE - This Feb. 11, 2009 file photo shows a shopper looking over the milk aisle at the Hunger Mountain Co-op in Montpelier, Vt. Approval of a massive farm bill _ and the cost of a gallon of milk _ could hinge on a proposed new dairy program the House is expected to vote on this week. -
FILE - These file photos shows Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., the Senators warned Sunday June 13, 2013 that Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support _ or sabotage _ the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate. (AP Photo/ -
FILE - In this March 5, 2013 file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaks in Washington. Menendez, on Sunday June 13, 2013 said "there'll never be a road to the White House for the Republican Party" if immigration overhaul fails to pass. -
FILE - In a Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Graham, on Sunday June 13, 2013 told conservatives who are trying to block the measure that they will doom the party and all but guarantee a Democrat will remain in the White House after 2016's election. -
In this photo taken March 12, 2013, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Intelligence Committee. During the public hearing a member of Congress asked Clapper if the National Security Agency collects data on millions of Americans. “No, sir,” said Clapper. Then, NSA programs that do precisely that are disclosed. But those programs are classified, and cannot be discussed in public hearings. -
FILE - In a June 12, 2013 file photo House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. An overhaul of dairy policy and a new insurance program for dairy farmers included in the farm bill has caused a rift between House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota. -
FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2012, file photo Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. In 2008. Hagan won a seat Republicans had held for nearly 40 years. But this election season the incumbent faces a very different climate: the GOP controls the state’s executive and legislative branches simultaneously for the first time since 1870. Republicans also hold nine of the state’s 13 U.S. House seats. And North Carolina, still recovering from the recession, voted for Obama in his first race, but narrowly backed Republican Mitt Romney for president last fall. -
This photo released by CBS News shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday June 16, 2013. On talk shows Sunday guests ranging from McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden said the government's reliance on data collection from both Americans and foreign nationals was constitutional and carefully overseen by executive, legislative and court authorities. -
This photo released by CBS News Sunday, June 16, 2013, shows White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington Sunday. On talk shows Sunday, guests ranging from McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden all said the government's reliance on data collection from both Americans and foreign nationals was constitutional and carefully overseen by executive, legislative and court authorities. -
FILE - In this Saturday, June 8, 2013, file photo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker announces his plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat that opened with the death of Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) in Newark, N.J. Booker, 44, is currently serving in his second term as mayor. At right is former Sen. Bill Bradley. -
FILE - In this April 30, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama answers questions at a White House news conference in Washington, where he strongly suggested he'd consider military action against Syria if it could be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's government used chemical weapons in the two-year-old civil war. Seeking to avoid getting sucked deeper into Syria's civil war, the Obama administration has long pointed to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq as a symbol of what can go wrong when America's military wades into Middle East conflicts. But experts say the White House is looking at the wrong Iraq war, especially as it weighs whether to impose a no-fly zone over Syria. -
FILE - In this file photo from Aug. 27, 1992, a year after the first Gulf War, U.S. President George H. Bush speaks at a White House news conference, wherein he announced a "no fly zone" over Iraq in which Iraqi warplanes would be shot down if they flew below the 32nd parallel. Though U.S. jets flew over the vast Iraqi desert every day for more than a decade, they could not prevent then-dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, from persecuting and killing hundreds of thousands of Shiites whom he viewed as a political threat to his regime. -
FILE - In this Sept. 30, 2002, file photo Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks at a Pentagon news conference to criticize Iraq for continuing to fire on U.S. and British warplanes patrolling over two no-fly zones. Ten years after the 1992 establishment of the first no-fly zone over Iraq, and despite daily U.S. jet flights to enforce it, the U.S. did not prevent then-dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Muslim, from persecuting and killing hundreds of thousands of Shiites whom he viewed as a political threat to his regime. That failure is now being used as a case in point of why the U.S. should, or shouldn't, police Syria's skies to prevent Syrian President Bashar Assad from accelerating a two-year death toll that last week reached 93,000. -
In this photo taken on June 10, 2013, a boy walks by a peace wall that divides the Protestant Cluan Place from the Catholic Short Strand area, in the Protestant Cluan Place area of East Belfast, Northern Ireland. When President Obama comes to Belfast, he’s expected to praise a country at peace and call for walls that separate Irish Catholics and British Protestants to come tumbling down. Barely a 10-minute walk from where the U.S. leader is speaking Monday, June 17, 2013, those walls have kept growing in size and number throughout two decades of slow-blooming peace. Residents on both sides of the battlements today insist they must stay to keep violence at bay. -
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012, file photo park rangers fold a flag over the casket bearing the remains of Mount Rainier National Park Ranger Margaret Anderson during a memorial service in Tacoma, Wash. Anderson, a 34-year-old mother of two, was shot and killed, when a car blew through the park visitor's checkpoint. Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police suffered more attacks and threats in 2012 than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers. Reported incidents at six land and water agencies increased by about 38 percent in 2012, compared to 2011, the group says, including 43 percent jumps at wildlife refuges and areas patrolled by U.S. park police. -
A TV screen shows the news of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, in the underground train in Hong Kong Sunday, June 16, 2013. Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries - and that gathered data is destroyed every five years. -
FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks to his senior staff to assert his expectations on ethics and conduct on the White House campus in Washington. Promising to reinvigorate the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Obama, issued an executive order his first day in office, and told all federal agencies to adopt a "presumption in favor of disclosure". A 2011 review of the administration's handling of public records requests under FOIA came to a jarring conclusion when actions were measured against words: "Most indicators of openness have not even returned to the average for the Bush years, a period known for secrecy." The report was by OMB Watch, now called the Center for Effective Government. -
FILE - In this March 31, 2011, file photo House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., right, seen with the committee's ranking Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., presides over the committee's hearing on the Freedom of Information Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. Acting on his promise to reinvigorate FOIA on his first day in office, President Barack Obama told all federal agencies to adopt a "presumption in favor of disclosure". -
Stephen Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists, poses in his office in Washington. Aftergood says the U.S. today has both the most open government in the world and arguably the most closed. The government, he says, puts more and better information online than ever before, but at the core, “Classification activity is very high. Secrecy has become an obstacle in many areas of public policy. And we still are living with a classification system that is a legacy of the Cold War era.” -
FILE - in this July 10, 2008, file photo President George W. Bush is applauded after signing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) at the White House in Washington. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court hears cases inside vaults in a federal courthouse. Legal justifications are classified, there's no lawyer countering the government's case for authority and the decisions are rarely made public. In one step toward openness, the Obama administration has disclosed some secret legal opinions, but only those from Bush's previous administration, like the treatment of terrorist detainees. From left are, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, obscured, Vice President Dick Cheney, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., the president, and House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. -
FILE - In this March 7, 2008, file photo, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., is interviewed after filing for re-election at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Pryor’s re-election race is not until 2014, but the Democratic incumbent seen as perhaps the most vulnerable then, is already taking hits from the right and the left. That’s forced the second-term senator to aggressively defend himself and step into re-election mode sooner than planned, even though he has no Republican opponent. -
FILE - In this file photo taken Aug. 31, 2007, U.S. Senator Mark Pryor, D-Ark., is interviewed in Little Rock, Ark.Pryor’s re-election race is not until 2014, but the Democratic incumbent seen as perhaps the most vulnerable then, is already taking hits from the right and the left. That’s forced the second-term senator to aggressively defend himself and step into re-election mode sooner than planned, even though he has no Republican opponent. -
FILE - This Thursday, June 6, 2013 file photo shows the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. When Edward Snowden - the 29-year-old intelligence contractor whose leak of top-secret documents has exposed sweeping government surveillance programs - went to Arundel High School, the agency regularly sent employees from its nearby black-glass headquarters to tutor struggling math students. -
A supporter of Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, shown in poster, attends a celebration gathering in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Moderate cleric Hasan Rowhani was declared the winner of Iran's presidential vote on Saturday after gaining support among many reform-minded Iranians looking to claw back a bit of ground after years of crackdowns. -
Former Gov. of Alaska Sarah Palin speaks during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Washington. Religious conservatives have been skeptical of the Republican National Committee's plan for growth, which calls for more tolerant attitudes on immigration and social issues, such as abortion and gay marriage. Palin, the conference's final speaker, rejected calls for an immigration overhaul, that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. -
Former Gov. of Alaska Sarah Palin, right in red, signs a poster for a supporter held by her husband Todd Palin, left, during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Washington. Religious conservatives have been skeptical of the RNC's plan for growth, which calls for more tolerant attitudes on immigration and social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, during the three-day gathering of social conservative leaders. Palin, the conference's final speaker, rejected calls for an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. -
Former Gov. of Alaska Sarah Palin waves to the audience during the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Washington. Religious conservatives have been skeptical of the RNC's plan for growth, which calls for more tolerant attitudes on immigration and social issues, such as abortion and gay marriage. Palin, the conference's final speaker, rejected calls for an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) -
Former Gov. of Alaska Sarah Palin, with her husband Todd Palin, top left, greets supporters after speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority 2013 conference, Saturday, June 15, 2013, in Washington. Religious conservatives have been skeptical of the RNC's plan for growth, which calls for more tolerant attitudes on immigration and social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. Palin, the conference's final speaker, rejected calls for an immigration overhaul that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. -
French Foreign Trade Minister Nicole Bricq, left, talks with Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, right, and Germany's State Secretary for Trade Anne Ruth Herkes, during the EU Trade ministers meeting in Luxembourg, Friday June 14, 2013. France enters a key meeting of European Union trade ministers bent on keeping its audiovisual industry out of trans-Atlantic free trade negotiations, a move that would delay any opening of sweeping talks with the United States. -
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FILE - In this May 13, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, walk off the stage after their joint White House news conference, where they spoke about Syria's civil war and other topics. Obama will be joining global leaders in Northern Ireland Monday, June 17, 2013, for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit of the world's top industrial nations, where after months of caution he is suddenly positioned more aggressively on Syria. He's expected to prod Britain and France to follow his lead in trying to arm the Syrian rebels, and press Russia to end its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. -
FILE - In this May 19, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama, center, with French President Francois Hollande, left, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, leads the first meeting of the G-8 Summit at Camp David, Md. Obama will be joining global leaders in Northern Ireland Monday, June 17, 2013, for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit of the world's top industrial nations, where after months of caution he is suddenly positioned more aggressively on Syria. He's expected to prod Britain and France to follow his lead in trying to arm the Syrian rebels, and press Russia to end its support of Syrian President Bashar Assad. -
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media after his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, unseen, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Russia's foreign minister says the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesn't meet stringent criteria for reliability. -
FILE - In this June 18, 2012, file photo President Barack Obama and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, left, go to shake hands during their bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. Obama will be joining global leaders in Northern Ireland Monday, June 17, 2013, for the Group of Eight (G-8) summit of the world's top industrial nations, where after months of caution he is suddenly positioned more aggressively on Syria. He's expected to prod Britain and France to follow his lead in trying to arm the Syrian rebels, and press Russia to end its support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. -
FILE - In this June 3, 2013, file photo House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., right, talks with the chairman of the committee that funds the IRS, Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla., the House Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, on Capitol Hill in Washington during a hearing with acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel. Republicans have fought the health care law since it was enacted in 2010 without a single GOP vote. Now the IRS scandals are getting some Republicans a timely excuse to to starve it by refusing funding for its implementation. “I think it’s safe to say they’re (IRS) not going to get the kind of increase they’re asking for,” said Crenshaw, R-Fla. “The question is, based on their bad behavior, are they going to end up with less money?” he said. -
In this photo taken May 21, 2013, Senate Finance Committee ranking member, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, listens to testimony at the committee's hearing on the IRS's targeting of applicants for tax exempt status. “The bottom line here is that the IRS can barely manage what it already has to do, and that’s a generous characterization given the targeting of conservative groups,” said Hatch, whose committee oversees the IRS. “Adding Obamacare under the IRS, that can only be described as a looming disaster,” he said. “And now the Democrats are saying we need to give the IRS more money. I’m not sure I’m willing to do that.” -
In this photo taken June 4, 2013, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., asks a question during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the unfair targeting by the IRS of organizations seeking tax-exempt status on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats in Congress said they are growing tired of Republican attempts to repeal the President Barack Obama's health care law. “The American people will see over the next six months the lengths the Republicans will go to destroy the implementation of the Affordable Care Act,” said McDermott. “I’ve expected it from the first day this (IRS) issue came up.” -
FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2008, file photo President Bush waves after signing a 15-day extension of the Protect America Act after a speech in Las Vegas. Sternly prodding Congress, Bush told lawmakers they were jeopardizing the nation's safety by failing to lock in the government eavesdropping law. When the Protect America Act made warrantless wiretapping legal, lawyers and executives at major technology companies knew what was about to happen. They didn't know that its passage gave birth to a top-secret NSA program, officially labeled US-98XN. It was known as Prism. -
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2008, file photo President Bush speaks about the "Protect America Act" outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. When the Protect America Act made warrantless wiretapping legal, lawyers and executives at major technology companies knew what was about to happen. They didn't know that its passage gave birth to a top-secret NSA program, officially labeled US-98XN. It was known as Prism. -
President Barack Obama holds a child a he mingles in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, June 14, 2013, where he hosted a Father's Day luncheon. Obama hosted fathers and their children as well as students and leaders from the Becoming a Man program at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago for the lunch. -
FILE - In this May 2, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with Michael Froman, his nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, during a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House. Obama is pushing to liberalize global trade through the elimination of tariffs and other barriers, long the plague of economic relations. The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with Europe will be a top item this coming week in Northern Ireland at the Group of Eight summit of major Western democracies. -
FILE - In this May 13, 2013, file photo President Barack Obama and visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, shake hands at the end of a joint White House news conference on subjects ranging from Syria's civil war to preparations for a coming Group of Eight summit in Northern Ireland. Obama is aggressively pushing an ambitious agenda to liberalize global trading. But there's trouble ahead, both at the negotiating table and from Congress, but from Democrats, and not from his usual antagonists, Republicans. Obama's free-trade proposals with Europe and Asia could together affect up to two-thirds of all global trade. -
In this June 11, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, prior to his upcoming trip to Europe. The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with Europe will be a top item this coming week in Northern Ireland at the Group of Eight summit of major Western democracies. The deal has raised great expectations of boosting growth and jobs by eliminating tariffs and other barriers that have long plagued economic relations. But there's trouble ahead, both at the negotiating table and from Congress with fellow Democrats, rather than his usual Republican antagonists. -
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2009, file photo, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, talks about his trip on Wednesday to Bethel and Hooper Bay in Anchorage, Alaska. Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama’s health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism. Begich, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina will face voters in 2014 for the first time since voting for the Affordable Care Act _ commonly called Obamacare _ three years ago. -
FILE - In this June 13, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C. as he arrives at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, in Morrisville, N.C. Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed Obama’s health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism. Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Hagan will face voters in 2014 for the first time since voting for the Affordable Care Act _ commonly called Obamacare _ three years ago. -
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2009, file photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., speaks at a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama’s health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism. Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina will face voters in 2014 for the first time since voting for the Affordable Care Act _ commonly called Obamacare _ three years ago. -
Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013. Clinton was joined by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, speaks while former President Bill Clinton listens during the Clinton Global Initiative America's meeting, Friday, June 14, 2013, in Chicago. Clinton and Christie held a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
Former President Bill Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013. Clinton was joined by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in the closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, speaks while former President Bill Clinton listens during the Clinton Global Initiative America's meeting in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013. Clinton and Christie held a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative America's meeting, Friday, June 14, 2013, in Chicago. Former President Clinton and Christie held a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative America's meeting, Friday, June, 14, 2013, in Chicago. Former President Clinton and Christie held a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative America's meeting in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013, as former President Bill Clinton listens. Christie is walking a political tightrope as he charts his future, trying to balancer his re-election campaign in a Democratic-leaning state with a potential presidential bid aimed at winning over Republicans. Clinton and Christie held a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
FILE - In this June 11, 2013, file photo House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., is followed by reporters as he arrives for a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rogers announced Friday, June 14, 2013, he will not run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan next year, telling supporters in a note that the best way for him to have a direct impact in Washington is to stay in the House. -
Former President Bill Clinton, right, shakes New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's hand as he arrives on stage during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013. Clinton and Christie spoke during a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, speaks while former President Bill Clinton listens during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013. Clinton and Christie held a closing session titled "Cooperation and Collaboration: A Conversation on Leadership." -
Egyptian Salafis shout slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad as one waves a Syrian revolutionary flag during a rally after the Friday prayers at Amr Ibn Al As mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 14, 2013. Syrians are being killed at an average rate of 5,000 per month, the United Nation said Thursday as it raised the overall death toll in the civil war to nearly 93,000, with civilians bearing the brunt of the attacks. -
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013 file photo, then-Rep.-elect Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found guilty of rape or sexual assault as outrage over the crisis in the military has galvanized Congress. Duckworth, who lost both legs and partial use of an arm in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq, told her colleagues in the final moments of debate on Friday, "This is a self-inflicted wound that has no place in the military". -
President Barack Obama greets guests, including fathers and their children participants in the Becoming a Man (BAM) program at Hyde Park Academy in Chicago, Friday, June 14, 2013, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, where the president hosted a Father's Day luncheon. -
FILE - In this April 24, 2013 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Dallas. Speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington Friday Bush said that immigrants are particularly important to help create more taxpayers to fund the safety net for the large, retiring baby boomer generation. -
FILE - In this June 4, 2013, file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. asks a question of a witness during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on legislation regarding sexual assaults in the military. Siding with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday, June 12, 2013, to keep commanders involved in deciding whether to prosecute sexual assault cases, rejecting an aggressive plan to stem sex-related crimes in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice system. By a vote of 17-9, the committee passed a bill crafted by its chairman, Levin, designed to increase pressure on senior commanders to prosecute sexual assault cases by requiring a top-level review if they fail to do so. -
This May 21, 2013 photo shows, Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Jerry Goldman at his home in Evanston, Ill. Goldman is the mastermind behind the Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent, a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. The Oyez Project has spent years assembling and making available online audio recordings of U.S. Supreme Court proceedings going back to 1955. It's now finishing work that makes the recordings more accessible, linking transcripts matched to the audio and completing the painstaking work of identifying each speaker. The website gets approximately 600,000 visitors a month. -
This May 21, 2013 photo shows, Chicago-Kent College of Law Professor Jerry Goldman at his home in Evanston, Ill. Goldman is the mastermind behind the Oyez Project at Chicago-Kent, a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. The Oyez Project has spent years assembling and making available online audio recordings of U.S. Supreme Court proceedings going back to 1955. It's now finishing work that makes the recordings more accessible, linking transcripts matched to the audio and completing the painstaking work of identifying each speaker. The website gets approximately 600,000 visitors a month. -
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009, file photo, Daniel Ellsberg speaks during an interview in Los Angeles. Disclosure of secret National Security Agency surveillance programs isn’t the first time the government has been caught spying on Americans or that classified government information has been leaked. The Vietnam War and civil-rights protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s generated plenty of surveillance and secrecy. And leaks. Former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg was indicted for leaking classified government information about the Vietnam War in 1971 to The New York Times and other newspapers. -
FILE - In this June 5, 2013, file photo Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., after the third day of his court martial. Disclosure of secret National Security Agency surveillance programs isn’t the first time the government has been caught spying on Americans or that classified government information has been leaked. The Vietnam War and civil-rights protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s generated plenty of surveillance and secrecy. And leaks. In June 2010, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was arrested for giving WikiLeaks more than 700,000 classified battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and video clips while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad. -
This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 9, 2013. Disclosure of secret National Security Agency surveillance programs isn’t the first time the government has been caught spying on Americans or that classified government information has been leaked. The Vietnam War and civil-rights protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s generated plenty of surveillance and secrecy. And leaks. (AP Photo/The Guardian) MANDATORY CREDIT -
FILE - In this May 19, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama, third from left, participates in a luncheon at the G-8 Summit at Camp David, Md. A year after Obama made an emphatic pitch to Europe’s economic powers to focus more on economic growth than austerity, much of the eurozone remains mired in or near recession. Obama’s appeals have had mixed results in softening the demands on some of the most debt-ridden European nations to cut their spending. From left are, French President Francois Hollande, Benin President Yayi Boni, Ghanaian President John Atta Mills, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Eleni Gabre Madhin, CEO of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo. -
Arizona State Rep's Adam Kwasman, R-Oro Valley, center, John Kavanaugh, R-Fountain Hills, left, and John Allen, R-Scottsdale, speak during a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
Arizona House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden speaks during a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
Arizona House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden speaks on the floor during a recess prior to a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
The Arizona Senate breaks for caucus during a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
Arizona House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden speaks with Rep. Bob Robson, R-Chandler, during a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
The Arizona House meets during a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
Arizona House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, right, and Minority Leader Rep. Chad Campbell, D-Phoenix, laugh as they meet in a special session for Medicaid funding on Thursday, June 13, 2013, in Phoenix. -
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., second from left, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turns to answer a question as she leaves a meeting regarding National Security Agency programs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, leaves a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting regarding NSA programs, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
President Barack Obama, right, with Vice President Joe Biden, on stage speaking at a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Pride month, Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
Vice President Joe Biden, left, pats President Barack Obama, right, on the chest while he speaks at a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Pride month, Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
Gen. Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency, center, leaves a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting regarding NSA programs, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaks to the media after attending a meeting regarding National Security Agency programs, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, right, leaves a Senate Intelligence Committee meeting regarding National Security Agency programs, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
From right, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., actor and political activist Lynda Carter, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, join singer Mary Wilson, far left, and dance to The Supremes song "Stop in the Name of Love," during a celebration of the career of veteran congressman John Dingell, in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. -
Mary Wilson of the 1960s group The Supremes, sings to Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., center, who recently became the longest-serving member of Congress, as he is celebrated on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, watches at left. Dingell, now 86, says he has no plans to retire as the representative of Michigan's 12th District that takes in Dearborn and Ypsilanti. -
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The fight for the direction of the Republican Party will be on display Thursday at a Washington conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group created by former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. Designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics, the conference gives many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. -
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The fight for the direction of the Republican Party will be on display Thursday at a Washington conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group created by former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. Designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics, the conference gives many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. -
FILE - In this April 30, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 30, 2013. U.S. officials said June 13, 2013, that the Obama administration has concluded that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons against the opposition seeking to overthrow him, crossing what Obama called a 'red line'. -
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., who recently became the longest-serving member of Congress, is celebrated by colleagues, including Vice President Joe Biden, right, and Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, left, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. A former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Dingell, now 86, says he has no plans to retire as the representative of Michigan's 12th District that takes in Dearborn and Ypsilanti. -
Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., who recently became the longest-serving member of Congress in history, takes his seat as he is celebrated by colleagues, including Vice President Joe Biden, left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. A former chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, Dingell, now 86, says he has no plans to retire as the representative of Michigan's 12th District that takes in Dearborn and Ypsilanti. -
FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, Senate Appropriations Committee member, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee listen to testimony on Capitol Hill in Washington where Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee. Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck finding solid answers. Americans trying to wrap their minds around two giant surveillance programs are confronted with a mishmash of leaks, changing claims and secrecy. Congress members complain their constituents are baffled _ and many lawmakers admit they are, too. -
FILE - In this June 10, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck finding solid answers. Americans trying to wrap their minds around two giant surveillance programs are confronted with a mishmash of leaks, changing claims and secrecy. Congress members complain their constituents are baffled _ and many lawmakers admit they are, too. -
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, National Intelligence Director James Clapper prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck finding solid answers. Americans trying to wrap their minds around two giant surveillance programs are confronted with a mishmash of leaks, changing claims and secrecy. Congress members complain their constituents are baffled _ and many lawmakers admit they are, too. -
FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck finding solid answers. Americans trying to wrap their minds around two giant surveillance programs are confronted with a mishmash of leaks, changing claims and secrecy. Congress members complain their constituents are baffled _ and many lawmakers admit they are, too. -
FILE - In this April 23, 2013 file photo, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., questions a witness during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck finding solid answers. Americans trying to wrap their minds around two giant surveillance programs are confronted with a mishmash of leaks, changing claims and secrecy. Congress members complain their constituents are baffled _ and many lawmakers admit they are, too. -
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The former first lady and potential 2016 White House contender offered her most extensive description of her post-Obama administration agenda since leaving her role as the nation's top diplomat. -
FBI Director Robert Mueller is sworn in on on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee as it holds an oversight hearing on the FBI. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency that is conducting high-profile investigations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and leaks of classified government information. The committee's chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said when it comes to national security leaks, it's important to balance the need to protect secrecy with the need to let the news media do their job. -
FBI Director Robert Mueller pauses during a heated exchange with House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, over Gohmert's questions about FBI intelligence gathering on the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, Thursday, June 13, 2013, during the committee's oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency and lawmakers had questions about the Boston attack, secretly gathered phone records of The Associated Press, the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and leaks of classified government information. -
FBI Director Robert Mueller has a heated exchange with House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, over Gohmert's questions about FBI intelligence gathering on the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, Thursday, June 13, 2013, during the committee's oversight hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency and lawmakers had questions about the Boston attack, secretly gathered phone records of The Associated Press, the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and leaks of classified government information. -
FILE - In this June 6, 2013 file photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rogers says those who want to harm the U.S. are already changing their behavior after leaks about classified U.S. surveillance programs, also saying it's part of the damage from disclosures by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden of two NSA programs that collect millions of telephone records and track Internet activity. He gave no details. -
Jillian Soto, center, with siblings Carlee Soto, left and Carlos Soto, the siblings of Victoria Soto, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, on the sixth month anniversary of the Newtown, Conn. shootings. -
Teresa Rousseau, mother of Lauren Rousseau, is greeted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, with members of Congress and families ad friends of the Newtown, Conn. shooting on the six month anniversary of the shootings. -
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center, greets attendees as he is followed by Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, left, after he spoke at the "Road to Majority" conference in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The fight for the direction of the Republican Party will be on display Thursday at a Washington conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group created by former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. Designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics, the conference gives many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. -
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The fight for the direction of the Republican Party will be on display Thursday at a Washington conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group created by former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. Designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics, the conference gives many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. -
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The fight for the direction of the Republican Party will be on display Thursday at a Washington conference hosted by the Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group created by former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed. Designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics, the conference gives many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. -
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Meeting in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2013. The former first lady offered her most extensive description of her post-Obama administration agenda since leaving her role as the nation's top diplomat. -
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton listens to Eva Longoria during a panel at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2013. During this opening session, Clinton was joined by other politicians and business leaders to discuss new ways to achieve economic and social mobility. -
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2013. During this opening session, politicians and business leaders to discussed new ways to achieve economic and social mobility. -
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2013. During this opening session, Clinton was joined by other politicians and business leaders to discuss new ways to achieve economic and social mobility. -
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., accompanied by families and friends of the Newtown, Conn. shooting victims, including siblings of Victoria Soto, Jillian Soto, left, Carlee Soto, and Carlos Soto, gestures as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, on the six month anniversary of the Newtown shooting. -
Supporters and family members of the Newtown, Conn. shooting victims form a human "ribbon" on the West Front of the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, looking toward the Washington Monument, on the sixth month anniversary of the Newtown shootings. -
Jillian Soto, left, and Carlee Soto, sisters of Newtown, Conn. shooting victim Victoria Soto, hold hands during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 13, 2013, with member of Congress and Newtown families on the six month anniversary of the Newtown shootings,. -
The destroyed landscape near river Elbe in Niegripp, Germany, after the flooding, photographed Thursday June 13, 2013. A German official says the country plans to create an 8 billion euro ($10.6 billion) emergency fund to pay for damage caused by recent flooding. Thuringia state Governor Christine Lieberknecht gave the figure Thursday after a meeting of the leaders of Germany's 16 states and the country's finance minister, news agency dpa reported. She said financing details have yet to be finalized. -
A destroyed street is photographed at river Elbe in Niegripp, Germany, after the flooding Thursday June 13, 2013. A German official says the country plans to create an 8 billion euro ($10.6 billion) emergency fund to pay for damage caused by recent flooding. Thuringia state Governor Christine Lieberknecht gave the figure Thursday after a meeting of the leaders of Germany's 16 states and the country's finance minister, news agency dpa reported. She said financing details have yet to be finalized. -
FILE - In this June 7, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures as he talks about the Affordable Care Act in San Jose, Calif. President Barack Obama's health care law is called the Affordable Care Act, but a glitch could make it unaffordable for many low-wage workers, including employees at big chain restaurants, retail stores and hotels. -
Helpers recover a tree in the floods of the river Elbe in Hitzacker, northern Germany, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Weeks of heavy rain this spring have sent the Elbe, the Danube and other rivers such as the Vltava and the Saale overflowing their banks, causing extensive damage in central and southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. -
FILE - In this May 16, 2013 file photo, FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Appropriations, Commerce, Justice, Science subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2014 budget request for the FBI. Mueller is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency that is conducting high-profile investigations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans and leaks of classified government information. On Thursday, June 13, 2013, Mueller was to undergo questioning by the House Judiciary Committee on these and other issues in what will be his final appearance before the panel. His last day on the job is Sept. 4. -
In this June 11, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. One of the big goals of President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Europe may be in jeopardy with French objections threatening to hold up the launch of negotiations on a sweeping U.S.-European Union free trade pact. The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership has raised great expectations of boosting growth and jobs by eliminating tariffs and other barriers that have long plagued economic relations. -
FILE - In this March 7, 2011 file photo, Ralph Reed, president of the national Faith & Freedom Coalition, speaks at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition forum at the Point of Grace Church in Waukee, Iowa. The Faith and Freedom Coalition launches a conference Thursday, June 13, 2013, designed to strengthen the evangelical influence in national politics, while giving many religious conservative activists their first look at potential 2016 presidential candidates. -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, answers questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. It is his first public appearance before Congress since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. At right is Rand Beers, under secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. -
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., right, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, right, and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., listen to testimony from Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, as he answers questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Appropriations Committee. -
Senate Appropriations Committee member Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. questions Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, during the committee's hearing on cybersecurity and funding, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., watches at right. It is the first public appearance by an NSA official since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. -
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, opens a hearing on cybersecurity with Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, as a primary witness, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. -
Senate Appropriations Committee member Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., holds up his Verizon cell phone as he questions Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Gen. Keith B. Alexander, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, as Alexander testified before the committee's hearing on NSA surveillance. -
From left, Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Gen. Keith B. Alexander; Rand Beers, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security; Patrick Gallagher, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology; and Richard McFeely, Executive Assistant Director of Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on NSA surveillance. -
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md. holds up her BlackBerry as she responds to a tweet she just received during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, with Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Gen. Keith B. Alexander, Rand Beers, Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Patrick Gallagher, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Richard McFeely, Executive Assistant Director of Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, as they testify about NSA surveillance. -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, prepares to answer questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Appropriations Committee. It is his first public appearance before Congress since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. At right is Rand Beers, under secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, to testify before the Senate Appropriations Committee, his first public appearance since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. He is joined by Rand Beers, seated at right, the under secretary for the Department of Homeland Security. -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, answers questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Appropriations Committee. It is his first public appearance before Congress since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. Also at the table are Rand Beers, under secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and Patrick Gallagher, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. -
Eric Glatt, a Georgetown Law student, poses for a photograph on their campus, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 in Washington. Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent grads looking to get a foot in the door in the entertainment, publishing and other prominent industries, even if it takes a generous subsidy from Mom and Dad. But those days of working for free could be numbered after a federal judge in New York ruled this week that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns who worked on production of the 2010 movie "Black Swan." Glatt was one of the interns. -
Eric Glatt, a Georgetown Law student, poses for a photograph on their campus, Wednesday, June 12, 2013 in Washington. Unpaid internships have long been a path of opportunity for students and recent grads looking to get a foot in the door in the entertainment, publishing and other prominent industries, even if it takes a generous subsidy from Mom and Dad. But those days of working for free could be numbered after a federal judge in New York ruled this week that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns who worked on production of the 2010 movie "Black Swan." Glatt was one of the interns. -
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2004 file photo, Tom Moore rides through downtown Fernley, Nev., with his daughters, Bridget and Meara. In a reversal of fortunes due to the recent recession, rural America is now losing population, in towns like Fernley, for the first time, because of waning interest among millions of baby boomers in moving to far-flung locations for retirement and recreation. -
The picture of Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee who leaked top-secret documents about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs, is displayed on the front page of South China Morning Post at a news stand in Hong Kong Thursday, June 13, 2013. Snowden dropped out of sight after checking out of a Hong Kong hotel on Monday. The South China Morning Post newspaper said it was able to locate and interview him on Wednesday. It provided brief excerpts from the interview on its website. -
House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, right, and Speaker Pro-Tempore Rep. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, listen as debate continues on the House floor in a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, right, confers with Speak Pro-Tempore Rep. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, and Majority Whip Rep. Rick Gray, R-Sun City, left, in a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
Rep. Macario Saldate, D-Tucson, rubs his eyes during a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
Rep. Frank Pratt, R-Casa Grande, middle, speaks as Rep. Ethan Orr, R-Tucson, right, listens while Rep. Karen Fann, R-Prescott, adjusts amendment paperwork in a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
In this photo provided by by Ariz. Rep. Jeff Dial, Gov. Jan Brewer signs a proclamation calling the Legislature into special session, Tuesday, June 11, 2013, in Phoenix. Brewer acted after weeks of House delays in considering the state budget and her Medicaid expansion proposal. -
Rep. Karen Fann, R-Prescott, left, rips up an amendment to a bill that is pulled prior to vote, as Rep. Frank Pratt, R-Casa Grande, looks up in a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, front, looks up at the vote board as Rep. Doris Goodale, R-Kingman, listens to debate in a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
House Speaker Rep. Andy Tobin, R-Paulden, right, talks with Majority Whip Rep. Rick Gray, R-Sun City, left, and Majority Leader Rep. David Gowan, Sr., R-Sierra Vista, in a special session budget battle for Medicaid funding on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Phoenix. The Arizona Legislature is on track to pull an all-nighter and work into Thursday to finish a state budget and approve Medicaid expansion. -
President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Ed Markey wave during a campaign rally For Markey in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Obama is stumping for Markey hoping to give him an edge over Republican Gabriel Gomez in Massachusetts' U.S. Senate special election. -
President Barack Obama speaks during a campaign rally for Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Ed Markey in Boston, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Markey is competing against former Navy SEAL Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez. -
President Barack Obama waves as he arrives at Miami International Airport in Miami, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The president is attending a fundraiser in Miami Beach Wednesday night. -
President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in support of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Edward Markey at a rally in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Obama is stumping for Markey hoping to give him an edge over Republican Gabriel Gomez in Massachusetts' U.S. Senate special election. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola -
Protesters form a human chain in front of police forces at Taksim Square in Istanbul late Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Turkey's government on Wednesday offered a first concrete gesture aimed at ending nearly two weeks of street protests, proposing a referendum on a development project in Istanbul that triggered demonstrations that have become the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 10-year tenure. -
This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 9, 2013. The man who told the world about the U.S. government’s gigantic data grab also talked a lot about himself. Mostly through his own words, a picture of Edward Snowden is emerging: fresh-faced computer whiz, high school and Army dropout, independent thinker, trustee of official secrets. And leaker on the lam. (AP Photo/The Guardian) MANDATORY CREDIT -
Protest banners lean against a wall as supporters of ERT, the Greek state-run TV and radio company, gather to take part in a protest outside the Greek embassy in London, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Greece's conservative-led government was facing a political crisis Wednesday after its decision to shut down state-run TV and radio triggered a wave of strikes and fierce opposition from within the coalition government. TV and radio signals from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., or ERT, went dead early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the broadcaster down and fired its 2,500 workers, citing the need to cut "incredible waste". -
A young woman stands at the entrance of Greek state television ERT headquarters during rainfall in Athens, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. Greece's conservative-led government was facing a political crisis Wednesday after its decision to shut down state-run TV and radio as part of spending cuts triggered a wave of strikes and fierce opposition from within the coalition government. -
Journalists watch monitors with an online video stream of a program produced by laid off state TV workers, in the public Greek ET3 studios in northern city of Thessaloniki Greece on Thursday, June 12, 2013. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. -
Greek Socialist Party PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, right, welcomes Demokratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis prior to a meeting in the Parliament to discuss developments after the decision of the Coalition Government that they both support to shut down Greek State Radio and Television. The Democratic Left has already submitted legislation in parliament to cancel the order. -
Greek Socialist Party PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, talks to reporters after his meeting with Demokratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis at Parliament, Athens, Greece, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, to discuss developments after the decision of the Coalition Government that they both support to shut down Greek State Radio and Television. The Democratic Left has already submitted legislation in parliament to cancel the order. -
People sit in front of a huge screen showing a state TV broadcast at the Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. Greece’s two largest labor unions called a 24-hour general strike for Thursday amid escalating protests against a decision to close state-run TV and radio that threw the country’s conservative-led government into political crisis nearly a year after taking office. -
A monitor that used to show state TV broadcaste in the ERT news room reads in Greek "weak or non existent signal" at the Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Journalists fired from Greeceís state TV and radio refused to leave the broadcasterís headquarters, continuing Internet programming, as the countryís conservative-led government faced political crisis a year after taking office. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. -
TV workers shout slogans during a protest outside the Greek state television ERT 3 headquarters after the government's decision to shut down the broadcaster in Thessaloniki, on Thursday, June 12, 2013. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. -
Supporters of ERT, the Greek state-run TV and radio company, hold up a banner for it to be photographed as they take part in a protest outside the Greek embassy in London, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Greece's conservative-led government was facing a political crisis Wednesday after its decision to shut down state-run TV and radio triggered a wave of strikes and fierce opposition from within the coalition government. TV and radio signals from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., or ERT, went dead early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the broadcaster down and fired its 2,500 workers, citing the need to cut "incredible waste". -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine cybersecurity, focusing on preparing for and responding to the enduring threat. -
Senate Appropriations Committee member Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. holds up his Verizon cell phone as he asks a question of Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, during the committee's hearing on cybersecurity and funding, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., watches at right. It is the first public appearance by an NSA official since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. -
FILE - In this Nov. 28, 2012 file photo, then-acting CIA Director Michael Morell walks in the hallway of the CapitolHill in Washington. Morell, now the CIA deputy director, retired from his post Wednesday, after managing the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus over an extramarital affair, and defending the agency's performance over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. -
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. gestures as he speaks at a forum on immigration organized by the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington. -
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. speaks at a forum on immigration organized by the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington. -
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. gestures as he answers a question about immigration reform legislation after speaking at a forum on immigration organized by the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Washington. -
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, center, accompanied by House Republican Conference Vice Chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., left, and Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. -
In this photo released by the Turkish Prime Minister's Press Office, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and some of his ministers and advisors meet with with a group of activists in his offices at his Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. There was no official announcement as to who exactly was be taking part _ and whether the meeting would be able to broker an end to the protests. Activists had doubts about the talks' legitimacy. An actor and a singer _ with unclear connections to the protesters _ had agreed to take part, and some leaders of civil society groups, including Greenpeace, had said they would not participate because of an “environment of violence” in Turkey. -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, answers questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. It is his first public appearance before Congress since revelations that the electronic surveillance agency is sweeping up Americans' phone and Internet records in its quest to investigate terrorist threats. Left to right are Gen. Keith B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, Rand Beers, under secretary for the Department of Homeland Security, and Patrick Gallagher, director of the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology. -
Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he speaks during a joint news conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Kerry hosted a meeting with Hague, an ally equally unsure about what to do to end fighting in Syria that has now killed some 80,000 people. -
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a media appearance with British Foreign Secretary William Hague, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. Kerry hosted a meeting with Hague, an ally equally unsure about what to do to end fighting in Syria that has now killed some 80,000 people. -
British Foreign Secretary William Hague speaks during a news conference with Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Departmet in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Kerry hosted a meeting with Hague, an ally equally unsure about what to do to end fighting in Syria that has now killed some 80,000 people. -
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, meets with Sandy Hook, Conn. Elementary School, families and friends of victims on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The group joined policymakers and advocates on Capitol Building for a day-long event to remember the 26 children and educators tragically murdered last December in Newtown, Conn. -
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, after meeting with families and friends of victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Newtown, Conn. -
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, meets with Sandy Hook, Conn. Elementary School, families and friends of victims on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The group joined policymakers and advocates on Capitol Building for a day-long event to remember the 26 children and educators tragically murdered last December in Newtown, Conn. -
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., right, meets with Sandy Hook, Conn. Elementary School, families and friends of victims on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. The group joined policymakers and advocates on Capitol Building for a day-long event to remember the 26 children and educators tragically murdered last December in Newtown, Conn. -
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, after meeting with families and friends of victims from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Newtown, Conn. -
Gen. Keith B. Alexander, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing to examine cybersecurity, focusing on preparing for and responding to the enduring threat. -
FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo shows a sign outside the National Security Administration (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Massive government surveillance of Americans' phone and internet activity is drawing protests from civil liberties groups, but major legal obstacles stand in the way of any full-blown court hearing on the practice. Among them: government claims that national security secrets will be revealed if the cases are allowed to proceed. The Supreme Court, where several justices have written about complex issues of privacy in the digital age, could be the ultimate stop for such lawsuits. -
FILE - In this May 2, 2013 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is seen at Metro State University in Denver. Massive government surveillance of Americans' phone and internet activity is drawing protests from civil liberties groups, but major legal obstacles stand in the way of any full-blown court hearing on the practice. Among them: government claims that national security secrets will be revealed if the cases are allowed to proceed. The Supreme Court, where several justices have written about complex issues of privacy in the digital age, could be the ultimate stop for such lawsuits. -
FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2012 file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito speaks at Roger Williams University Law School in Bristol, R.I. Massive government surveillance of Americans' phone and internet activity is drawing protests from civil liberties groups, but major legal obstacles stand in the way of any full-blown court hearing on the practice. Among them: government claims that national security secrets will be revealed if the cases are allowed to proceed. The Supreme Court, where several justices have written about complex issues of privacy in the digital age, could be the ultimate stop for such lawsuits. -
This June 12, 2013 photo provided by the Office of George H. W. Bush, shows former president Bush at the family's compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Bush has continued his love for colorful, outlandish footwear by donning Superman socks to celebrate his 89th birthday. -
FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, former President George H.W. Bush, wears pink socks as he is seated in a wheelchair at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A socks celebration has been planned in Texas for the 89th birthday of former President George H.W. Bush. Visitors to Bush's presidential library in College Station are urged to wear "exuberant socks" Wednesday on his birthday. In recent years Bush has taken to wearing colorful socks in public. -
A man sits next to the main entrance of the Greek state television ERT headquarters as other stand during a rainfall in Athens, on Wednesday, June 12, 2013. State TV and radio signals were cut early Wednesday, hours after the government closed the Hellenic Broadcasting Corp., ERT, and fired its 2,500 workers. Greece’s two largest labor unions called a 24-hour general strike for Thursday amid escalating protests against a decision to close state-run TV and radio that threw the country’s conservative-led government into political crisis nearly a year after taking office. -
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center, joined by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, and Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale, right, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget requests for defense spending. -
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Budget Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget requests for defense spending. -
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center, joined by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, and Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale, right, prepares testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget requests for defense spending. -
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, center, flanked by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, left, and Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, before Senate Budget Committee hearing on President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget requests for defense spending. -
President Barack Obama is greeted by Massachusetts Senate candidate, Rep. Ed Markey, right, accompanied by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, and Massachusetts Gov Deval Patrick, center, upon his arrival at Logan International Airport in Boston, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Obama traveled to Boston to campaign for Markey's Massachusetts Democratic Senate campaign. -
President Barack Obama departs Air Force One at Logan International Airport in Boston, Wednesday, June, 12, 2013, where he was scheduled to attend a fundraiser and rally for Senate candidate, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. -
President Barack Obama is greeted by, from left, Boston Mayor Tom Menino, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, and Senate candidate, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass, upon the president's arrivals on Air Force One at Logan International Airport in Boston, Wednesday, June, 12, 2013. Obama was scheduled to attend a fundraiser and rally for Senate candidate, Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass. -
FILE - In this June 11, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speak in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trailed by controversy, President Barack Obama is pressing ahead with efforts to boost Democrats Wednesday in Boston and Miami, raising questions about whether the second-term president will be more asset or liability to his party in the coming election season. -
Russ Martin of American Automobile Association (AAA), is hooked to an electroencephalographic (EEG)-configured skull cap, during a demonstrations in support of their new study on distracted driving in Landover, Md., Tuesday, June 11, 2013. -
Russ Martin of American Automobile Association (AAA), is seen on a monitor in a research vehicle skull cap to the research vehicle during a demonstrations in support of their new study on distracted driving in Landover, Md., Tuesday, June 11, 2013. -
Dr. Eric Strayer of University of Utah, speaks to reporters , during a demonstrations in support of their new study on distracted driving in Landover, Md., Tuesday, June 11, 2013. -
Russ Martin of American Automobile Association (AAA), is hooked to an electroencephalographic (EEG)-configured skull cap, during a demonstrations in support of their new study on distracted driving in Landover, Md., Tuesday, June 11, 2013. -
Russ Martin of triple A, is assisted by Joel Cooper, left, hooking the electroencephalographic (EEG)-configured skull cap to the research vehicle during a demonstrations in support of their new study on distracted driving in Landover, Md., Tuesday, June 11, 2013.
