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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown's budget proposal includes a compromise to raise more revenue from expanded bar and restaurant hours.

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D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown (left) confers with fellow council members Tommy Wells (center) and Jack Evans. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council members Phil Mendelson (left) and Michael A. Brown (center) listen to American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Executive Director Geo T. Johnson's pitch for compensation for furlough days for city employees. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Council chamber employee Juan Gray collects small toy homes which read, "Kids Need Homes," which were placed in front of the D.C. Council by protesters who disrupt a public budget hearing at the Wilson Building to bring attention to homelessness in the District, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 30, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Judge Mary Terrell, interim president and CEO of the Children & Youth Investment Trust Corp., answers questions during Monday's D.C. Council hearing on the organization that former council member Harry Thomas Jr. embezzled from. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council member Jim Graham expects a "very long list" of stakeholders to testify in favor of the trust's mission and programs at his budget session Monday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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DC Council Chairman Kwame Brown at Sharpshooter range.

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D.C. Council member Vincent B. Orange shakes hands with a supporter outside his campaign headquarters on South Dakota Avenue in Northeast D.C., on Friday, March 30, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)