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**FILE** Eleanor Holmes Norton (right), a non-voting delegate for the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives, and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Mark Sanford is headed back to Washington for this second turn in the House of Representatives, this time with fiancee Maria Belen Chapur at his side. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, walks on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, to the chamber at the Capitol in Washington for the final vote as the House of Representatives passed a $50.7 billion emergency aid bill for states hit by Superstorm Sandy. (Associated Press)

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Members of the 113th Congress, many accompanied by family members, take the oath of office in the House of Representatives chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio walks in House of Representatives chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, as the 113th Congress began. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Anne Easby-Smith, left, and Trace Robbins, right, who work for House Speaker John Boehner, help to prepare the Rayburn Room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, where members of the House of Representatives will pose for pictures at an oath-of-office ceremony with Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Joe Kennedy III, candidate for the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Indiana State Police stand guard at the entrance of the House of Representatives in Indianapolis during a debate Wednesday on a bill that would make Indiana the nation's 23rd state with a right-to-work law. Democrats fought the measure, which would ban unions from collecting mandatory dues from workers. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, will run for a third term in the House of Representatives rather than challenge Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, who has held the seat for 36 years. Mr. Chaffetz enjoyed significant backing from the tea party. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (center), Arizona Democrat, appears on the floor of the House of Representatives on Monday. Ms. Giffords was on the floor for the first time since her shooting earlier this year, attending a vote on the debt-standoff compromise. (Associated Press)

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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, at center in red, is surrounded after she addressed a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress in the House of Representatives at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Congressmen walk down the steps of the House of Representatives as they work throughout the night on a spending bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio delivers the oath of office to Republican members of the House of Representatives during the first session of the 112th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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The gavel and sound block for House Speaker-designate John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, is carried through Statuary Hall to the floor of the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)