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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), left, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), right, look on as Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, center, sits between House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), right, during a ceremony to award Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, second from left, sits between House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), right, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, speaks during a ceremony to award Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, left, stands next to Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) during a ceremony to award Suu Kyi the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) is awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 19, 2012, as House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, look on. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks Sept. 18, 2012, at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) greets Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Myanmar opposition Leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) arrives Sept. 16 2012, at Yangon International Airport in Yangon to leave for the United States — her first U.S. trip since she was put under house arrest in 1990. (Associated Press)

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Customers look over local weekly journals at a shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, the day the government abolished direct censorship of the media. The move allows some freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation, but it does not leave reporters and editors free from reprisals. (Associated Press)

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Customers buy local weekly journals at a roadside shop in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner (third from right) talks with Myanmar Minister of Finance Hla Tun (right) and government officials from Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore during a meeting with Association of Southeast Asian nations finance ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu in November 2011. Myanmar appeals to U.S. commercial ventures. (Associated Press)

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) poses for photographers after she accepted an honorary doctorate from England's University of Oxford on Wednesday, June 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)