WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (L) listens to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) deliver brief remarks before signing the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (C) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leave after an enrollment ceremony for the the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act in Pelosi's office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar holds up a pocket-sized list of accomplishments during an enrollment ceremony for the the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) (C) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivers brief remarkd before signing the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivers brief remarkd before signing the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (R) hands one of the pens she used to sign the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act to Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN) during an enrollment ceremony with Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listens to reporters' questions after signing the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listens to reporters' questions after signing the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) smiles after signing the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 17: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signs the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act during an enrollment ceremony in her office at the U.S. Capitol March 17, 2010 in Washington, DC. The bill now travels down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House where President Barack Obama is expected to sign it.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: Workers watch elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus pass by the US Department of Labor building as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: People watch elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus to parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: People watch elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: The Washington Monument is seen as elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus stop for a photo op near the US Capitol on the National Mall as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: The Rushmores - mascots for the Washington Nationals MLB baseball team in the guise of former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt - get in on the act as elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus stop near the U.S. Capitol for a photo op as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: A woman watches from a window of the Government Accountability Office as elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: Elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus pass a highway sign as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: Performer Mariya Klose - a 'lovely' in circus parlance - rides atop one of the elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus near the U.S. Capitol as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: People watch elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus as they parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: A U.S. Capitol Police officer stands watch at an intersection as elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnem & Bailey Circus parade through town to announce the circus's arrival for performances on March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. The circus' Zing Zang Zoom Red Tour will be at the Verizon Center from March 18 to March 21.
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