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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray walk past the Senate chamber on their way to a press conference to announce a bipartisan budget deal, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, at the US Capitol on December 10, 2013 in Washington, DC. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images/AFP)
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File photo—US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks during a briefing on the Defense Department’s FY2014 budget at the Pentagon in Washington in this file photo taken April 10, 2013. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
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