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WAX2000091205- 12 SEPTEMBER 2000 - WASHINGTON, D. C: Joan Claybrook, President of Public Citizen and Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director of the Center for Auto Safety testify September 12th before the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on the Firestone tire recall. rw/Xeriqua Garfinkel UPI

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden order take-out lunch at Taylor Gourmet on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C. on October 4, 2013. The reason he gave was they are starving and the establishment is giving a 10 percent discount to furloughed government workers as an indication of how ordinary Americans are looking out for one another. UPI/Pete Marovich/Pool