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SPECTER SPEAKS OUT ON FILIBUSTER COMPROMISE
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, speaks with members of the press at a news conference regarding judicial nominations and the need for up and down votes on the Senate floor, on May 24, 2005 in Washington. Fourteen Republicans and Democrats came together and reached a compromise the night before on the controversial vote to end the use of the filibuster in the Senate. Rep. Dan Lungren, left, and Roger Pilon, right, listen in...(UPI Photo/Michael Kleinfeld)..

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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad