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Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) speaks at a Falun Gong rally calling for the end of the Chinese Communist Party's alleged tyranny and seven year persecution of the Falun Gong, on the West Front Lawn of the Capitol, in Washington on July 20, 2006. (UPI Photo/Shauneil Scott)
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