WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 08: (L-R) Kathy Miller, board member of the Vermont Grocers' Association; David Evans, lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; Mark Caverly of the Credit Union National Association and the Electronic Payments Coalition; Ed Mierzwinski, senior fellow in the U.S. PIRG Consumer Program; Ann Duplessis of Independent Community Bankers of America; Mallory Duncan of Merchants Payments Coalition, testify during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009 and the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 08: (L-R) Kathy Miller, board member of the Vermont Grocers' Association; David Evans, lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; Mark Caverly of the Credit Union National Association and the Electronic Payments Coalition; Ed Mierzwinski, senior fellow in the U.S. PIRG Consumer Program; Ann Duplessis of Independent Community Bankers of America; Mallory Duncan of Merchants Payments Coalition, testify during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009 and the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act.

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  1. Adam Green, Associate Professor of American History at the University of Chicago, speaks about "The Obama Era" at the Newseum in Washington, October 2, 2009. The speech was part of the First Draft of History event, held by the Atlantic Magazine and the Aspen Institute to bring together newsmakers, historians and journalists.
  2. University of Chicago Professor Paul Sereno (L) and McGill University Associate Professor Hans Larsson excavate the fossil skull of a 100-million-year-old croc in Niger in this undated National Geographic photograph released to Reuters on November 19, 2009. The animal, which they nicknamed BoarCroc, was one of several crocs that inhabited a lost world now buried in the sands of the Sahara.
  3. A flesh model of the head of BoarCroc (above) and its actual fossil skull discovered in the Sahara by a team led by paleontologist Paul Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago, are seen in this combo photograph by National Geographic made available to Reuters on November 19, 2009. BoarCroc was a 20-foot-long meat eater with three sets of dagger-shaped fangs.
  4. Dr. Greg Zagaja, left, performs a robotic prostatectomy on a patient at University of Chicago Medical Center using a da Vinci Si robotics system, center, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 in Chicago. A study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association suggests the less-invasive keyhole surgery for prostate cancer may mean a higher risk for lasting incontinence and impotence when compared with traditional surgery.
  5. Dr. Greg Zagaja performs a robotic prostatectomy on a patient at University of Chicago Medical Center using a da Vinci Si robotics system, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 in Chicago. A study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association suggests the less-invasive keyhole surgery for prostate cancer may mean a higher risk for lasting incontinence and impotence when compared with traditional surgery.
  6. Dr. Greg Zagaja, center, prepares to perform a robotic prostatectomy on a patient at University of Chicago Medical Center using a da Vinci Si robotics system, left, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 in Chicago. A study, appearing in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association suggests the less-invasive keyhole surgery for prostate cancer may mean a higher risk for lasting incontinence and impotence when compared with traditional surgery.
  7. Guitarist David Evans, also known as The Edge, of the rock band U2 performs during a concert at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California October 25, 2009.
  8. Guitarist David Evans, also known as The Edge, of the rock band U2 performs during a concert at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California October 25, 2009.
  9. Guitarist David Evans, also known as The Edge, of the rock band U2 performs during a concert at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California October 25, 2009.
  10. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 08: (L-R) Kathy Miller, board member of the Vermont Grocers' Association; David Evans, lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; Mark Caverly of the Credit Union National Association and the Electronic Payments Coalition; and Ed Mierzwinski, senior fellow in the U.S. PIRG Consumer Program, testify during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009 and the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act.
  11. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 08: (L-R) Kathy Miller, board member of the Vermont Grocers' Association; David Evans, lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; and Mark Caverly of the Credit Union National Association and the Electronic Payments Coalition, testify during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009 and the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act.
  12. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 08: (L-R) Kathy Miller, board member of the Vermont Grocers' Association; David Evans, lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; Mark Caverly of the Credit Union National Association and the Electronic Payments Coalition; Ed Mierzwinski, senior fellow in the U.S. PIRG Consumer Program; Ann Duplessis of Independent Community Bankers of America; Mallory Duncan of Merchants Payments Coalition, testify during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009 and the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act.
  13. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 29: Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) listens during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee called U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner, Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and others before it to testify about plans for regulatory reform.
  14. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 29: Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) (C) speaks during a hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill October 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. The committee called U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner, Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and others before it to testify about plans for regulatory reform.
  15. House Financial Services Committee members, from left, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del., Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., back to camera, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. and the Committee's Ranking Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, during the committee's markup on the financial overhaul bill.
  16. House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., listens to a vote during the committee's markup on the financial overhaul bill, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., presides at left.

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