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White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe, center, talks with Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , right, and committee member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. , as President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan,...

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Senate Armed Services Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. rushes to the Senate floor on Capitol Hill,in Washington, Tuesday, April 24, 2012, for a series of votes.

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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 20: U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), center, talks with members of the press as Senate Democrats head to a weekly policy meeting at the Capitol on March 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. The stage is being set for a fresh budget battle after the House GOP's plan was...

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L-R: Sen. Joe Lieberman,I-CT, Sen Carl Levin, D-MI, and Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, question witnesses during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee March 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee listened to testimony by US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and...

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US Sen. Joe Lieberman(R),I-CT, and Sen. Carl Levin(R),D-MI, greet Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta(2n-L) and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey before hearings of the Senate Armed Services Committee March 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee...

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US Sen. Carl Levin,D-MI, and Sen. John McCain(R),R-AZ, question witnesses Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey during Senate Armed Services Committee hearings March 7, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee is...

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, center, followed by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , left, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, march 7, 2012, to testify before the committee's hearing on the...

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US Sen. Carl Levin, D-MI, delivers remarks on March 6, 2012 at the American Israel Political Action Committee AIPAC during its 2012 Policy Conference In Wahington, DC.

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 14: Chairman U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (L-MI) (L) and U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (R) hear testimony from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, February 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. The committee is hearing...

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , center, speaks with Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, I-Conn. , left, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, prior to start of the committee's hearing on the Pentagon's budget. At right is the committee's...

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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: Sen. Tom Coburn (L) (R-OK) and Sen. Carl Levin (R) (D-MI) confer before a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee January 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony on the topic of 'Taxation of Mutual Fund...

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 21: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) addresses the Council on Foreign Relations October 21, 2011 in Washington, DC. Levin spoke about the challenges facing U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan and said that the Pakistan-based Haqqani...

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 18: U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) (L) questions U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (2nd L) while Chairman U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (2nd R) and U.S.Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) talk during a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee hearing...

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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , right, walks with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. , left, as they arrive at the Capitol for the vote on President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs bill, which is expected to fail in the Democrat-controlled Senate at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011.

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 11: Senate Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI), holds up a paper while talking about some U.S. companies recieving large tax breaks, during a news conference on Capitol Hill, On October 11, 2011 in Washington, DC. Sen. Levin released a Government Affairs...

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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , talks to reporters after the Senate vote on a short term funding bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, Sept. 26 2011.

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WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 22: (L-R) U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen greet committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) before a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee September 22, 2011 in Washington, DC. Panetta...

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. , the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, right, joined by committee chairman, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , questions Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on the crisis in Syria, Wednesday, March 7, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. , the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, center, flanked by Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa. , left, and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , awaits the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday,...

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WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 16: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) (L) and ranking member Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) talk during a hearing about the current and future worldwide threats to the security of the United States on Capitol Hill February 16, 2012 in...

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, joined by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, to testify before the committee's hearing on the Pentagon's budget plan.

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U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (L)(D-MI) and Ranking Republican John McCain (R-AZ) confer during the confirmation hearing of U.S. Army General Martin Dempsey for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 26, 2011. The nominee...

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WASHINGTON - JULY 26: U.S. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey (2nd R) and his wife Deanie (R) listen to committee chairman U.S. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) (L) prior to his confirmation hearing before Senate Armed Services Committee July 26, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Dempsey will become...

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , left, huddles with the committee's ranking Republican, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 26, 2011, during the committee's hearing on the nomination of Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, President...

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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. , and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. , smile as they talk to the media about the upcoming vote to confirm Leon Panetta as Secretary of Defense, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, June 14, 2011 in Washington.