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President Biden gave author Colson Whitehead a National Humanities Medal. Whitehead won a Pulitzer twice for his fiction, a rarity. "I'm kind of looking for back-to-back myself," Biden quipped. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Alan Shaw, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corp., testifies before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters following a policy meeting at the Capitol Tuesday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption

Gigi Sohn was first nominated by President Biden to serve on the Federal Communications Commission in October 2021. Pete Marovich/AP hide caption

President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speak to reporters as they depart the Senate Democrat policy luncheon at the Capitol on March 2. Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Ann "Farmer Gale" Sutton inspects crops at a farm on Jan. 26, 2023 in Upper Marlboro, Md. Prince Georges County has launched a pilot program geared towards assisting women and minority farmers build sustainable practices. Michael A. McCoy/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption

Lateef Dowdell watches the sunrise on Jan. 14, 2021, from what remains of land once belonging to his uncle Gil Alexander, who was the last active Black farmer in the community of Nicodemus, Kan. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption

Lucious Abrams, a plaintiff in the Pigford v. Glickman class action lawsuit, stands in front of a tractor on his Georgia farm. Lucious Abrams hide caption

President Biden walks across the South Lawn upon return to the White House on Thursday. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks during an event at the Heritage Foundation think tank on Oct. 19, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., speaks while delivering the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday in Little Rock, Ark. Al Drago/Bloomberg/Pool/AP hide caption

A teacher lines up the students for school-prepared lunches at Madison Crossing Elementary School in Canton, Miss. in 2019. The USDA unveiled new nutrition standards for school meals that would limit sugar and sodium. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks after taking the oath of the office on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark. Will Newton/AP hide caption

Deidra Bollinger of Lancaster County shaves Rozabel red and white dairy cow at the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., on Jan. 11. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks to the infant child of Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., inside the House chamber during votes for the next speaker of the House on the first day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters hide caption

Farm laborers working with an H-2A visa harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020, in Greenfield, Calif. Brent Stirton/Getty Images hide caption

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is pictured on Wednesday at the Capitol. The Senate voted on the $1.7 trillion spending package Thursday; the House followed on Friday. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption

President Biden and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hold a press conference in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption