Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV) during a news conference on a payroll tax cut compromise. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption
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Lt. Dan Choi, center, stands with other protesters after handcuffing themselves to the fence outside the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010, during a protest for gay-rights. The group demanded that President Obama keep his promise to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
Chief Justice John Roberts and new Justice Elena Kagan after her swearing-in on Aug. 7. Handout/Getty Images North America hide caption
A cluster of Bill Halter and Blanche Lincoln campaign signs are displayed at an intersection in Little Rock, Ark. Danny Johnston/AP hide caption
Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas must survive a runoff to be on her party's ballot in November. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption
In 2008, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid referenced then-presidential candidate Barack Obama as a "light-skinned" African-American "with no negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption