Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, center, flanked by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 7, 2011.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, center, flanked by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 7, 2011.