Anthony Weiner

Anthony Weiner announces his resignation from Congress during a news conference in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 16, 2011. Weiner resigned after a scandal spawned by lewd photos of himself that the New York lawmaker sent online to numerous women.

Anthony Weiner speaks to the media during a news conference in New York, June 16, 2011. Weiner resigned from Congress, saying he cannot continue in office amid the intense controversy surrounding sexually explicit messages he sent online to several women.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., follows his wife, Huma Abedin, into their home in Queens, N.Y., on Thursday, June 16, 2011. Weiner has decided to resign his seat in Congress after a two-week scandal spawned by lewd and even x-rated photos the New York lawmaker took of himself and sent online to numerous women.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., carries his laundry to a laundromat near his home in the Queens borough of New York, Saturday, June 11, 2011.

An unidentified woman tells Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y. she supports him, as he enters a bank near his home in the Queens borough of New York, June 11, 2011. The 46-year-old congressman acknowledged the day before that he had online contact with a 17-year-old girl from Delaware but said there was nothing inappropriate.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., closes the front door of his building on reporters as he arrives at his house in the Queens borough of New York, June 9, 2011.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., is surrounded by reporters as he arrives at his house in the Queens borough of New York, June 9, 2011. Weiner admitted four days earlier that he had tweeted sexually charged messages and photos to at least six women and lied about it.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., admits to sending a lewd Twitter photo of himself to a woman and then lying about it during a press conference on June 6, 2011, in New York. Weiner said he had not met any of the women in person but had numerous sexual relationships online while married.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., reacts during a news conference in New York, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up Weiner confessed that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married.

Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-NY, wipes his eye during a news conference in New York, June 6, 2011. After days of denials, a choked-up Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., encounters a group of reporters as he leaves his office in the Rayburn House Office Building before heading to a series of votes at the U.S. Capitol on June 2, 2011, in Washington, after declining to comment further on the recent incident involving his Twitter account and a photograph that was sent from that account.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., steps onto an elevator after leaving his office in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill, June 2, 2011, in Washington.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., attends a House markup on Capitol Hill, June 2, 2011, in Washington.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., speaks to the media regarding a lewd photo tweet on May 31, 2011, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A close-up photo of underwear of a man was tweeted from Weiner's Twitter account addressed to a college student in Seattle. The photo was deleted soon after and Weiner claimed his account was hacked.

Actor Ben Affleck, left, talks with Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., while Affleck waits to testify before the House Foreign Affairs, Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights Subcommittee hearing on the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Securing Peace in the Midst of Tragedy, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 8, 2011.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., testifies before the House Rules Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 6, 2011.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, are pictured after a ceremonial swearing-in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 5, 2011.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, are pictured after a ceremonial swearing in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington in this photo taken Jan. 5, 2011.

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Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., speaks at "Tea Party," a panel discussion at the 2010 New Yorker Festival at DGA Theater, on Oct. 2, 2010, in New York.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., speaks at a press conference in front of the United Nations addressing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the city on May 3, 2010, in New York.

House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., listens to testimony during a hearing on legal issues relating to football head injuries on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 28, 2009.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., speaks as Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., listen during a mark up hearing on the health care bill before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill on July 30, 2009, in Washington.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., poses with his wife, Huma Abedin, for a formal wedding portrait at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y., July 10, 2010.

Weiner, 45 and Jewish, and Abedin, 34 and Muslim, married on July 10, 2010 at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y., at a ceremony officiated by former President Bill Clinton.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., poses with his wife, Huma Abedin, a close aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, for a formal wedding portrait at the Oheka Castle in Huntington, N.Y., July 10, 2010. Clinton hosted an engagement party for the couple at her Washington home, where she told guests she considered Abedin her second daughter. Bill Clinton officiated at their wedding in the gardens of the Long Island castle.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., gives a press conference about the release on bail of disgraced investor Bernard Madoff on Dec. 18, 2008, outside Madoff's apartment building in New York City.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., questions former Environmental Protection Agency head Christine Whitman on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 25, 2007, during the House Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties subcommittee hearing on the federal environmental response at Ground Zero following the 9/11 attacks in New York.

Congressman Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., attends the 5th annual "Tikva Drive For Life" presented by Ecko Unltd. at Chelsea Piers on Aug. 14, 2007, in New York.

Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., speaks during the 8th annual Thanksgiving banquet hosted by New York City Rescue Mission on Nov. 20, 2006, in New York.