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Illustration on the impact of tax reduction on markets by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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FILE - In this July 27, 2015, file photo, cars from one of two mile-long oil trains parked near the King County Airport are seen in Seattle. More crude oil than ever is expected to move through Washington state, particularly since the Canadian government approved the Kinder Morgan pipeline project that will triple the number of tankers and barges plying local waters. Washington already has some of the toughest oil spill prevention and preparedness rules in the country but lawmakers say there are big gaps and that the rules need to be strengthened to keep up with the changing landscape. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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A Maryland bill, approved by the state Senate on a 28-17 vote, would require presidential and vice presidential candidates to release the preceding five years of their tax returns to appear on the ballot. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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A woman holds a banner reading " Make love not walls" during a gathering to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's recent travel ban to the U.S. at Trocadero Plaza next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017. People gathered to protest Trump's executive order temporarily banning immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. and suspending the nation's refugee program. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

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Bridal Fashion Week in New York reveals the latest trends for brides and their wedding parties. (AP Photo/Richard Drew

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FILE – In this Jan. 30, 2017, file photo, Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley, front right, speaks during a demonstration against President Donald Trump's executive order suspending the country's refugee program and temporarily blocking visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries, as the mayor stands outside City Hall in Cincinnati. Trump's early actions in the two weeks since his Jan. 20, 2017, inauguration are keeping Ohioans stirred up, spurring demonstrations and debate much like his campaign did in the swing state. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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FOR RELEASE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2017, AT 12:01 A.M. MST. - OATS Family Center founder Sally Hall folds a quilt in the sewing room Jan. 18, 2017. Clients at the drug-treatment center make quilts as community service for people in need or for hospitals. The center leases space at the Burley-Heyburn Industrial Park, the old Simplot plant site. (Laurie Welch/The Times-News via AP)

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Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman listens at left as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Michael Rondeau, CEO of the Cow Creek tribe, left, and Tim Vredenburg Director of Forest Management for the tribe pose for a photograph in Roseburg, Ore. on Friday Jan. 27, 2017. The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians teamed up with Lone Rock Timber Management Company to create the sole proposal to buy 82,500 acres of the Elliott State Forest from the state of Oregon. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)

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Lone Rock land management crew member Alferdo Martinez plants two-year-old Douglas fir seedlings in a section of the Callahan Mountains west of Roseburg, Ore. on Friday Jan. 27. 2017. The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians teamed up with Lone Rock Timber Management Company to create the sole proposal to buy 82,500 acres of the Elliott State Forest from the state of Oregon. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)

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Lone Rock land management crew member Cristobal Carrion plants two-year-old Douglas fir seedlings in a section of the Callahan Mountains west of Roseburg, Ore. on Friday Jan. 27, 2017. The Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians teamed up with Lone Rock Timber Management Company to create the sole proposal to buy 82,500 acres of the Elliott State Forest from the state of Oregon. (Michael Sullivan/The News-Review via AP)

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In this Jan. 10, 2017 photo, Robert Frye poses with his wife Loretta at Long's Meat Market, in Eugene, Ore. Robert Frye, who has worked at the market for more than three decades recently bought the popular south Eugene meat shop with his wife. The Fryes are only the fourth owners of the business that has been operating in Eugene since 1927. (Andy Nelson /The Register-Guard via AP)

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Milwaukee Bucks forward Jabari Parker, right, drives to the net past Denver Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler in the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Denver. The Nuggets won 121-117. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One while traveling to Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Trump is spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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In this Jan. 13, 2017 photo, store signs for payday loan companies sit along a busy street in Albuquerque, N.M. Two state lawmakers are taking aim at the payday loan industry in New Mexico once again, seeking to limit exorbitant interest rates often charged by lenders. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)

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Traffic passes the storefront of Tio Rico Loan Center in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Two New Mexico lawmakers have introduced legislation again targeting the payday and title loan industry, seeking to cap interest rates at 36 percent. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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A truck heads east along historic Route 66, past one of the roughly 700 small lenders operating in New Mexico, in Albuquerque, N.M., on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017. Two New Mexico lawmakers have introduced legislation once again targeting the payday and title loan industry, seeking to cap interest rates at 36 percent. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2011 file photo, Cheryl LaFleur of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) speaks in Omaha, Neb. Major natural gas pipeline projects along the East Coast and Midwest face uncertainty as the federal agency that oversees the work loses a commissioner and will be unable to decide on projects for the first months of the Trump administration. President Donald Trump named LaFleur to lead the panel last week. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

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President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after his signing the order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 3, 2017. The executive order that will direct the Treasury secretary to review the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial oversight law, which reshaped financial regulation after 2008-2009 crisis. (Associated Press) **FILE**