Business_Finance

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Members of the state's Revenue Estimating Conference and the Legislature's financial advisers talk during a break of the conference's meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. From left to right are Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols; House Speaker Chuck Kleckley; Patrick Goldsmith, director of the House Fiscal Division; Senate President John Alario; Sherry Phillips-Hymel, chief budget analyst for the Senate; and LSU economist Jim Richardson. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013 file photo shows Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., flanked by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Policy trades big and small make up the $1.1 trillion spending deal that Republican and Democratic leaders are rushing through Congress this week to avoid a repeat of October’s partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, after the final vote on a massive $1.1 trillion spending bill. The measure sailed through the House with no suspense and little dissent — fueled additionally by lawmakers' desire to avoid an election-year replay of last fall's widely unpopular 16-day federal shutdown. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama announces he will nominate Maria Contreras-Sweet, founder and board chairman of a Latino-owned community bank in Los Angeles, to head the Small Business Administration (SBA), Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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This artist rendering provided by Comcast Corp. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, shows the lower atrium of their planned new skyscraper. The Philadelphia-based company said it plans to build a $1.2 billion, 59-story technology center that will rise 1,121 feet next to the existing Comcast Center, which stands 975 feet tall and opened in June 2008. (AP Photo/Comcast Corp.)

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This artist rendering provided by Comcast Corp. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, shows their planned new skyscraper. The Philadelphia-based company said it plans to build a $1.2 billion, 59-story technology center that will rise 1,121 feet next to the existing Comcast Center, which stands 975 feet tall and opened in June 2008. (AP Photo/Comcast Corp.)

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This artist rendering provided by Comcast Corp. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, shows their planned new skyscraper. The Philadelphia-based company said it plans to build a $1.2 billion, 59-story technology center that will rise 1,121 feet next to the existing Comcast Center, which stands 975 feet tall and opened in June 2008. (AP Photo/Comcast Corp.)