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Former Pennsylvania environmental protection secretary John Hanger speaks during a gubernatorial candidates forum Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014 in Philadelphia. Five Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls support raising the minimum wage and imposing a tax on natural gas drillers, but they disagree on expanding gambling in Pennsylvania. Former Pennsylvania environmental protection secretary Katie McGinty and York businessman Tom Wolf seen on left and right. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Former Pennsylvania environmental protection secretary John Hanger, left, Lebanon County commissioner Jo Ellen Litz, former Pennsylvania environmental protection secretary Katie McGinty, U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz and York businessman Tom Wolf, right, participate in a gubernatorial candidates forum Tuesday Feb. 4, 2014 in Philadelphia. Five Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls support raising the minimum wage and imposing a tax on natural gas drillers, but they disagree on expanding gambling in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
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Carlyle Blakeney, the vice chairman of the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, left, and Medal of Honor recipient retired Marine Maj. Gen. James Livingston show a map of the location for a planned Medal of Honor Museum to South Carolina state lawmakers during a House subcommittee meeting in Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Organizers asked the state to provide $11 million for the $100 million museum to be built at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum in Mount Pleasant, S.C. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Rep. Norman "Doc" Hastings, R-Wash. discusses a new report that proposes alterations to the 40-year-old Endangered Species Act, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hastings led the Endangered Species Act Congressional Working Group, a panel of House Republicans who want the law to be administered by the states to balance wildlife protection with economic development. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rep. Norman "Doc" Hastings, R-Wash., center, discusses a new report that proposes alterations to the 40-year-old Endangered Species Act, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, during a news conference on Capitol in Washington. Hastings, along with Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., left, led the Endangered Species Act Congressional Working Group, a panel of House Republicans who want the law to be administered by the states to balance wildlife protection with economic development. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this undated photo released by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, a bald eagle files in Utah. Proponents credit the Endangered Species Act with staving off extinction for hundreds of species, from the bald eagle and American alligator to the gray whale, but Republicans in Congress say the 40-year-old law meant to protect animals and plants from extinction has become bogged down by litigation and needs to be updated. (AP Photo/Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Lynn Chamberlain)
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FILE - An Oregon State Fish biologist pulls a hand full of Oregon Chub from the waters of a pond near Dexter, Oregon as part of a research project in this April 2008 file photo. The tiny fish found only in Oregon has become the first fish in the country removed from Endangered Species Act protection because it no longer faces extinction. It was put on the endangered species list 21 years ago. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Chris Pietsch, File)
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This Jan. 16, 2014 photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows an Oregon chub at the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge near Corvallis, Ore. The tiny fish found only in Oregon has become the first fish in the country removed from Endangered Species Act protection because it no longer faces extinction. It was put on the endangered species list 21 years ago. (AP Photo/Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Rick Swart)
