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After nearly two decades as the first woman to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, walks to the floor of the Senate to give her farewell speech, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012. In the chamber, Sen. Hutchison became emotional as she recalled her "Homaker's IRA" legislation which gave homemakers - men and women - the same rights to establish an Individual Retirement Account, or IRA, as their working spouses. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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** FILE ** Then-Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas Republican, speaks about financial reform on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Ted Cruz thanks his wife, Heidi, in front of a cheering crowd after he defeated Republican rival, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, in a runoff election Tuesday for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the retiring Kay Bailey Hutchison. (Houston Chronicle/Johnny Hanson via Associated Press)

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From left: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican; Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas Republican; former astronaut Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat; and astronauts John Glenn and Buzz Aldrin stand under a statue of Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 16, 2011, during the invocation of a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony at the Capitol building in Washington. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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STEPPING DOWN: Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas Republican, on Thursday announced plans to retire. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas Republican