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President Barack Obama listens during his meeting with Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Obama welcomed Ukraine's new prime minister as the U.S. seeks to highlight ties with the former Soviet republic now caught in a diplomatic battle between East and West.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2013 file photo, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Outgoing Rep. Dingell will have surgery in Detroit to correct an abnormal heart rhythm. A statement released by Dingell's office says the 87-year-old Dearborn Democrat will undergo a minimally invasive procedure Thursday at Henry Ford Hospital. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights speaks during a press conference about his annual report to the Human Rights Council on the use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, in extraterritorial lethal counter-terrorism operations, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.. The expert will also refer to his reports on his 2013 missions to Burkina Faso and Chile. (AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)
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Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights speaks during a press conference about his annual report to the Human Rights Council on the use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, in extraterritorial lethal counter-terrorism operations, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.. The expert will also refer to his reports on his 2013 missions to Burkina Faso and Chile. (AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)
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Ben Emmerson, UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights speaks during a press conference about his annual report to the Human Rights Council on the use of remotely piloted aircraft, or drones, in extraterritorial lethal counter-terrorism operations, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.. The expert will also refer to his reports on his 2013 missions to Burkina Faso and Chile. (AP Photo/Keystone,Martial Trezzini)
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Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Commander, International Security Assistance Force, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama has threatened to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan if a new security agreement is not signed by the end of the year, but there is no legal reason the U.S. has to resort to the "zero option," as administration officials have repeatedly claimed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., Commander, International Security Assistance Force, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, during a Senate Armed Services Committee on the situation in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama has threatened to withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan if a new security agreement is not signed by the end of the year, but there is no legal reason the U.S. has to resort to the "zero option," as administration officials have repeatedly claimed. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Emergency responders take Utah Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund, R-Monroe, out of the Capitol on a stretcher in Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The Monroe Republican and other GOP senators were in a closed caucus meeting when Okerlund collapsed while talking, Rep. Steve Handy of Layton told the Deseret News. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Laura Seitz)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, women listen to a statement given earlier in the day by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich from Rostov-on-Don, Russia in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. The pro-Moscow president fled office last month after prolonged street protests and bloodshed in Kiev, and was succeeded by a government made up of politicians friendlier to the United States and European Union. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 11, 2014, pro Russian activists, one of them holding a Ukrainian flag, stand around a camp they set up in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine. In Ukraine’s coal-fired industrial east, a potent mix of economic depression, ethnic solidarity and nostalgia for the certainties of the Soviet past among those old enough to remember them have many people demanding the right to become part of Russia as well. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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FILE - In this June 10, 2013, file photo, Cathi Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) speaks during an Arizona state House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations hearing at the Arizona Capitol, in Phoenix. A bill in the Arizona Legislature to allow surprise inspections of abortion clinics has been described by supporters as a vital tool for health inspectors, who now must get a warrant to make unannounced searches of abortion providers. Herrod says it is needed to protect women from rogue doctors like Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia physician found guilty last year of murder in the deaths of three babies prosecutors said were delivered alive and killed. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
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In this Jan. 27, 2014 photo, Utah Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund, R-Monroe, makes remarks during the Senate leadership news conference, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Okerlund has been rushed to the hospital after collapsing at the Capitol, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Utah Senate President Wayne Niederhauser said Okerlund sustained a "medical event" earlier in the afternoon. He didn't elaborate on exactly what happened. Okerlund and other Republican senators were in a closed caucus meeting when he collapsed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this Jan. 27, 2014 photo, Utah Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund, R-Monroe, makes remarks during the Senate leadership news conference, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Okerlund has been rushed to the hospital after collapsing at the Capitol, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. Utah Senate President Wayne Niederhauser said Okerlund sustained a "medical event" earlier in the afternoon. He didn't elaborate on exactly what happened. Okerlund and other Republican senators were in a closed caucus meeting when he collapsed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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A Nato AWACS plane takes off the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. AWACS planes flying out of Geilenkirchen to patrol over Romania and Poland. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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A Nato AWACS plane takes off the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. AWACS planes flying out of Geilenkirchen to patrol over Romania and Poland. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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A Nato AWACS plane takes off the NATO Airbase in Geilenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. AWACS planes flying out of Geilenkirchen to patrol over Romania and Poland. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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People talk in Independence Square, Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March, 12, 2014. President Barack Obama is hosting the new Ukrainian prime minister at the White House, a gesture aimed at rebuking Russia and cementing the West's allegiance to Ukraine's fledgling government. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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Pro Russia activists gather signatures for a referendum on secession for the Donetsk region at a central square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, March 12, 2014. The Group of 7 world leaders said in a statement released from the White House on Wednesday that they won't recognize results of a referendum for the Crimea region to split from Ukraine and join Russia. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
