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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2014 file photo, Larry Pressler, who served three terms as a Republican U.S. senator for South Dakota from 1979 to 1997, is seen in Sioux Falls, S.D. As "American Hustle" vies for a best picture Oscar Sunday night, Pressler will pop into the Academy Awards broadcast to remind South Dakotans that he was the lone congressman to turn down a bribe in the real-life 1970s Abscam scandal. The 71-year-old Pressler has bought two 30-second local spots to debut his ad during the awards show broadcast. Pressler is hoping to win back his old seat as an independent. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers, File)
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Republican candidate for governor,is introduced to a crowd gathered at a local restaurant Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)
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File - In the Feb. 12, 2014 file photo, Victor Holmes, left, and partner Mark Phariss, right, arrive at the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in San Antonio, where a federal judge is expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Texas' ban on same-sex marriage. Republican attorneys general across the U.S. are fighting court rebukes of same-sex marriage bans in their states. But Texas' Greg Abbott is doing so against extraordinary personal ties: Phariss, one of the gay men challenging the law here is an old friend. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
