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FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks in Washington. Senate sniping between establishment Republicans and tea partyers resumed Thursday Cruz refused to endorse his fellow GOP Texan in next week's primary. Sen. John Cornyn, the Senate's second-ranking Republican leader, faces tea party-backed Rep. Steve Stockman in Tuesday's primary. Cruz declined to tell reporters how he plans to vote. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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In this Dec. 23, 2013 photograph, Amite County Chancery Clerk Ronnie Taylor talks about the large number of leasing agents that have flocked to the county's antebellum courthouse in Liberty, Miss. The agents review a variety of records to determine land and mineral rights to property that might be on or along the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale formation that may hold billions of barrels of oil. Oil companies plan a big increase in drilling activity in 2014 in southwest Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
