Politics

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Former Republican South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation, speaks at the Heritage Action for America 2014 Conservative Policy Summit in Washington on Feb. 10, 2014. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2013, file photo, Democrat Mary Burke talks during a news conference in Madison, Wis. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate accused Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, of being too quick to spend a projected state surplus, expressing concern that the money would not actually materialize. Burke served as Doyle's Commerce Department secretary for two years. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King, File)

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 file photo, 16-year veteran skycap Fred Harris prepares multiple baggage tags for a traveler at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. About 50 elected officials have signed a letter to the Port of Seattle urging the government agency that runs the airport to embrace a citizen-approved initiative to raise the minimum wage for SeaTac employees to $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Gov. Matt Mead delivers his state of the state address Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, at the state Capitol in Cheyenne, Wyo. He told lawmakers that the state is in good fiscal condition and called on lawmakers to support state employee pay raises and local government funding. (AP Photo/Bob Moen)

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New Jersey Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski, center, D-Sayreville, N.J., co-chair of a joint bipartisan committee of members of the New Jersey Senate and Assembly, talks with Republican Assembly Leader, Jon M. Bramnick, second left, R-Westfield, N.J., and Sen. Kevin J. O'Toole, R-Wayne, N.J., second from right, and others before a meeting at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. More subpoenas are expected to be issued by a New Jersey legislative committee investigating a plot to create gridlock by blocking lanes near the George Washington Bridge. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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Julie Graves, left, of Albany, Calif., and Chris Adams, second from left, of Berkeley, Calif., hold up signs in support of a beach access bill that Democratic state Sen. Jerry Hill introduced near Martin's Beach Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. A bill seeking to re-establish public access to a popular Northern California beach that was closed off after a Silicon Valley billionaire bought the adjacent land was introduced on Monday. Hill said his bill would require the State Lands Commission to negotiate with Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Vinod Khosla to purchase some or all of his land at Martin's Beach. Adams and Graves are part of families that have gone to the beach for picnics for over 40 years. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Democratic state Sen. Jerry Hill of San Mateo, shakes hands with a supporter after speaking about a beach access bill he introduced near Martin's Beach Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, in Half Moon Bay, Calif. A bill seeking to re-establish public access to a popular Northern California beach that was closed off after a Silicon Valley billionaire bought the adjacent land was introduced on Monday. Hill said his bill would require the State Lands Commission to negotiate with Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Vinod Khosla to purchase some or all of his land at Martin's Beach. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)