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Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe overpaid for what aides said was rental of email lists for his inauguration, according to people familiar with campaign financing tactics.
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Money trail: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe routed $211,000 from his inaugural fund to his election campaign and the state Democratic Party. (Associated Press)
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Democrat Andrew Romanoff has raised more than his Republican rival, three-term incumbent Rep. Mike Coffman, in Colorado. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf, right, talks with House Budget Committee member Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, prior to Elmendorf testifying before the committee's hearing on the CBO budget and economic outlook. New estimates that President Barack Obama’s health care law will encourage millions of Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who’ve claimed all along that the law will kill jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5, 2014, before the House Budget Committee hearing on the CBO budget and economic outlook. (Associated Press)
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Retiring Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a liberal force on health issues who helped write and enact the 2010 Affordable Care Act, defends President Barack Obama’s health care law during a TV news interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. New estimates that President Barack Obama’s health care law will encourage millions of Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who’ve claimed all along that the law will kill jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush talks with Jay Leno during an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in Burbank, Calif., Monday, March 6, 2000. (AP Photo/Eric Draper)
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Up next? Jay Leno has cracked nearly 44,000 jokes about politics and public affairs as host of the "Tonight" show, mainly at the expense of Democrats. Some speculate that the comic will put his own hand in politics. (NBC via Associated Press)
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MP Kirsten Sandberg, chairwoman of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the churchmen who concealed their crimes. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
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FILE - This Aug. 18, 1997 file photo provided by the Panola County Sheriff's office shows a booking photo of Bernie Tiede. Attorneys for Tiede, serving a life sentence for the death of a rich East Texas widow in 1997, are seeking a lighter sentence. The grounds are contained in documents unsealed Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at the Panola County Courthouse in Carthage, Texas. (AP Photo/Panola County Sheriff Office, File)
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Judge Gail Prudenti of the New York State Office of Court Administration testifies during a joint legislative budget hearing on public protection on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
