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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2014, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prior to the Syrian peace talks in Montreux, Switzerland. The peace talks in the Swiss city of Montreux marked the first time the opposition and the Syrian government will sit down face to face since their dispute began in March 2011. Kerry has spent nearly half of his first year as secretary of state jumping on and off airplanes and diving headlong into some of the world’s most difficult problems. (AP Photo/Arnd Wiegmann, pool)

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FILE - int his Jan. 13, 2014, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, gives a pair of Idaho potatoes as a gift for Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the start of their meeting at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Paris, France, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. Kerry is in Paris on a two-day meeting on Syria to rally international support for ending the three-year civil war in Syria. For some watchers of international diplomacy, the somber road to Syrian peace was overrun Monday by potatoes and furry pink hats. Kerry has spent nearly half of his first year as secretary of state jumping on and off airplanes and diving headlong into some of the world’s most difficult problems. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

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FILE - In this June 25, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry climbs the stairs to his plane as he leaves Jeddah, Saudi Arabia , headed to Kuwait, returning to his Middle East tour where he is expected to have meetings about Syria and Israeli Palestinian relations. Kerry has spent nearly half of his first year as secretary of state jumping on and off airplanes and diving headlong into some of the world’s most difficult problems. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2013, file photo, Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, prepare to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on Syria. Kerry has spent nearly half of his first year as secretary of state jumping on and off airplanes and diving headlong into some of the world’s most difficult problems.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaking to the media at the British Foreign Office in London. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, Pool)

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry, center, is congratulated by Vice President Joe Biden, right, during the ceremonial swearing-in as the 68th secretary of state at the State Department in Washington,. Witnessing the ceremony are Kerry’s daughters Vanessa Kerry, obscured, and Alexandra Kerry, back center, and stepson Christopher Heinz, back right. Kerry has spent nearly half of his first year as secretary of state jumping on and off airplanes and diving headlong into some of the world’s most difficult problems. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, after a weekly policy luncheon. From left are, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.; McConnell, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, followed by Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kansas, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., arrives to speak to reporters about the Keystone XL Pipeline and other issues, following a Republican Conference meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Alabama State Rep. Patricia Todd, Birmingham Democrat, awaits her turn to speak during a rally concerning predatory lending legislation in 2014 in Montgomery, Ala. (AP PHOTO/AL.com, Julie Bennett)

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Rick Weiland, the Democratic candidate for one of South Dakota's two U.S. Senate seats, talks about the Medicare Choice Act he plans to introduce if elected, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, in Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)

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Councilman Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) has proposed marijuana decriminalization bill to be debated at a Committee of the Whole Meeting at the Wilson Building, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 4, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Councilmembers David Catania (D-At Large), left, and David Grosso (D-At Large), right, speak to each other over breakfast before a Committee of the Whole Meeting at the Wilson Building, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, February 4, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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