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FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 file photograph, Hoboken Mayor, Dawn Zimmer speaks to the media as she stands near the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J. Zimmer, mayor of a New Jersey city that sustained severe flooding from Hurricane Sandy claims the Christie administration withheld millions of dollars in recovery grants because she refused to sign off on a politically connected development. MSNBC first reported her comments Saturday. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)
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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2010 file photo, Republican candidate Joe Miller speaks with reporters in Juneau, Alaska. Miller, a Republican nominee in the 2010 U.S. Senate race who won with a write-in campaign by Sen. Lisa Murkowski recently commented on raising the minimum wage.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 19, 2013 file photo, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., left, walks with Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., on the way to a procedural vote on a comprehensive defense bill as the Senate’s legislative year nears to a close, at the Capitol in Washington. Coburn's announcement late last week that he will forego his final two years in office means Oklahoma will not only have two US Senate races this year, it is expected to trigger a series of dominoes on the GOP side as politicians on the Sooner State's deep Republican bench mull a run. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Former President George H.W. Bush is introduced during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game between Duke and North Carolina State at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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President Barack Obama signs the $1.1 trillion spending bill that funds the federal government through the end of September, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 at Jackson Place, a conference center near the White House. Obama signed the measure the day before federal funding was set to run out and was joined by aides who did much of the work negotiating it. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Florida State forward Okaro White (10) shoots as Virginia forward Akil Mitchell (25) defends during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Shurtleff)
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In this photo provided by Pavel Lebedev, security personnel detain Lebedev, a gay protester, during the Olympic torch relay in the city of Voronezh, 534 km (334 miles) south of Moscow, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A gay Russian protester has been detained for unfurling a rainbow flag during the Olympic torch relay as it passed through his hometown of Voronezh. Lebedev said he was protesting the hosting of the Olympics in Russia, where a bill banning homosexual propaganda was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin in June. (AP Photo/Andrei Nasonov)
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Hugh Beggs of Santa Rosa, Calif., searches for coins in the middle of the Russian River, Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014 at Healdsburg Veterans Memorial Beach in Healdsburg, taking advantage of the low 50cfs flows that during a normal winter would run at 1500cfs. In response to the critically dry winter, California Governor Jerry Brown officially declared a drought emergency for California, Friday Jan. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/ Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Kent Porter)
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FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2013 file photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal addresses attendees during the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando, Fla. A slow but steady economic recovery is generating more tax revenue than many states had anticipated, offering elected officials tantalizing choices about whether to ply voters with tax breaks, boost spending for favorite programs or sock away cash for another rainy day. The Republican Louisiana Governor wants to steer the surplus to education and health care. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
