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New Jersey Assembly Republican leader Jon M. Bramnick, R-Westfield, N.J., answers a question Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Earlier the assembly democrats announced a new special legislative committee will be tasked with finding out how high up New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's chain of command a plot went that was linked through emails and text messages to a seemingly deliberate plan to create traffic gridlock in a town at the base of the George Washington Bridge after its mayor refused to endorse Christie for re-election. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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New Jersey Assemblymen Loius D. Greenwald, D-Vorhees, N.J., walks from a news conference Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Greenwald, a high-ranking New Jersey Democrat says an investigation into massive local traffic jams that has ensnared Gov. Chris Christie's administration has grown into an abuse of power probe. Greenwald says a new special legislative committee will be tasked with finding out how high up Christie's chain of command the plot went. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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In this Jan. 8, 2014 photo, John Blair, left, executive director of the Cook County Sheriff's Office Intelligence Center, consults with Officer John Slepski about a firearms background check Slepski is performing at the center in Chicago. Requests to carry a gun in public are pouring in at more than 1,000 per day in the nation's last state to allow the practice, triggering concerns among Illinois' local law enforcement authorities that they could fall behind in a special 30-day process to weed out applicants with a history of violence. The Cook County Sheriff's office says it already has found about 100 applications it plans to contest after the law went into effect Jan. 5. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, left, shakes hands with President Barack Obama after their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
