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Lawmakers in the House watch as votes on a bill is tallied on the last day of the 60-day legislative session, on Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Olympia, Wash. Lawmakers passed a supplemental budget and several other bills in the final hours of session. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, right, hugs Minority Leader Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, after a news conference at the Utah State Capitol Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Salt Lake City. After 45-days of meetings and debate, hundreds of bills and a few protests, the 2014 legislative session is set to close at midnight Thursday. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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In this Thursday, March 13, 2014, photo, girls study at an orphanage in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, March 13, 2013. The director of the shelter says that she will not allow to marriage of minors at her orphanage, despite a contentious civil status draft law for Iraqi Shiite community that allows child marriage and restricts women's rights. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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House Minority Leader Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, listens to debate on the final day of the 2014 legislative session at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
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FILE - This photo provided by the Ashland County Sheriff's Office shows Daniel Brown. Brown pleaded guilty last year to a single conspiracy charge and agreed to cooperate with the investigation. A judge handed down a five-year prison sentence for Brown, the first of four people being sentenced on charges related to enslaving a mentally disabled woman for two years with her young child in northeast Ohio. (AP Photo/Ashland County Sheriff Department, File)
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This January 24, 2013 photo provided by The Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College shows security officer Griselde Camacho on duty at the school in New York. Camacho, 45, who worked for the university since 2008, was killed Wednesday, March 12, 2014 in gas leak-triggered explosion that reduced two buildings in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York to a pile of smashed bricks, splinters and mangled metal. Rescuers pulled four additional bodies from the rubble Thursday, raising the death toll to at least seven. (AP Photo/The Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, Jim Agolli)
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Lawmakers from the House and Senate speak to the media about an agreed-upon supplemental budget on Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Olympia, Wash. The budget puts more money into basic education and caps tuition increases for public college students for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Thomas Gannt, married in Washington, D.C., with Juan Del Hierro, carries his son Lucas Del Hierro-Gannt, listens during a news conference, in Miami Beach, Fla., Thursday, March 13, 2014. Howard Simon, Executive Director American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, announced that eight gay couples and the ACLU have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force Florida to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. The lawsuit names Gov. Rick Scott and other top Florida officials. It asks a judge to declare Florida's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages as unconstitutional. The lawsuit also wants a ruling requiring the state to recognize the marriages. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Howard Simon, Executive Director American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, gestures as he announces that eight gay couples and the ACLU have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force Florida to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, in Miami Beach, Fla., Thursday, March 13, 2014. The lawsuit names Gov. Rick Scott and other top Florida officials. It asks a judge to declare Florida's refusal to recognize same-sex marriages as unconstitutional. The lawsuit also wants a ruling requiring the state to recognize the marriages.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
