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Brooklyn Nets center Jason Collins talks with reporters during practice on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Collins became the first openly gay active athlete in North America's four major professional sports Sunday, Feb. 23, signing a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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While serving as Iowa secretary of state, Matt Schultz waged a long battle for access to a federal database to help identify noncitizens who voted illegally. Now it is a federal commission that is asking states for information to determine the number of noncitizen voters. (Associated Press/File)
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As the Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney, D-West Deptford, N.J., and Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, D-Secaucus, N.J., listen, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie emphasizes a point as he delivers his budget address at the Statehouse Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Christie criticized what he calls the "exploding" costs of public employee pensions and health care in his fifth annual budget message Tuesday. Christie says the pension reforms enacted during his first term don't go far enough. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 photo, Annie Avery, left, and Alison Gross stand with their children Grace, 12 and Lily, 7 as they are married by Judge Michael Panter at the Cook County Marriage and Civil Union Court in Chicago. More than 80 same-sex couples from Illinois and have gotten marriage licenses in Cook County, including several from other counties who apparently didn't want to wait until June 1, when gay marriage becomes legal throughout the state. Cook County Clerk David Orr began issuing licenses on Friday, Feb. 21 after a federal judge ruled that Illinois' original ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional so there was nothing to stop couples from marrying now. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Jessica Koscielniak) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
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In this Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014 photo, David Wilk, center left, stands with Charlie Gurion outside the Cook County Marriage and Civil Union Court in Chicago before they were officially married. More than 80 same-sex couples from Illinois and have gotten marriage licenses in Cook County, including several from other counties who apparently didn't want to wait until June 1, when gay marriage becomes legal throughout the state. Cook County Clerk David Orr began issuing licenses on Friday, Feb. 21 after a federal judge ruled that Illinois' original ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional so there was nothing to stop couples from marrying now. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Jessica Koscielniak) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES
