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Sen. Jim Hendren, R-Gravette, speaks against reauthorized funding for the "private option" program that uses federal Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income Arkansas residents in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The Senate voted to continue the state's compromise Medicaid expansion plan. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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FILE - In this May 31, 2012 file photo, Marvin Norwood , left, with attorney Victor Escobedo, center, and co-defendant Louie Sanchez appear during a preliminary hearing held in Los Angeles Superior court. The two men have pleaded guilty on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 in Los Angeles to a 2011 beating at Dodger Stadium that left San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow brain damaged and disabled. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Irfan Khan, Pool, File)
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** FILE ** In this Feb. 12, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The White House says President Barack Obama's upcoming budget proposal will not include his past offer to accept lowered cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other benefit programs. Those had been a central component of his long-term debt-reduction strategy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Dennis McGuire. Condemned inmate McGuire made gasp-like snoring sounds for several minutes during his 26-minute execution on Jan. 16, the longest since Ohio resumed putting inmates to death in 1999. Ohio’s most recent batches of lethal injection drugs were produced by a company that wants states to stop using them for capital punishment, records show. Lake Forest, Ill.-based Hospira Inc. says it manufactures the drugs, the sedative midazolam and the painkiller hydromophone, to enhance and save the lives of patients it helps treat. The company says it objects to their use in capital punishment. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, File)
