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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Holder called on a group of states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that have a disparate impact on racial minorities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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**FILE** House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. gets a kiss from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio after he was re-elected as House Speaker as the 113th Congress began, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California gestures after passing the gavel House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who was re-elected as House Speaker of the 113th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on Jan. 3, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2014 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Holder called on a group of states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that have a disparate impact on racial minorities. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Assembly Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca speaks out against Gov. Scott Walker's proposed $504 million property and income tax cut proposal on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)
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In this Feb. 7, 1990, file photo, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Shirley Temple Black, second from right, talks to U.S. Secretary of State James Baker during a ceremony at the Wenceslas Square in Prague, in memory of Czech student Jan Palach who self-immolated in protest against the Soviet invasion. Temple, who died at her home near San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, at 85, sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers and remains the ultimate child star decades later. (AP Photo/Pavel Horeisi, File)
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Gov. Jay Inslee announces Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, that he is suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state during a news conference in Olympia, Wash. Inslee's moratorium, which will be in place for as long as he is governor, means that if a death penalty case comes to his desk, he will issue a reprieve, which isn't a pardon and doesn't commute the sentences of those condemned to death. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Gov. Jay Inslee announces Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, that he is suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state during a news conference in Olympia, Wash. Inslee's moratorium, which will be in place for as long as he is governor, means that if a death penalty case comes to his desk, he will issue a reprieve, which isn't a pardon and doesn't commute the sentences of those condemned to death. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
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Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee announces Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, that he is suspending the use of the death penalty in Washington state. Inslee's moratorium, which will be in place for as long as he is governor, means that if a death penalty case comes to his desk, he will issue a reprieve, which isn't a pardon and doesn't commute the sentences of those condemned to death. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)
