Social Issues

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President Barack Obama, and Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. wave from Air Force One upon their arrival at Capital City Airport in Lansing, Mich., Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)

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In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo is Andrew Littlemoon Jr., 57, a disabled military veteran rents a home on the Standing Rock Reservation in Fort Yates, N.D. Littlemoon Jr., 57, said he worries about maintaining a propane supply through the end of the winter. (AP Photo/Kevin Cederstrom)

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FILE - This December 2012 photo provided by the family shows, from left, John, Jack and Renee Thomas at their home in Minnetrista, Minn. Jack was adopted from Russia in 2008. On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Renee went on television in Russia with an emotional appeal for an exception to be made to Russia's year-old ban on adoptions by Americans. She and her husband adopted a boy from Russia in 2008 and refuse to give up long-standing efforts to also adopt Nikolai, their son's biological brother. (AP Photo/Ron Ruud)

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FILE - In this 2009 photo provided by the family, Renee Thomas holds Nikolai at an orphanage in Kursk, Russia. On Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Thomas went on television in Russia with an emotional appeal for an exception to be made to Russia's year-old ban on adoptions by Americans. She and her husband adopted a boy from Russia in 2008 and refuse to give up long-standing efforts to also adopt Nikolai, their son's biological brother. (AP Photo)

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Police detain gay rights activists in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday Feb. 7, 2014. Police quickly detained 10 LGBT activists in Moscow who waved rainbow flags on Red Square, according to Russian news reports. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman)

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Police detain a gay rights activist in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday Feb. 7, 2014. Police quickly detained 10 LGBT activists in Moscow who waved rainbow flags on Red Square, according to Russian news reports. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman)

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A police officer detains a gay rights activist in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Friday Feb. 7, 2014. Police quickly detained 10 LGBT activists in Moscow who waved rainbow flags on Red Square, according to Russian news reports. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman)

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President Barack Obama waves as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, before boarding Marine One helicopter. The president is traveling to East Lansing, Mich. to sign the farm bill at Michigan State University. The bill expands federal crop insurance and ends direct government payments to farmers, but the bulk of its cost is for the food stamp program that aids 1 in 7 Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)