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Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell fired a major shot Thursday, taking to the chamber floor to say the rules amount to a declaration of war on free speech and vowing the GOP will try to block them. "Every American needs to know about this abuse of power," said Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican. "Let me be clear: What the administration is proposing poses a grave threat to the ability of ordinary Americans to freely participate in the Democratic process."
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Fox News host Bill O'Reilly would beat Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert in a 2016 presidential matchup, according to a Public Policy Polling survey. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Survey Program for the Department of Water Resources, weights the snow collected during the second snow survey of the year near Echo Summit, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Despite the overnight snow storm the survey showed the snow depth at 12.4 inches with a water content of only 1.4 inches for this location at this time of the year. Gehrke said that while the recent snow fall will help, it is not enough to impact the water supply.(AP Photo)
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Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Survey Program for the Department of Water Resources, checks the depth of the snow pack during the second snow survey of the year near Echo Summit, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. Despite the overnight snow storm the survey showed the snow depth at 12.4 inches with a water content of only 1.4 inches for this location at this time of the year. Gehrke said that while the recent snow fall will help, it is not enough to impact the water supply.(AP Photo)
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Volunteer teacher Alicia Soppe, right, goes over the Louisiana Purchase during a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)
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Volunteer teacher Alicia Soppe, left, with help from interpreter Liberata Aung, right, teach the war of 1812 during a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)
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Tah Bear smiles as she tries to sing the Star-Spangled Banner during a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)
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Lwee Si takes a quiz at a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)
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Phray Reh takes notes during a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)
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Lwee Si looks cover a photo of Francis Scott Key during a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP Photo/Waterloo Courier, Matthew Putney)
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Federal authorities take a man into custody after raiding a business, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, in southwest Houston. Authorities served search warrants at two businesses in the Chinatown area detaining people in a crackdown on an alleged human smuggling ring operating in Texas and other states. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)
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FILE - In this June 12, 2013 file photo, transgender student Nicole Maines, center, with her father Wayne Maines, left, and brother Jonas, speaks to reporters outside the Penobscot Judicial Center in Bangor, Maine. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, that Nicole Maines should have been allowed to use the bathroom of her choice in 2009 after school officials required her to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls' restroom. The high court concluded that the Orono school district's actions violated the Maine Human Rights Act, a state law that bans discrimination based on sexual orientation. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
