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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama gestures as he gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. When Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, he isn’t just setting out his own agenda. He’s also delivering an opening salvo in the yearlong fight for control of Congress. Although not explicitly political, the speech will frame an economic argument that Democrats hope will appeal to voters across the country. Obama has turned his attention in the second term to what government can do to increase social mobility and reduce income inequality. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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FILE - In this June 27, 2013 photo, Ty Fahner, right, head of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, speaks during a public pension hearing in Chicago. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn heads into his State of the State address Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 with his top priority of pension reform inked into the law. Quinn's role in the pension overhaul has been criticized. Fahner said it wasn’t until 2011, two years after Quinn took office, that Quinn took it seriously. By that time Illinois’ pension crisis was evolving into a national embarrassment. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, file)
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FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2013 file photo, Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, right, watches as the voting begins on the pension reform bill at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. The House passed the bill with a vote of 62-53. Gov. Pat Quinn's role in the pension overhaul will be one of the spotlights his State of the State address on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, where to lays out the goals in a year where he faces re-election and recaps his accomplishments. How much credit the Chicago Democrat can take for what he’s called the signature achievement of his governorship is up for debate. (AP Photo/The State Journal-Register, Justin L. Fowler, File)
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FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2013 file photo, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Chicago. Quinn heads into his State of the State address Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, with his top priority of pension reform inked into the law. The speech is a chance for him to lay out goals in a year where he faces re-election and recap his accomplishments. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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Robert Clark poses for a photo outside of his office on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, in Menlo Park, Calif. Clark has recently signed up for health insurance using the new federal marketplace. Parents shopping for health insurance through the new federal marketplace are running into trouble when their children might be eligible for Medicaid but they are not. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
