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Senate minority leader Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, right, speaks Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 during the leadership panel of the AP Legislative Preview in Olympia, Wash. Looking on are House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, left, House minority leader Dan Kristiansen, R-Snohomish, second from left, and Senate Republican leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, third from left. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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FILE - This July 30, 2012 photo provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows death row inmate Jerry Lard in Varner, Ark. The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction against Lard who was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a police officer during a traffic stop in northeast Arkansas. (AP Photo/Arkansas Department of Correction, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2013, file photo supporters pass out flowers in Maryville, Mo., before a rally for Daisy Coleman, a girl who says she was sexually assaulted when she was 14. Matt Barnett, accused of sexually assaulting Coleman when he was 17, was charged Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, with a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)
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In this photo provided by the Nodaway County, Mo., Sheriff's Department is Matt Barnett. The 19-year-old, accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old schoolmate when he was 17, was charged Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014 with a misdemeanor child endangerment charge. He is scheduled to be arraigned later Thursday. (AP Photo/Nodaway County Sheriff's Department)
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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans say Udall tried to put pressure on state health officials to change the number of people who had their health insurance policies cancelled. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh,File)
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President Barack Obama speaks about his Promise Zones Initiative, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The Promise Zone Initiative is part of a plan to create a better bargain for the middle-class by partnering with local communities and businesses to create jobs, increase economic security, expand educational opportunities, increase access to quality, affordable housing and improve public safety. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
