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More than 600 women's rights protesters, many wearing Planned Parenthood T-shirts with the words “Stand With Texas Woman,” gather at the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 23, 2013, as House Democrats began a series of parliamentary maneuvers to stop the Republican majority from passing some of the toughest abortion restrictions in the country. (AP Photo/Austin American-Statesman/Statesman.com, Ricardo B. Brazziell)
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** FILE ** With her face reflected in a mirror, Coy Mathis, left, a transgender girl, plays with her sister, Auri, 2, center, at their home in Fountain, Colo., on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Tyson Gay, center, leads Isiah Young, left, and Wallace Spearmon, right, during the senior men's 200-meter dash finals at the U.S. Championships athletics meet on Sunday, June 23, 2013, in Des Moines, Iowa. Gay won the race. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, accompanied by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (right), Texas Republican, and Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)
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A man sits at a Shiite mosque targeted by a suicide bomber in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday, June 21, 2013. Militants opened fire on a Shiite Muslim mosque where worshippers were gathering for Friday prayers, and then a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside, killing more than a dozen people in the latest attack aimed at the minority sect, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican questions why the Department of Agriculture is spending money on starting wine festivals, marketing a Bloody Mary mix and helping homeowners on tony Martha's Vineyard while Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack says the sequester is forcing him to cut off food aid for 600,000 needy women and children.
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Voters in the Lone Star State have picked their very own freshman senator as the most promising White House hopeful. Sen. Ted Cruz grabbed 25 percent of the vote in a University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. (Associated Press)
