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The Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins stand for a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before the opening day baseball game in Washington, on Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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The Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins stand for a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before the opening day baseball game in Washington, on Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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The Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins stand for a moment of silence honoring the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting before the opening day baseball game in Washington, on Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Because of sequestration, we're forced to cut security on our border and benefits for our soldiers. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, who is on the disabled list after hip surgery, talks to media outside the Yankees clubhouse before the Yankees Opening Day baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in New York, Monday, April 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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** FILE ** In this Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, file photo, a pharmacist works in a lab where medicines are being produced at a Cipla manufacturing unit on the outskirts of Mumbai, India. A lawyer for healthcare activists says India's Supreme Court has rejected drug maker Novartis AG' right to patent a new version of a lifesaving cancer drug. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

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Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, answers questions from the crowd about immigration reform, gay marriage and other topics on March 28, 2013, during a town-hall-style meeting at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. (Associated Press/The Daily Courier) ** FILE **

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Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, answers questions from the crowd about immigration reform, gay marriage and other topics on Thursday, March 28, 2013, during a town-hall-style meeting at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)

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Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, answers questions from the crowd about immigration reform, gay marriage and other topics on Thursday, March 28, 2013, during a town-hall-style meeting at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)

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**FILE** Vice President Joseph R. Biden speaks on a cell phone from a member of the audience at the Disabled American Veterans National Convention in Las Vegas on Aug. 4, 2012. (Associated Press/Las Vegas Review-Journal)