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Mark Barden, right, father of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim Daniel Barden, speaks alongside his wife, Jackie, center, and other Newtown parents, at the Capital in Hartford, Conn., Monday, April 1, 2013. Families of the school shooting victims were there to ask lawmakers to include a ban on existing high-capacity magazines in a legislation addressing gun control spurred by the massacre. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, Mara Lavitt)
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**FILE** Smokers without medical insurance receive free nicotine patches and gum at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic inside the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles on April 27, 2010. (Associated Press)
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A moment of silence is taken for the victims of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. before the Washington Nationals play the Miami Marlins on opening day at Nationals Park, Washington, D.C., Monday, April 1, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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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)
