Social Issues

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 12, 2013. (Associated Press)

** FILE ** Rep. Kendell Kroeker, R-Evansville, addresses the Judiciary Committee of the Wyoming State Senate on Wed., Feb. 20, 2013, at the state Capitol in Cheyenne. Kroeker is sponsor of a bill that would seek to exempt Wyoming from any federal assault weapons ban. (AP Photo/Ben Neary)

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Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration against regional government-imposed austerity plans to restructure and part-privatize the health care sector in Madrid, Spain, Feb. 17.

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**FILE** Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Linda McMahon (right) and husband Vince McMahon wait for delegate totals to be tallied during the Republican nomination at the Connecticut Republican Convention in Hartford, Conn., on May 21, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of State John Kerry delivers his first foreign policy speech on Feb. 20, 2013, in Old Cabel Hall at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at the White House about the sequester as he stands with emergency responders, a group of workers the White House says could be affected if state and local governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this July 7, 2012, file photo former first lady Laura Bush is seen in Arlington, Texas. Bush spokeswoman Anne MacDonald said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013, that the former first lady wants to be removed from a pro-gay marriage group's national advertising campaign featuring prominent people speaking on the topic. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)