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President Trump hosted families described as "victims of Obamacare" at the White House on Monday and warned senators that Americans were demanding action on health care. (Associated Press)
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FIILE - In this March 16, 2017 file photo, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, right, listens as Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc talks about efforts to overhaul Louisiana's criminal justice system, in Baton Rouge, La. A new Louisiana law that provides a medical-furlough program for inmates could save the state millions in annual medical costs, if a proposed overhaul of the national health care system doesn’t end Medicaid expansion in the state. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte, File)
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In this July 19, 2017 photo, community advocate Tito Rodriguez, of the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, leaves after visiting with folks at Our Place in Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester, like many other communities, is seeing more addicts overdosing on more potent varieties of the drug than it did when its amnesty program rocketed to national notoriety. The rising toll is prompting city officials to try new approaches. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this July 13, 2017 photo, Gloucester Police Chief John McCarthy opens a box containing NARCAN used to reverse an opioid overdose as he discusses a new Angel Program outreach plan that will be instituted with community advocates at the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, at the police station in Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester, like many other communities, is seeing more addicts overdosing on more potent varieties of the drug than it did when its amnesty program rocketed to national notoriety. The rising toll is prompting city officials to try new approaches. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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In this July 13, 2017 photo, Gloucester Police Chief John McCarthy discusses a new Angel Program outreach plan that will be instituted with community advocates at the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, at the police station in Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester, like many other communities, is seeing more addicts overdosing on more potent varieties of the drug than it did when its amnesty program rocketed to national notoriety. The rising toll is prompting city officials to try new approaches. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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In this July 19, 2017 photo, Gloucester Police Chief John McCarthy, left, and Lt. Dave Quinn, center, discuss a new Angel Program outreach plan with community advocate Tito Rodriguez, right, of the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, at the police station in Gloucester, Mass. Nearly 300 police departments across the nation have adopted the Gloucester police department’s ANGEL program, which encourages addicts to turn in their drugs to police to get fast-tracked for treatment. But McCarthy says Gloucester is seeing more fatal overdoses than when the program began in June 2015, prompting police and addiction counselors to seek new approaches. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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In this July 19, 2017 photo, Mary, left, smiles and reaches out to community advocate Tito Rodriguez, of the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, as they discuss her need for residential substance abuse treatment, during his visit to the Grace Center in Gloucester, Mass. As an outreach worker, Rodriguez' job is to keep up with the hundreds of addicts that have gone through the program and to seek out new participants. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. lead Congressional Democrats to a news conference to unveil their new agenda, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Berryville, Va. House and Senate Democrats are offering a retooled message and populist agenda, promising to working Americans "someone has your back." (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., joined by Congressional Democrats speaks in Berryville, Va., Monday, July 24, 2017, to unveil the Democrats new agenda. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif, speaks in Berryville, Va., Monday, July 24, 2017, to unveil the Democrats new agenda. From letf are, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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CORRECTS LAST NAME TO CLARKE FROM CARTER - In this July 5, 2017, photo, Markysha Clarke poses for a portrait in Decatur, Ga., with her Taurus PT111 handgun. Clarke, a 40-year-old marketing specialist for a bank. Clarke is among the ranks of the nation's black women who own a firearm. She started taking classes but each time, "the nervous jitters" would creep in. Then about a month ago, she decided to buy a firearm for protection. She worries about remaining safe should she ever be stopped by a police officer. "As a black person in America, this is a major problem," she said. "You hope and pray you're following all the rules and that officer stopping you is following all the rules and doesn't have an agenda." (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y. and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. lead Congressional Democrats to a news conference to unveil their new agenda, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Berryville, Va. House and Senate Democrats are offering a retooled message and populist agenda, promising to working Americans "someone has your back." (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2016, file photo, broadcast personality and former Dallas Cowboys player Michael Irvin talks with people on the field before a preseason NFL football game between the Cowboys and Houston Texans, in Arlington, Texas. Prosecutors say there's insufficient evidence to file sexual assault charges against Michael Irvin, a former football star for the Dallas Cowboys and the University of Miami. A 27-year-old woman accused Irvin of drugging and sexually assaulting her at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale in March. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins, File)
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In this photo taken on Wednesday, June 21, 2017, a woman holds up a picture of a bull during a protest against bullfighting in Madrid. Lawmakers in Spain's Balearic Islands have banned spectators under age eighteen, alcohol and the killing or harming of animals at regional bullfights. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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James Mathew Bradley Jr., 60, of Clearwater, Fla., left, arrives at the federal courthouse for a hearing, Monday, July 24, 2017, in San Antonio. Bradley was taken into custody and is expected to be charged in connection to the people who died after being crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat Sunday, according to authorities in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Young girls take part in a vigil at San Fernando Cathedral for victims who died as a result of being transported in a tractor-trailer, Sunday, July 23, 2017, in San Antonio. Several people died after being crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said Sunday in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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Men look at the remains of their properties at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 24, 2017. A suicide car bomb killed dozens of people as well as the bomber early Monday morning in a western neighborhood of Afghanistan's capital where several prominent politicians reside, a government official said. (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini)
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This undated photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a scanning electron micrograph of multiple round bumps of the HIV-1 virus on a cell surface. In a report released on Monday, July 24, 2017, researchers said a South African girl born with the AIDS virus has kept her infection suppressed for 8 1/2 years after stopping anti-HIV medicines _ more evidence that early treatment can occasionally cause a long remission that, if it lasts, would be a form of cure. (Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)
