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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, as President Donald Trump came to the Capitol to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, as President Donald Trump came to the Capitol to rally support for the Republican health care overhaul by taking his case directly to GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this June 18, 2015, file frame from video, Joey Meek, friend of Dylann Roof who is accused of killing nine black church members during Bible study on June 17 in Charleston, S.C., speaks to The Associated Press. Meek, the only person to whom Roof confided his racist plan to massacre worshippers is set to be sentenced Tuesday, March 21, 2017, for lying to the FBI. (AP Photo/File)
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In this Sunday, March 12, 2017 photo, Syrian refugees Aya al-Souqi, receives her first hearing test by Zaineb Abdulla, the Vice President of "Deaf Planet Soul" Chicago hearing charity at Joub Jannine village in the Bekaa valley, east Lebanon, Sunday, Sunday, March 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Protesters rallied last year outside the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh after the governor signed a bill that dealt a blow to the LGBT movement by preventing localities from passing anti-discrimination rules. (Associated Press)
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Kansas state Sen. Vicki Schmidt, R-Topeka, makes a comment during a Senate Ways and Means Committee discussion of budget proposals, Monday, March 20, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The committee is proposing a two percent pay increase for most state government workers. (AP Photo/John Hanna) **FILE**
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY MARCH 25 AND THEREAFTER - In a March 15, 2017 photo, Hayat Liban, left, takes notes during a citizenship class at Lincoln Community Center, in Mankato, Minn. Citizenship classes at the center and elsewhere in Mankato have had slightly higher enrollments this year, an occurrence that roughly coincides with the initial travel ban implemented by President Donald Trump in January. (Jackson Forderer/The Free Press via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY MARCH 25 AND THEREAFTER - In a March 15, 2017 photo, Mary Buak, right, and Nyawargak Jack, center, listen to teacher Tom Tacheny during a citizenship class at Lincoln Community Center in Mankato, Minn. Citizenship classes at the center and elsewhere in Mankato have had slightly higher enrollments this year, an occurrence that roughly coincides with the initial travel ban implemented by President Donald Trump in January. (Jackson Forderer/The Free Press via AP)
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In this photo taken March 13, 2017, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is seen in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington. The Trump administration is naming some names in its efforts to shame local jails that don’t cooperate with immigration authorities. It’s putting the spotlight on Travis County, Texas, home of liberal Austin. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., center, calls on Republican Gov. Larry Hogan to speak out against the House health care bill during a news conference on Monday, March 20, 2017, in Annapolis, Md. From left to right, are: Rep. John Sarbanes, Cummings, Rep. Steny Hoyer and Rep. Jamie Raskin, all Maryland Democrats. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, provided by the Cleveland County Sheriff's Office in Norman Okla., shows Ralph Shortey. The FBI in Oklahoma City confirmed Monday, March 20, 2017, it is investigating Shortey, a Republican state senator who is facing felony child prostitution charges after police say he solicited sex from a 17-year-old boy. No federal charges have been filed against Shortey. (Cleveland County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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Pro-life activists converge in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Bill Cosby departs after a pretrial hearing in his sexual assault case at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. Cosby’s lawyers hope to prescreen potential jurors to weed out those with opinions about the sex-assault case before jury selection begins in earnest. A defense motion filed Monday, March 20, 2017, says the “inflammatory” worldwide coverage of the case makes it likely that some potential jurors have opinions about the actor’s guilt or innocence. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2017, file photo, Katy Perry arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. In an acceptance speech for an award at a Human Rights Campaign dinner on March 18, 2017, in Los Angeles, Perry said she "prayed the gay away" during her "unconscious adolescence." (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE – In this combination of file photos, Penn State President Graham Spanier, left, walks on the field before an NCAA college football game Oct. 8, 2011, in State College, Pa., and former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky leaves in custody after being found guilty of child sexual abuse charges on June 22, 2012, at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. Jury selection is scheduled to begin in Harrisburg, Pa., on Monday, March 20, 2017, in Spanier's trial on charges that children were put at risk by how he responded to complaints about Sandusky more than 15 years ago. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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In this photo taken on Thursday, March 16, 2017 piles of life jackets used by refugees and migrants lie at a dump in Molyvos village, on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos. The waters off northern Lesbos once resounded to the shrieks of the drowning, the whine of outboard motors as refugees struggled to reach Europe alive, and the thudding of rescue helicopter engines. A million people crossed the straits between Turkey and Greece’s eastern Aegean islands in the year before March 20, 2016, and hundreds drowned. About half of those who made it landed on this island. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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In this Feb. 28, 2017, photo, Jackson County District Attorney Tony Lawrence talks about the evidence the authorities collected on Josh Vallum, who plead guilty to a charge of first-degree murder by deliberate design for killing Mercedes Williamson, 17, a transgender woman, in Jackson, Miss. Prosecutors say Vallum and Williamson dated and that he killed his transgender girlfriend because he worried fellow gang members would discover their relationship and kill both of them because gay sex was strictly forbidden by the Latin Kings gang. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
