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The federal government has a standing commitment to cover health care and pensions for retired miners. (Associated Press/File)
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This Thursday, March 9, 2017, photo shows a Life Choice clinic in San Antonio, which is among roughly two dozen women's health providers in Texas working with the Heidi Group to provide similar services offered by Planned Parenthood, such as cancer screenings or treatments for sexually transmitted diseases. Texas health officials that the Heidi Group has stumbled under a $1.6 million contract. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, march 8, 2017, photo, Alanna Irving, who is originally from San Francisco and who moved to New Zealand six years ago, poses in Wellington, New Zealand. In New Zealand, the number of Americans who applied for a grant of citizenship rose by 70 percent in the 12 weeks following the election of President Donald Trump when compared to the same period a year earlier, immigration records obtained by The Associated Press show. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2011 file photo, musician Mick Fleetwood poses for a portrait in Beverly Hills, Calif. Court records obtained Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, show that a Los Angeles judge finalized Fleetwood's marriage from Lynn Susan Frankel Fleetwood on Nov. 20, 2015, more than 20 years after the pair married. The former couple's divorce judgment does not state how their assests, or custody of their 13-year-old twin daughters, will be divided. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
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Supporters of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify for the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2017. The committee set the bill for a vote by the full Senate later this month. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)
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Opponents of SB54, which would create a statewide sanctuary for immigrants in the country illegally, prepare to testify against the measure in the Senate Appropriations Committee in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, March 13, 2017. The committee set the bill for a vote by the full Senate later this month. (AP Photo/Don Thompson)
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Budget Director Mick Mulvaney speaks outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017, after Congress' nonpartisan budget analysts reported that 14 million people would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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FILE - This Sept. 6, 2011 file booking photo provided by the Clark County Detention Center shows of Javier Righetti. A jury in Nevada is hearing an unusual question in the death penalty case of Righetti, whose guilty plea to murder in the rape, torture and mutilation of a 15-year-old high school sophomore was rejected by the state Supreme Court. Testimony resumed Monday, March 13, 2017, for jurors being asked to decide if Righetti’s attack on 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba was a premeditated act, which would make him eligible for the death penalty. (Clark County Detention Center via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2011, file photo, Javier Righetti, 19, makes his initial appearance on charges of the rape and murder of 15-year-old Alyssa Otremba at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas. Testimony resumed Monday, March 13, 2017, for jurors being asked to decide if Righetti’s attack was a premeditated act, which would make him eligible for the death penalty. (Sam Morris/Las Vegas Sun via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows death row inmate James Bigby. Bigby, who was convicted of killing a father and his infant son during a murder rampage on Christmas Eve 1987 that also left two other people dead nearly three decades ago, is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening March 14, 2017, in Texas. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)
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FILE - In this June 15, 2016 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at the season one premiere of "Greenleaf" in West Hollywood, Calif. Winfrey says she is regaining her creative confidence after finding a scripted television series that has kept viewers tuned into her OWN Network. "Greenleaf" delves into a story about the troubled first family of a sprawling Memphis, Tennessee, megachurch where adultery and domestic abuse causes disorder in a house of worship. The second season of the show premieres March 15 at 10 p.m. EDT on OWN. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
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Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny listen to the Irish national anthem after his arrival at the Massachusetts Statehouse, Monday, March 13, 2017, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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This undated photo provided by the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President, shows Navajo Nation police officer James Largo. Largo died Sunday, March 12, 2017, after responding to a domestic violence call near the small town of Prewitt, N.M. (Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice President via AP)
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Marti Kashuba holds up a sign outside of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, birth control and other behaviors he describes as evil. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) **FILE**
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FILE - In this March 9, 2017 file photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. uses charts and graphs to make his case for the GOP's long-awaited plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans pushing a plan to dismantle Barack Obama's health care law are bracing for a Congressional Budget Office analysis widely expected to conclude that fewer Americans will have health coverage under the proposal, despite President Donald Trump's promise of "insurance for everybody." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2017 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, speaks at the Anderson County Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the American Legion Post 34 in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Top Senate Democrats are warning Republicans controlling Congress against adding billions of dollars for President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall to an upcoming $1 trillion-plus catchall spending package. The warning from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and others came in a letter on Monday, March 13, to McConnell. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, has warned that any "poison pill" policy riders would galvanize his members to defeat a funding package. (Associated Press/File)
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FILE - In this March 22, 1975 file photo, a refugee clutches a baby as a government helicopter gunship carries them away near Tuy Hoa, Vietnam, 235 miles northeast of Saigon. They were among thousands fleeing from Communist advances. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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Hospitals are worried that their bottom lines will suffer under revisions to America's health care system, and also that Republicans may also put at risk advances health professionals have made in combatting the ongoing opioid epidemic. (Associated Press)
