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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, greets participants before a roundtable discussion about President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee policies in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, speaks next to Dean Ito Taylor of the Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach before a roundtable discussion about President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee policies in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at a news conference after participating in a roundtable discussion about President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee policies in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. The San Francisco Democrat told more than a dozen people gathered at a federal building that immigrants who come to the United States with their courage and dreams make "America more American." (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks a news conference after participating in a roundtable discussion about President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee policies in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California speaks at a news conference after participating in a roundtable discussion about President Donald Trump's immigration and refugee policies in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Protesters hold signs during a rally in support of transgender youth, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, at the Stonewall National Monument in New York. They were demonstrating against President Donald Trump's decision to roll back a federal rule saying public schools had to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms of their chosen gender identity. The rule had already been blocked from enforcement, but transgender advocates view the Trump administration action as a step back for transgender rights. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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A welcome sign in three languages is displayed in a yard in Salem, Ore., Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. Emphasizing ways in which Oregon is reliant on immigrants, the state has told a federal court it wants to join Washington state's lawsuit against President Donald Trump's immigration ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016 file photo, Creighton guard Maurice Watson Jr. (10) dribbles in the lane against Seton Hall during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Omaha, Neb. Police said Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 that Creighton basketball player Maurice Watson Jr. is a suspect in an alleged sexual assault in Omaha. (AP Photo/John Peterson, File)
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Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, speaks to the Utah House of Representatives, at the Utah State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Love says that though she's opposed to abortion, she's running a proposal to make it easier to get birth control pills by allowing women to get it over-the-counter. Love told lawmakers that she feels it's her duty to protect life but it's not her job to tell people how to plan their families. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, reaches to shake hands with Sen. Brian Shiozawa, R-Salt Lake, right, after speaking to the Utah Senate, at the Utah State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Love says that though she's opposed to abortion, she's running a proposal to make it easier to get birth control pills by allowing women to get it over-the-counter. Love told lawmakers that she feels it's her duty to protect life but it's not her job to tell people how to plan their families. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, speaks to the Utah Senate, at the Utah State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Love says that though she's opposed to abortion, she's running a proposal to make it easier to get birth control pills by allowing women to get it over-the-counter. Love told lawmakers that she feels it's her duty to protect life but it's not her job to tell people how to plan their families. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, waves before speaking to the Utah House of Representatives, at the Utah State Capitol Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, in Salt Lake City. Love says that though she's opposed to abortion, she's running a proposal to make it easier to get birth control pills by allowing women to get it over-the-counter. Love told lawmakers that she feels it's her duty to protect life but it's not her job to tell people how to plan their families. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2015 file photo, Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Conaway is criticizing women who carried explicit signs at the Women’s March in Washington last month. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2017 file photo, protesters build a wall of signs outside the White House in Washington, for the Women's March on Washington. A Texas Republican is criticizing women who carried explicit signs at the Women’s March in Washington last month. Rep. Mike Conaway said women were carrying signs and wearing costumes “in the foulest, nastiest, crudest, crassest manner possible, talking about female body parts.” (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, left, shakes hands with Mexico's Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray after a joint statement to the press at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Mexico City, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. Mexico's mounting unease and resentment over President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown are looming over a Thursday meeting between Tillerson, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, and Mexican leaders that the U.S. had hoped would project a strong future for relations between neighbors. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, following a meeting with Mexico's Foreign Secretary Videgaray. (Carlos Barria/Pool Photo via AP)
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens at right as Mexico's Foreign Secretary Videgaray speaks after a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City, Mexico, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017. (Carlos Barria/Pool Photo via AP)
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FILE - In this April 25, 2016 file photo, protesters rally against House Bill 2 in Raleigh, N.C., which would require transgender people to use restrooms in many public buildings that match their original gender. Because of the bill, several major sports organizations shifted events away from North Carolina and businesses such as PayPal decided not to expand in the state. In November, Republican Pat McCrory, who signed and defended the bill, became the only incumbent governor to lose in the general election. (Chuck Liddy/The News & Observer via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 file photo, North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore speaks as the North Carolina General Assembly convenes for a special session in Raleigh, N.C., to see if enough lawmakers are willing to repeal a 9-month-old law that limited LGBT rights, including which bathrooms transgender people can use in public schools and government buildings. (Chris Seward /The News & Observer via AP)
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FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2017, file photo, Brad Kent, chief sales and services officer for Visit Dallas, holds a sign at a news conference at the state capitol in Austin, Texas, to oppose a Texas "bathroom bill." Bills to curtail transgender people's access to public restrooms are pending in a dozen states, but even in conservative bastions such as Texas and Arkansas they may be doomed by high-powered opposition. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
