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ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS - In this Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, photo, Stephanie Gravuer and Luis Reyes share a laugh while working at Associated Production Services Inc. in Lower Southampton Township, Pa. The assembly and packaging company provides vocational training to adults with disabilities and employs nearly 600 workers at sites throughout Greater Philadelphia. (Kim Weimer/Bucks County Courier Times via AP)
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Del. Steven Landes, R-Augusta, delivers a speech on the Republican health care initiatives during the House session at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Francois Leyla Deroty, 16-month-old, cries during an examination at a private clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday Jan. 19, 2017. Leyla Deroty was taken to the private clinic for treatment due to staff strikes, as nurses, janitors, stretcher bearers and other personnel have walked out of Haiti's chronically troubled public health system to demand better pay and working conditions. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2016 file photo, former Energy Secretary and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson poses in his office in Santa Fe, N.M. President-elect Donald Trump's decision not to appoint any Latinos to his cabinet is drawing fierce criticism from Hispanics. The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country. Richardson, whose mother was from Mexico, said the lack of appointments by Trump is telling. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2012, file photo, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis speaks in Los Angeles. President-elect Donald Trump's decision not to appoint any Latinos to his cabinet is drawing fierce criticism from Hispanics. The move means no Latino will serve in a presidential cabinet for the first time in nearly 30 years and comes at a time when Hispanics are now the largest minority group in the country. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2017 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Trump’s decision not to appoint any Latinos to his cabinet is drawing fierce criticism from Hispanics who called it a major setback given that Latinos are now the nation’s largest minority group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Entertainer Willi Tokarev, center, an 82-year-old Russian emigre to the U.S. appears during a nightclub party entitled "Trumplissimo America!" in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Twenty-four hours before Donald Trump is to be sworn in as president of the United States, people gathered at a Moscow nightclub to celebrate his inauguration. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Arkansas state Rep. Andy Mayberry, left, takes notes as Victoria Leigh testifies against an abortion-restriction bill on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union at the Arkansas State Capitol Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. The House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee endorsed Mayberry's proposal, which would ban dilation and evacuation, which is a common abortion procedure in the second trimester. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
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Arkansas state Rep. Andy Mayberry waits as the House Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee votes on his proposal to restrict dilation and evacuation abortions Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at the State Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. The panel agreed to the restrictions on a voice vote. If Mayberry's ban becomes law, Arkansas would be the third state to prohibit the procedure, behind Mississippi and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., together with Democratic House members, speaks to reporters about the Affordable Care Act, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Steve Mnuchin has seen his confirmation for Treasury Secretary stalled due to tactics led by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and other members of the Democratic Party. (Associated Press)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Jan. 5, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson, File)
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Death penalty opponents hold a candlelight vigil outside the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Ricky Gray was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and to life in prison for the slayings of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Death penalty opponents hold a candlelight vigil outside the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. Ricky Gray was sentenced to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and to life in prison for the slayings of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey.(AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., left, is greeted on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., prior to testifying at this confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE – In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, following a ceremony where President Barack Obama honored the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, answers questions from reporters outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington. Republican governors who turned down billions in federal dollars from an expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law now have their hands out in hopes the GOP Congress comes up with a new formula to provide insurance for low-income Americans. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Health and Human Services Secretary-designate, Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2016, file photo, Central American migrants newly released after processing by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol are fitted for shoes at the Sacred Heart Community Center in the Rio Grande Valley border city of McAllen, Texas. Central Americans attempting to enter the United States illegally on the country's border with Mexico helped drive a 15 percent increase in immigration arrests during the 2016 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security figures released Friday, Dec. 30. 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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The U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo is relatively empty these days, but the population is likely to rise during the Trump administration. (Associated Press)
