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In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar is interviewed in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar is the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature in the U.S. The 33-year-old wife, mother, refugee and immigrant reflected on her many roles and how she'll try to voice and inspiration for denigrated minority communities like her own. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar is interviewed in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar is the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature in the U.S. The 33-year-old wife, mother, refugee and immigrant reflected on her many roles and how she'll try to voice and inspiration for denigrated minority communities like her own. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar, left, confers with another lawmaker in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar is the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature in the U.S. The 33-year-old wife, mother, refugee and immigrant reflected on her many roles and how she'll try to voice and inspiration for denigrated minority communities like her own. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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In this Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017 photo, new State Rep. Ilhan Omar is interviewed in her office two days after the 2017 Legislature convened in St. Paul, Minn. Omar is the first Somali-American to be elected to a state legislature in the U.S. The 33-year-old wife, mother, refugee and immigrant reflected on her many roles and how she'll try to voice and inspiration for denigrated minority communities like her own. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
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Rep. Sam Johnson
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Equipment and supplies at Laramie Mechanical. The HVAC industry is not a traditional field for women. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1.7 percent of HVAC installers and mechanics and 4.5 percent of sheet metal workers were women, as of 2015. (Shannon Broderick /Laramie Daily Boomerang via AP)
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Chicago Police Officer Mike Donnelly, accompanied by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, left, speaks at a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Chicago. Johnson said four black people have been charged with hate crimes in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed an assault on a mentally disabled white man. Donnelly was one of the first officers on the scene. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)
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Family spokesman David Boyd, right, and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an 18-year-old man was assaulted in Chicago earlier this week. Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. Boyd is the brother-in-law of the victim. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks with reporters during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Family spokesman David Boyd and others hold a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Crystal Lake, Ill., after an 18-year-old man was assaulted in Chicago earlier this week. Four people were charged with hate crimes Thursday in connection with a video broadcast live on Facebook that showed a mentally disabled white man being beaten and taunted, threatened with a knife and forced to drink from a toilet. Boyd is the brother-in-law of the victim. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)
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Rep. Tom Price, nominated to head the Health and Human Services Department, is the first target of Senate Democrats, who are demanding more information about his stock trades in health care. (Associated Press)
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Chicago Police Commander Kevin Duffin speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson listens at left. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Chicago Police Commander Kevin Duffin speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, abut the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senator Lois Kolkhorst introduced Senate Bill 6 known as the Texas Privacy Act, which provides solutions to the federal mandate of transgender bathrooms, showers and dressing rooms in all Texas schools. The two legislators answer questions from a press availability Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in the Senate Conference room at the State Capitol in Austin, Texas. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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Protestors try to drown out a press conference with Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senator Lois Kolkhorst as they introduce Senate Bill 6 known as the Texas Privacy Act, which provides solutions to the federal mandate of transgender bathrooms, showers and dressing rooms in all Texas schools. Katie Graham shouts and makes loud noise to hinder the announcement of the filing of the bill at the state Capitol Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senator Lois Kolkhorst introduced Senate Bill 6 known as the Texas Privacy Act, which provides solutions to the federal mandate of transgender bathrooms, showers and dressing rooms in all Texas schools. (Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman via AP)
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FILE - This undated photo that appeared on Lastrhodesian.com, a website investigated by the FBI in connection with Dylann Roof, shows him posing for a photo holding a Confederate flag. During Dylan Roof's sentencing for friends and family members walked up to the witness stand and testified about the nine black church members gunned down during a Bible study. The testimony came during the sentencing phase of Dylann Roof's death penalty trial. (Lastrhodesian.com via AP, File)
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From left, House Minority Leader Dan Kristiansen, R-Snohomish, Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, Senate Minority Leader Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, and House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, take part in the annual AP Legislative Preview, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
