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Rep. Peter D. King issued a statement Friday scolding Sen. Ted Cruz supporters for making "vulgar, rabid and adolescent type" phone calls to his office. (Associated Press)
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The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse from TWT staff. (Golden Hammer cropped logo)
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Bonnie Bowman, a supporter of Gov. Gary Herbert's Medicaid plan, joins others at a rally to urge the House to debate the issue, Thursday, March 5, 2015, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Lawmakers in Utah's House of Representatives rejected Gov. Gary Herbert's Medicaid plan Wednesday night and instead pushed forward their own alternative proposal to help some of the state's poor get health insurance. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Cardinal Edward Egan, left, shares a moment with Sister Dominica Rocchio of the Sisters of Charity as she and the Sisters of Charity pause in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral on their way up New York's Fifth Avenue during the St. Patrick's Day parade, Tuesday March 17, 2009. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
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FILE - In this Feb. 9, 2015 file photo, Amanda Keller holds a flag as she joins other gay marriage supporters in Linn Park, at the Jefferson County courthouse in Birmingham, Ala. In the late 1980s, support for gay marriage was essentially unheard of in America. Just a quarter century later, it’s now favored by clear majority of Americans. That dramatic shift in opinion is among the fastest changes ever measured by the General Social Survey, a widely respected survey that has measured trends on a huge array of American attitudes for more than four decades. (AP Photo/Hal Yeager, File)
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In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 16, 2015, a child holds a book while attending an HIV prevention session entitled "Healthy Choices for a Better Future" to a group comprised of children, adolescents and adults who are either HIV-positive or at high risk of catching HIV due to their circumstances, at a center run by a Kenyan non-governmental organization in the Korogocho slum neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya. AIDS has become the leading cause of death for adolescents in Africa and the second leading cause of death among adolescents globally, global health agencies said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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In this Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, file photo migrants shout behind an iron fence at the Foreigners Detention Center in Amygdaleza, Greece, north of the capital Athens, following the apparent suicide of a Pakistani detainee. European Union countries are immersed in a full-fledged migration crisis. With the EU lacking funds and resources, some officials are even floating the idea of a multinational border guard to deal with arrivals of hundreds of thousands from war-torn countries like Syria, poor African nations and non EU neighbors like Kosovo. (AP Photo/ InTime News/Nikos Halkiopoulos, File) GREECE OUT
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Fulani women cross a tributary of Lake Chad to the village of N'Gouboua, Thursday, March 5, 2015, using the same route the Nigerian refugees used to flee Boko Haram. Boko Haram militants arrived in N’gouboua before dawn on Feb. 13, marking the first attack of its kind on Chad. By the time the scorched-earth attack ended, they had burned scores of mud-brick houses by torching them with gasoline and had killed at least eight civilians and two security officers. Some 3,400 Nigerian refugees had been living in the village at the time of the attack, and all have since been relocated further inland. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Handcuffs used on men arrested for prostitution solicitation sit on a table at a hotel in Minot, N.D., on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015. Sex trafficking has become a big problem in North Dakota amid an oil boom that has brought in money and oil workers. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine) ** FILE **
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The Georgetown University campus, Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. on Wednesday, President Barack Obama signed a law funding the Homeland Security Department through the end of the budget year. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 4, 2015, as the court hears arguments in King v. Burwell, a major test of President Barack Obama's health overhaul which, if successful, could halt health care premium subsidies in all the states where the federal government runs the insurance marketplaces. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Retired neurosurgeon and potential Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson argued Wednesday that homosexuality is "absolutely" a choice, because many people "go into prison straight — and when they come out, they're gay." (CNN)
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The U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on March 4, 2015, in a major test of President Barack Obama’s health overhaul that threatens insurance coverage for millions of people. The justices are meeting Wednesday to try to determine whether the law makes people in all 50 states eligible for federal tax subsidies to cut the cost of insurance premiums.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 17, 2015, file photo, Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore poses in front the the American flag in Montgomery, Ala. The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 3, 2015 ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, a decision that flies in the face of numerous rulings by federal judges in Alabama and other states across the country who have said banning gay marriage violates the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, file)
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Entrepreneur Bruce Rastetter, host of the first-ever Iowa Agriculture Summit, rejects notions he is a kingmaker.
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In this Nov. 12, 2014, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, is seen in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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Acrobats performs for children of foreign migrant workers during a Purim party in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. The Jewish holiday of Purim commemorates the Jews' salvation from genocide in ancient Persia, as recounted in the Book of Esther, which is read in synagogues. Other customs include: sending food parcels and giving charity; dressing up in masks and costumes; eating a festive meal; and public celebrations. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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A pollster finds that 46 percent of Republicans want their candidates to be more conservative, like Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican and one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate. (Associated Press)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell wrote a recent letter to Republican leaders defending the Obamacare subsidies. (Associated Press)
