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Medical marijuana bill author Sen. Scott Dibble listened as Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen argued against it on the Senate floor in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The state Senate passed a medical-marijuana bill on Tuesday more ambitious than any Gov. Mark Dayton and law-enforcement officials have said they would support. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glenn Stubbe) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
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Medical marijuana bill author Sen. Scott Dibble listened as Sen. Bill Ingebrigtsen argued against it on the Senate floor in St. Paul, MInn., Tuesday, May 6, 2014. The state Senate passed a medical-marijuana bill on Tuesday more ambitious than any Gov. Mark Dayton and law-enforcement officials have said they would support. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glenn Stubbe) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT GLEN STUBBE * gstubbe@startribune.com
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Senator Bill Ingebrigtsen called on various legislators in the Senate Chamber to ask them if they had talked to law enforcement officials in their districts as he argued against the medical marijuana bill in St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday, May 6, 2014. (AP Photo/The Star Tribune, Glenn Stubbe) MANDATORY CREDIT; ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS OUT; MAGS OUT; TWIN CITIES TV OUT
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Capitol Police officers and Senate Doorkeepers escort out people who filled the Missouri Senate Gallery in Jefferson City, Mo,, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. They were with the Faith Community Rally in Jefferson City protesting the senate's rejection of the expanded medicaid coverage under the federal healthcare reform legislation. These were the last four who refused to leave after the deliberative body was shut down for about an hours. (AP Photo/The Jefferson City News-Tribune, Julie Smith)
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Dawn Hickman, left, is glad handed after being released following a protest in the Missouri Sentate in Jefferson City, Tuesday, May 7, 2014. A number of people filled the senate gallery in and protested in an act of civil disobedience. Hickman is with the Urban Summit of Greater Kansas City and just one of the faith community to protest the senate's rejection of the expanded Medicaid coverage under the healthcare reform legislation. The deliberative body was shut down for about an hour and more than 20 people were arrested during the protest. (AP Photo/The Jefferson City News-Tribune, Julie Smith)
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Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, who would be in line to lead the Senate if his party wins control of the chamber in the November elections, is opposed to restoring the procedure of earmarking, a spokesman said. (Associated Press)
