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Senate leaders and their staff discuss school funding legislation during the chamber's session, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. They are, left to right, Ryan Gilliland, Senate President Susan Wagle's chief of staff; Wagle, a Wichita Republican; Tim Graham, Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley's chief of staff, and Hensley, a Topeka Democrat. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Michigan Department of Human Services case worker Matt Goff helps a person apply for the Healthy Michigan plan on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the department’s Ingham County office in Lansing, Mich. The expanded Medicaid plan launched Tuesday and is intended to provide health insurance for hundreds of thousands more low-income adults. (AP Photo/Emma Fidel)
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Michigan Department of Human Services case worker Matt Goff helps a person apply for the Healthy Michigan plan on Tuesday, April 1, 2014, at the department’s Ingham County office in Lansing, Mich. The expanded Medicaid plan launched Tuesday and is intended to provide health insurance for hundreds of thousands more low-income adults. (AP Photo/Emma Fidel)
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Virginia Secretary of Finance Ric Brown, center at podium, speaks during a meeting of the Senate Finance Committee at the state Capitol in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The Committee held a public hearing on Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's budget proposal. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, shown here at a charity steer auction, will welcome Rep. Paul Ryan to the Hawkeye State next week. (Office of Gov. Branstad)
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FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2011, file photo, a corrections officer keeps watch outside the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, two days before Texas is scheduled to execute convicted killer Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas, its first inmate with a new batch of lethal injection drugs obtained last month, the state prison agency again is seeking to keep the source of the drugs secret, citing threats of violence to pharmacies that sell drugs used in lethal injections. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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FILE - Convicted killer Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas is shown in this file image provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, two days before Texas is scheduled to execute Hernandez-Llanas, its first inmate with a new batch of lethal injection drugs obtained last month, the state prison agency again is seeking to keep the source of the drugs secret, citing threats of violence to pharmacies that sell drugs used in lethal injections. (AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice, File)
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President Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, about the Affordable Care Act. The deadline to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act passed at midnight Monday night. (Associated Press)
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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw, right, who the Dodgers placed on the disabled list last week, talks fellow pitcher Dan Haren prior to a baseball game Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)
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**FILE** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sits in the audience as she waits for President Barack Obama to make a statement on the Affordable Care Act on April 1, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama, followed Vice President Joe Biden, arrives speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, about the Affordable Care Act. The deadline to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act passed at midnight Monday night. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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This undated handout photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, shows Ohio death row inmate Arthur Tyler, who is scheduled to be the next execution in the state on May 28, 2014. Four people were sentenced to death in Ohio last year, according to an annual report on capital punishment in the state which says a total of 320 death sentences have been handed down under Ohio’s 1981 law. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction)
