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Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, presents a constitutional amendment to protect voters against discrimination during a House committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. The proposal would amend the constitution to provide no person shall be denied the right to register to vote or to cast a ballot in an election based on race, color, ethnicity, status as a member of a language minority, sex, sexual orientation, or income. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

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Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, presents a constitutional amendment to protect voters against discrimination during a House committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. The proposal would amend the constitution to provide no person shall be denied the right to register to vote or to cast a ballot in an election based on race, color, ethnicity, status as a member of a language minority, sex, sexual orientation, or income. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

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ADVANCE FOR USE TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014 photo, Mark Lewis listens to his son Cody, a recovering heroin addict, talk abut his life and addiction at the Good Samaritan Methodist Church in Addison, Ill. The younger Lewis traces his problems to a troubled childhood: Constant fights between his parents (they later divorced). The death of a beloved grandmother. And harassment from school bullies. He was a C-student at best; his class work started faltering in third grade. A doctor diagnosed attention deficit disorder and prescribed Adderall. A year later, he was put on antidepressants. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 photo, former heroin addict David Fitzgerald stands near the rehabilitation clinic where he works in Portland, Ore. Fitzgerald is the leader of the mentor program at Central City Concern, the only Portland rehabilitation clinic that claims a 60 percent success rate for treating heroin addiction. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)

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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, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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**FILE** President Barack Obama arrives to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on April 1, 2014, about the Affordable Care Act. (Associated Press)

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President Barack 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. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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President Barack 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. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)