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In this Jan. 21, 2014, photo, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, is interviewed by The Associated Press about her proposal to let military prosecutors rather than commanders make decisions on whether to prosecute sexual assaults in the military, in her Capitol Hill office in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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National Edition News cover for January 23, 2015 - Despite infighting, GOP delivers a bill for March for Life activists: Anti-abortion protesters march by the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, during the annual March for Life rally and march. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators are gathering in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Anti-abortion demonstrators march past the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators are gathering in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

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Environmentalist Tom Steyer speaks to the Center for American Progress’s Second Annual Policy Conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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Pro-life demonstrators head towards the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decisions that declared a constitutional right to abortion. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Acting National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Christopher Hart gestures as he speaks about the recent Metro subway fire earlier this month in D.C., during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015. One woman was killed and more than 80 were sent to hospitals with smoke inhalation after a subway train filled with smoke inside a tunnel near the busy L’Enfant Plaza station in downtown Washington. Authorities have said an electrical malfunction caused the smoke, and it took 44 minutes for Metro to shut off power to the affected section of rail.(AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington is one of four lawmakers who will stand in support of the March for Life when the rally kicks off at noon on the Mall Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Joni Ernst at Work in Washington Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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A light snow falls on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, the day following President Barack Obama's State of the Union address. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bangs the gavel to start the committee's hearing to examine global challenges and U.S. national security strategy, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Alan Gross (C), the US contractor released from prison in Cuba last month, is applauded during US President Barack Obama's State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington on January 20, 2015. AFP PHOTO/POOL/MANDEL NGAN

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President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

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President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to deliver the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, watch. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

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President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)

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President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress in the House chamber Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden, and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, listen. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)