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Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, left, of Diamond Bar, and Sen. Tom Berryhill, R-Twain Harte, walk to an ethics training session at the Library and Courts building in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has ordered all state senators and top aids to a day of ethics training in the wake of criminal charges against three Democratic senators. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, pauses to talk with fifth grade students from Deterding Elementary School, before he attended an ethics training session in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Steinberg ordered all state senators and top aids to a day of ethics training in the wake of criminal charges against three Democratic senators.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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FILE - In this April 9, 2013, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks with reporters about gun control at the Capitol in Washington. To hear party operatives describe the fight for the Senate, it’s the boogeyman billionaires against the shifty septuagenarian. Reid has been relentless in his criticism against the wealthy industrialists Charles and David Koch (kohk), who fund a network of conservative groups. Now, Republicans are adjusting their plans and going after the 74-year-old Democratic Senate leader. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, speaks to a Senate judiciary committee about his bill to lessen marijuana penalties on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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Sen. Fred Mills, R-Breaux Bridge, and Sen. Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb, D-New Orleans, listen during testimony to a Senate judiciary committee about a bill to lessen marijuana penalties on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., is interviewed at his Senate office in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, May 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, speaks during debate on the Senate floor on an education bill on Monday, April 21, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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Sen. Mike Dunleavy, speaks during debate on the Senate floor on an education bill on Monday, April 21, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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Sens. Lesil McGuire, left, and John Coghill, the majority leader, speak with Senate President Charlie Huggins during a break in floor debate on an education bill on Monday, April 21, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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In this April 20, 2014 photo, Senate Majority Leader John Coghill, second from left, R-North Pole, speaks to members during a break on the floor in Juneau, Alaska. The House and Senate plan to reconvene later Monday to try to reach resolution on an education package. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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In this April 20, 2014 photo, state Sen. Berta Gardner, left, and state Sen. Anna Fairclough, right, speak during a break in the Senate floor session in Juneau, Alaska. The House and Senate plan to reconvene later Monday to try to reach resolution on an education package. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2014 file photo, Kentucky Senate President Robert Stivers, a Republican from Manchester, Ky., looks over the Senate shortly after it convened on the first day of the 2014 Kentucky General Assembly, in Frankfort, Ky. House and Senate leaders said that a pair of tax hikes and a minimum wage increase, all of which failed to become law, will play major roles in this fall 2014's pivotal races for the Kentucky legislature. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan, File)