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Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, speaks on the floor of the Senate during discussion of proposed amendments to a bill aimed at advancing a major liquefied natural gas project on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

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About 20 protestors are arrested at the state Capitol after disrupting the Senate by shouting and holding signs calling for Medicaid expansion at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kent D. Johnson) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

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Protesters in favor of Medicaid expansion are arrested by Georgia State Troopers after blocking the doors to the Senate chamber on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, the next to last day of the regular Legislative session, in Atlanta. Capitol police arrested several protesters who chanted from the Senate gallery in support of enlarging the Medicaid system. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

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About 20 protestors are arrested at the state Capitol after disrupting the Senate by shouting and holding signs calling for Medicaid expansion Tuesday, March 18, 2014, the next to last day of the regular Legislative session, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TV OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

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Republican Sen. Alberta Darling, of River Hills, speaks in support of her bill that would make less expensive chemotherapy drugs in pill form available on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Madison, Wis. The Senate voted 30-2 to pass the bill, after it had been blocked, sending it to the Assembly where it's unknown whether it will get a vote this year. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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Midland University president and Republican Senate candidate Ben Sasse is pictured on campus in this photo from June 5, 2013, in Fremont, Neb. The Senate Conservatives Fund, a national conservative group, has endorsed Sasse in Nebraska's U.S. Senate race on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, setting him up as the race's tea party candidate. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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In this March 6, 2014 photo, a mural featuring an allegorical image representing equality rises over the Senate chamber at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Beginning in the spring, work crews will take down paintings and sculpture and cover murals and statues as the renovation continues on the century old building. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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In this March 6, 2014 photo, the mural "Granary of the World" adorns the walls of the Senate chamber at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Beginning in the spring, work crews will take down paintings and sculpture and cover murals and statues as the renovation continues on the century old building. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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** FILE ** These file photos show Democrats senators, from left, Mary Landrieu, D-La., Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Kay Hagan, D-N.C. The South, where President Barack Obama and his party have struggled for years, will be Democrats' toughest battleground in the 2014 fight for control of the Senate. (AP Photo/File)

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Lawmakers and legislative staff stand in the House chamber while a split screen of the House and Senate is projected on a wall in advance of the Legislature adjourning its 60-day session, on Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Olympia, Wash. The Legislature passed a supplemental budget and several other bills in the final hours of session (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Lawmakers mill about on the Senate floor in between votes on the last day of the 60-day legislative session, on Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Olympia, Wash. The Legislature passed a supplemental budget and several other bills in the final hours of session. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Senate President Pro Tem David Long, R-Fort Wayne, right, talks with Sen. Greg Taylor, D-Indianapolis, in the senate chamber on the final day of the 2014 legislative session at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Thursday, March 13, 2014. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)

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Lawmakers from the House and Senate speak to the media about an agreed-upon supplemental budget on Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Olympia, Wash. The budget puts more money into basic education and caps tuition increases for public college students for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Kansas state Sens. Les Donovan, left, of Republicans, and Jeff King, of Independence, confer during the Senate's session, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Both Republicans voted for a proposed amendment to the state constitution to legalize charitable raffles. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. faces reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, following a closed-door Democratic policy meeting. The Senate seemed ready Tuesday to vote preliminary approval of a sprawling Democratic bill expanding health, education and other benefits for veterans, but the election-year measure faced conservative opposition and an uncertain fate as Republicans try to make it smaller and find ways to pay for it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Mike Lee R-Utah speaks during the Values Voter Summit, held by the Family Research Council Action, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)