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Sen. Stephanie Flowers, D-Pine Bluff, right, walks from the lectern on the floor of the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., after speaking in support of the state's compromise Medicaid expansion plan Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The Senate voted to continue the plan. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Sen. Jim Hendren, R-Gravette, speaks against reauthorized funding for the "private option" program that uses federal Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income Arkansas residents in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The Senate voted to continue the state's compromise Medicaid expansion plan. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Kansas state Senator's Garrett Love, right and Pat Apple, center, talk as Sen. Dennis Pyle, left, questions a bill expanding the state's no call law for telephone solicitors, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, in Topeka, Kan. The Senate advanced the bill. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

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Senate President Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, left, speaks with Sen. Larry Teague, D-Nashville, in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Sen. Jon Woods, R-Springdale, speaks in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. The Senate voted 32-0 to consider changing the law to give Gov. Mike Beebe the choice to not hold a special election to fill the lieutenant governor's office left vacant with the Feb. 1 resignation of Lt. Gov. Mark Darr. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Senate President Michael Lamoureux, R-Russellville, left, talks with Joint Budget Committee Co-Chairman Sen. Larry Teague, D-Nashville, in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Teague said Tuesday he told senators during a closed-door meeting that the "private-option" Medicaid plan was at risk.(AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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This frame grab image provided by Senate Television shows Vice President Joe Biden administering the Senate oath to Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont., Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walsh became the newest member of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday and faces the challenge of making his appointment more permanent. (AP Photo/Senate Television)

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Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy receives the applause of House Speaker Brendan Sharkey, left, and Senate President Donald Williams, Jr., right, during Malloy's 2014 State of the State address in front of a joint session of the legislature in the House Chambers at the Capitol in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., second from left, is applauded by her husband Tom, far left, and Speaker of the House, Democrat Terie Norelli, center, and Republican Senate President Chuck Morse, after delivering her State of the State Address at the Statehouse Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 in Concord, N.H.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)