Senate

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New Jersey Assemblyman Vincent Prieto, center, stands with Senate President Stephen Sweeney, right, and majority leader Lou Greenwald, back, as the Democrats gave their rebuttal following Gov. Chris Christie's State Of The State address at the Statehouse, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Alabama Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey gavels in the Senate during the first day of the regular legislative session, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, at the Alabama State House in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/AL.com, Julie Bennett) MAGS OUT.

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Lt. Gov. Glenn McConnell presides over the Senate during the first day of the South Carolina Legislature on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

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A color guard of the Tennessee Highway Patrol practices in the Senate chamber before the start of the legislative session in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)

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FILE - This Aug. 1, 2013, file photo shows Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., flanked by Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. Top congressional negotiators released on Jan. 13, 2014, a bipartisan $1.1 trillion spending bill that would pay for the operations of government through October and finally put to rest the bitter budget battles of last year. The 1,582-page bill was released after weeks of negotiations between House Appropriations Committee Chairman Harold Rogers, R-Ky., and Senate counterpart Mikulski, who kept a tight lid on the details. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Lt. Gov. Brad Owen, left, looks on as Sen. Sharon Brown, R-Kennewick, right, is sworn in as vice president pro tem of the Senate by Washington state Supreme Court Justice James Johnson, center, on the first day of the 2014 session of the Washington state Legislature, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Senate minority leader Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, right, speaks from the floor on the first day of the 2014 session of the Washington state Legislature, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Lt. Gov. Brad Owen bangs the gavel as he conducts business in the Senate chamber on the first day of the 2014 session of the Washington state Legislature, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)