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Protestors filled the Capitol rotunda in Helena, Mont., during a February rally to show support in an attempt to change the Montana Constitution to define life as beginning at conception. The so-called personhood initiative is intended to prompt a legal challenge to Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a legal right to abortion. (AP Photo)
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Bills in the Senate is still as a statue in the Capitol Rotunda, but Republicans hope to get things moving if they win control of the chamber in the midterm elections. Polls suggest they have a solid chance. (Associated Press)
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The statue of George Washington is seen surround by scaffolding after safety netting was installed around the inside the Capitol Rotunda, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Five layers of safety netting where used as part of a $60 million restoration project of the Capitol dome and is the first major renovation since 1960. (AP Photo)
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Safety netting is seen installed around the inside the Capitol Rotunda, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Five layers of safety netting where used as part of a $60 million restoration project of the Capitol dome and is the first major renovation since 1960. (AP Photo)
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William Hamilton, the president of the Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters, speaks at a rally in a packed Pennsylvania Capitol Rotunda as labor unions widened their fight against legislation to prevent the state and local governments from deducting union dues and union political action committee contributions from the paychecks of unionized workers, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
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Rob McCord, the Pennsylvania state treasurer and prospective Democratic candidate for governor, speaks at a labor union rally in a packed Pennsylvania Capitol Rotunda as unions widened their fight against legislation to prevent the state and local governments from deducting union dues and union political action committee contributions from the paychecks of unionized workers, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
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People walk past the state seal of Washington on the floor of the Capitol rotunda 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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American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist Harry Belafonte, Jr., center, reacts as Dream Defenders Executive Director Phillip Agnew, bottom left, leads a chant Friday, July 26, 2013, in the Capitol rotunda in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears)
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House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), left, looks on as Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, center, is handed the Congressional Gold Medal from Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), right, in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
