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FILE - This Oct. 20, 2014 file photo shows George Stephanopoulos at the 24th Annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards in New York. Stephanopoulos has apologized for not notifying his employer and viewers about two contributions totaling $50,000 that he made to the Clinton Foundation. ABC's news division said Thursday, May 15, 2015, that "we stand behind him." The donations, made in two installments in 2013 and 2014 and first reported in Politico, were made because of Stephanopoulos' interest in the foundation's work on global AIDS prevention and deforestation, he said. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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FILE - This Oct. 20, 2014 file photo shows George Stephanopoulos at the 24th Annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards in New York. Stephanopoulos has apologized for not notifying his employer and viewers about two contributions totaling $50,000 that he made to the Clinton Foundation. ABC's news division said Thursday, May 15, 2015, that "we stand behind him." The donations, made in two installments in 2013 and 2014 and first reported in Politico, were made because of Stephanopoulos' interest in the foundation's work on global AIDS prevention and deforestation, he said. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) **FILE**

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FILE - This Oct. 20, 2014 file photo shows George Stephanopoulos at the 24th Annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards in New York. Stephanopoulos has apologized for not notifying his employer and viewers about two contributions totaling $50,000 that he made to the Clinton Foundation. ABC's news division said Thursday, May 15, 2015, that "we stand behind him." The donations, made in two installments in 2013 and 2014 and first reported in Politico, were made because of Stephanopoulos' interest in the foundation's work on global AIDS prevention and deforestation, he said. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

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In this Tuesday, June 3, 2008 file photo, an employee smokes a cigarette at a bar and restaurant in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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In this Nov. 12, 2014, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, is seen in Portland, Ore. If the latest health overhaul case before the Supreme Court gets decided the way most Republicans want, it could have a politically painful unintended consequence for GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2014 file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, on a laptop screen, is seen in Portland, Ore. If the latest health overhaul case before the Supreme Court gets decided the way most Republicans want, it could have a politically painful unintended consequence for GOP lawmakers. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

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A Mississippi Subway franchise has fired employee Sierra Mccurdy following intense backlash over a photograph she posted on Facebook that showed her in her employee's uniform celebrating the news of a tragic police shooting in Hattiesburg. (Instagram via New York Daily News)

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Kosovo, a country of 1.8 million, suffers from an unemployment rate of 40 percent, according to the World Bank. Stagnation has taken hold as the young nation experiences what some describe as the worst political and economic crisis since independence, prompting the largest mass exodus since the refugee crisis during the 1998-99 war. (Valerie Plesch/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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In this April 22, 2015, file photo, a sign at a recruiting station for Leslie's Pool supplies boasts that it is a great place to work during a National Career Fairs job fair, in Chicago. The Labor Department released employment data for April on Friday, May 8, 2015. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

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Labor union members and supporters listen during a rally as Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces a plan to get a minimum $15 an hour wage hike for fast-food workers, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in New York. Cuomo is proposing a plan to get a minimum wage hike that doesn't require legislative approval. Cuomo said he will direct the state labor commissioner to examine the minimum wage in the fast-food industry. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

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Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and MoveOn.org Civic Action launched a series of web videos in an interactive online campaign to test out ideas from the liberal agenda, starting with videos promoting a $15 minimum "living wage" and other laws to help working families.

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Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and MoveOn.org Civic Action launched a series of web videos in an interactive online campaign to test out ideas from the liberal agenda, starting with videos promoting a $15 minimum "living wage" and other laws to help working families.

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National Edition News cover for May 7, 2015 - Trump hires political players: Donald Trump waves after speaking at the Freedom Summit, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who, along with a review board must approve the decision to keep any employees deemed to have intentionally cheated on their taxes, has insisted things at his agency have improved over the last two years. (Associated Press)

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apprenticeship: Donald Trump has hired several high-profile political operatives in what many believe as laying the groundwork for a potential 2016 White House run. While continually hinting, Mr. Trump has not yet formally announced a bid. (Associated Press)

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In this March 25, 2015, file photo, Margot Riphagen, of New Orleans, wears a birth control pills costume as she protests in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, as the court heard oral arguments in the challenges of President Barack Obama's health care law requirement that businesses provide their female employees with health insurance that includes access to contraceptives. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has been under intense pressure from her Democratic Party's left wing to embrace a plan to expand Social Security benefits and pay for it with increased taxes on wealthy Americans. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for April 21, 2015 - Clinton refuses to disclose if she collects Social Security benefits : Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a round table discussion with employees at Whitney Brothers during a campaign stop, Monday, April 20, 2015, in Keene, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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This image made from video shows the scene following a bomb attack on a van carrying U.N. employees in Garowe, in the semiautonomous Puntland region of northern Somalia Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo)