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In this April 25, 2014 photograph, U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., addresses a group of employees at Dunlap & Kyle Tire Company, a wholesale and retail tire dealer in Batesville, Miss. First elected to the Senate in 1978 after six years in the House, Cochran is being challenged by second-term state Sen. Chris McDaniel in the June 3 Republican primary. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Businessman Tom Steyer, a former hedge-fund manager turned climate-change hard-liner whose fortune stems in part from investments in the fossil-fuel industry, has pledged to donate $50 million and raise $50 million on behalf of four Democratic Senate and three gubernatorial candidates. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Neil Riser, R-Columbia, standing, and Sen. Bob Kostelka, R-Monroe, seated, listen to debate on a bill changing how workers compensation benefits are calculated for professional athletes, Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. The Senate labor committee narrowly voted to advance the bill pushed by New Orleans Saints NFL football team owner Tom Benson. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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Sen. Barrow Peacock, R-Shreveport, talks about a bill dealing with how workers compensation benefits are calculated for professional athletes, Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. The Senate labor committee narrowly voted to advance the bill pushed by New Orleans Saints NFL football team owner Tom Benson. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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Former NFL players Kevin Mawae, left, and Ernie Conwell, right, and lobbyist Alton Ashy represented the NFL Players Association in its opposition to a workers compensation bill pushed by New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson, Thursday, May 22, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. The Senate labor committee narrowly voted in favor of the bill. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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Dr. Monica Wehby greets supporters at the headquarters in Oregon City, Oregon after winning the Oregon Republican Primary race for Senate on Tuesday, May. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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"We believe this bill will increase the protection of children" and help ensure that parents raise children, not governments, Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat and lead sponsor of the Children in Families First Act (CHIFF) in the Senate, said Tuesday. (associated press)
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Sen. Kemp Hannon, R-Garden City, speaks during a Senate health committee meeting on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in New York has passed the Republican-led committee, one of a series of hurdles the measure will have to go through before becoming law. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Sen. Diane Savino, D-Staten Island, speaks during a Senate health committee meeting at the Capitol on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, in Albany, N.Y. A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in New York has passed the Republican-led committee, one of a series of hurdles the measure will have to go through before becoming law. Savino sponsored the legislation in the Senate. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
