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Florida Speaker of the House Richard Corcoran, left, and Senate President Joe Negron speak to the media after the 2017 legislative session ended Monday night May 8, 2017 at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves the chamber to meet with Senate Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Schumer is asking that Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his deputy appear before the Senate to answer questions about the circumstances surrounding President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville, casts a vote during a Senate session Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, standing at left, speaks during a Senate session Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, speaks during a Senate session Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Senate Democrats discuss an education bill they will debate in the Senate, Wednesday, May 3, 2017, during a meeting at the Capitol, in Tallahassee, Fla. (Scott Keeler /Tampa Bay Times via AP)
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. speaks to reporters about President Donald Trump's first 100 days on April 28, 2017, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, from his official Senate portrait. (Senate.gov)
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Sen. Cory Gardner, Colorado Republican, from his official Senate portrait. (Senate.gov)
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Alaska Senate Finance Committee Co-Chair Lyman Hoffman, left, speaks to reporters during a Senate majority news conference on Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Juneau, Alaska. Listening at right is Alaska Senate Majority Leader Peter Micciche. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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Speaker of the House Taylor Baras, R-New Iberia, left, and Senate President John Alario, R-Westwego, share a laugh after Gov. John Bel Edwards addressed the joint session during opening day at the Louisiana legislature Monday April 10, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. (Bill Fig/The Advocate via AP, Pool)
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In this frame grab from video provided by Senate Television, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore. speaks on the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Merkley held the Senate floor through the night and was still going in an attention-grabbing talk-a-thon highlighting his party’s opposition to President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. (Senate Television via AP)
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In this March 21, 2017, file photo, Supreme Court Justice nominee Neil Gorsuch testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. A divided Senate Judiciary Committee backed Gorsuch, Monday, April 3, 2017. GOP likely to change Senate rules to confirm him. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Illustration on the Senate's so-called "nuclear option" in ending a filibuster attempt by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 1987 file photo, Judge Robert Bork, nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court, is sworn before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill at his confirmation hearing. Supreme Court nominations became politically contentious about 222 years ago when the Senate voted down George Washington’s choice for chief justice. Republicans point to 1987, when Democrats led the way in rejecting Reagan's nomination of Bork for the high court. The 58-42 vote against Bork came after a full hearing and Senate debate. (AP Photo/John Duricka)
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N.C. Senate President pro tem Phil Berger, left front, and Sen. Harry Brown, right front, and other senators listen as HB 142 is debated on the Senate floor in the General Assembly in Raleigh, NC. It is a bill to replace the controversial HB2. The bill passed the Senate, and then went to the House, where it also passed. (Chris Seward/The News & Observer via AP)
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William Hale, left, urges lawmakers to override Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's veto of Senate bill 91 in Frankfort, Ky., on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. House and Senate leaders planned to meet behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon to discuss Bevin's vetoes of bills about mental health , naming roads , regulating drones and spending money from a legal settlement with Volkswagen. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 14, 2017. Senate Republicans and Democrats appear to be on collision course over President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court and whether to changes Senate rules to get him confirmed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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Rhode Island Senate Majority Leader Dominick Ruggerio, D- North Providence, listens as the Democratic caucus nominates him to run for Senate President at the Rhode Island Statehouse Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
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Sen. Dominick Ruggerio is sworn in as President of the Rhode Island Senate by former Senate President and Superior Court Judge Joseph Montalbano as Ruggerio's granddaughter Ava Ruggerio holds the bible at the Rhode Island Statehouse Thursday, March 23, 2017, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)
