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    Kenneth Starr now heads Baylor University after a career in law that included a stint as special prosecutor in the Monica Lewinsky matter. Some Republicans, including Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, want a special prosecutor to investigate the current IRS scandal.


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    Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, is giving the presidential nomination course a test run with appearances in Iowa and New Hampshire. (Associated Press)


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    Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, introduced an amendment to the immigration bill that would prevent changes to the asylum or refugee systems until after an audit of what went wrong in Boston. (Associated Press)


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    Ken Starr, a former independent special counsel of the Clinton era, is now president of Baylor University. (Baylor University)


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    U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her chambers in New York on Friday, May 17, 2013. Judge Scheindlin is presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)


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    Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department, on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Mr. Pruitt said that the seizure of the records was "unconstitutional" and that the secret subpoena has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)


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    Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department, on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Mr. Pruitt said that the seizure of the records was "unconstitutional" and that the secret subpoena has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists. (AP Photo/CBS, Chris Usher)


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    President Obama speaks on the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday May 15, 2013. Mr. Obama announced the resignation of Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


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    First responders attend to a victim who was hit by a car during the Hikers Parade at the Trail Days festival in Damascus, Va., on Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Republican-American, Bill O'Brien)


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