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In this May 27, 2016 photo, Sue Kruczek, of Guilford, Conn., holds the last photo taken in 2013 of her entire family during a news conference at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford before Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, right, signed legislation limiting opioid prescriptions. Her 20-year old son Nick died of an overdose. Several states are considering legislation to create a non-opioid directive that patients can put in their medical files, formally notifying health care professionals do not want to be prescribed or administered opioid drugs. (Brad Horrigan/The Hartford Courant via AP)

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No opioids, please: Clearing the way to refuse prescriptions

by Susan Haigh Associated PressMarch 19, 2017

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For many older Americans, costs rise under GOP health plan

by Michael Rubinkam Associated Press, Kelli Kennedy Associated Press, and Meghan Hoyer Associated PressMarch 19, 2017

Copies of President Donald Trump's first budget are displayed at the Government Printing Office in Washington, Thursday, March, 16, 2017. Trump unveiled a 1.15 trillion budget on Thursday, a far-reaching overhaul of federal government spending that slashes many domestic programs to finance a significant increase in the military and make a down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Local lobbyist: Trump fiscal blueprint will have ripple effects on our economy and hurt the elderly

by Joshua Solomon Recorder StaffMarch 17, 2017

FILE- In this Sept. 17, 2015 file photo, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara speaks during a news conference in New York. On Wednesday, March 8, 2017, two days before Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave dozens of the country's top federal prosecutors just hours to resign and clean out their desks, Sessions gave those political appointees a pep talk during a conference call. Bharara said on Saturday, March 11, 2017, that he was fired after refusing to resign. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Report: Fired U.S. Attorney Was Probing Tom Price’s Stock Trades

by Emily Kopp Kaiser Health News, and Rachel Bluth Kaiser Health NewsMarch 17, 2017

German Chancellor Angela Merkel listens as President Donald Trump speaks during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Trump, Merkel try to sidestep differences in first meeting

by Ken Thomas Associated Press, and Jill Colvin Associated PressMarch 17, 2017

Congressman Jim McGovern, D-Mass.

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Rep. McGovern slams Trump budget effects on poor

by Staff Report March 16, 2017

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Why all this worry over Trump ties to Russia, American millennials ask

by Vera Bergengruen McClatchy Washington BureauMarch 16, 2017

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, joined by White House press secretary Sean Spicer, left, speaks about President Donald Trump's budget proposal for the coming fiscal year during daily press briefing at the White House, in Washington, Thursday, March 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Trump’s budget boosts military but cuts GOP, Dem favorites

by Andrew Taylor Associated PressMarch 16, 2017

Justin Cox of the National Immigration Law Center, representing all the plaintiffs, right, accompanied by Omar Jadwat of the ACLU, speaks to reporters outside the court in Greenbelt, Md., Wednesday, March 15, 2017. A federal judge in Maryland says he will issue a ruling in a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Federal judge in Hawaii puts Trump travel ban on hold

by Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Associated Press, and Gene Johnson Associated PressMarch 16, 2017

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., joined by, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March, 14, 2017. The White House and Republican leaders in Congress are scrambling to shore up support for their health care bill after findings from the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 14 million people would lose insurance coverage in the first year alone under the GOP replacement for Obamacare. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Defiant conservatives still fighting Trump’s health bill

by Alan Fram Associated PressMarch 15, 2017