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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017, photo, Rep. Jon Stanard, R-St. George, votes on the House floor, at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City. The Utah House of Representatives is investigating whether a lawmaker who abruptly resigned used a state-issued cellphone and hotel room paid for with taxpayer money to arrange trysts with a prostitute. House Speaker Greg Hughes declined to comment on a Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, report in British newspaper the Daily Mail that former Republican Rep. Stanard twice hired a prostitute in 2017. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Douglas Haig takes questions from reporters at a news conference in Chandler, Ariz., Feb. 2, 2018. Haig, a 55-year-old aerospace engineer who sold ammunition as a hobby for about 25 years, said he lawfully sold ammunition to Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 58 people and injured hundreds more in the Las Vegas shooting of Oct. 1, 2017. Haig has since been charged with illegally manufacturing and selling armor-piercing ammunition to Paddock. (AP Photo / Brian Skoloff)

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2007, file photo, a tractor and trailer sit near an outbuilding on a small farm, not far from a cooling tower at the Salem Nuclear Generating Station operated by Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. in Lower Alloways Creek Township, N.J. Lobbyists for New Jersey's largest utility worked with former Gov. Chris Christie's administration to craft a $300 million bail out for nuclear power, while adding language to shield the company's financial information from the public, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. The bill is set for a vote Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018, in a state Senate committee. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady looks at the stitches in his right hand as he speaks to the media following the AFC championship NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Jan. 21, 2018, in Foxborough, Mass. The Patriots won 24-20 behind Brady, who played despite the injury which occurred in practice four days earlier. (AP Photo / Charles Krupa)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, center, and Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, right, announce that there will be no new offshore drilling in the Florida, during a news conference at the Tallahassee International Airport, Jan. 9, 2018. The Florida announcement triggered immediate criticism from other states opposed to the oil drilling plan. (Scott Keeler / Tampa Bay Times via AP)

People live in tents and trailers in Rockport, Texas, Dec. 15, 2017, four months after Hurricane Harvey. The AP revealed that the federal government typically spends up to $150,000 apiece on the trailers it leases to disaster victims, then auctions them at cut-rate prices after 18 months of use or the first sign of minor damage. Officials have continued the practice amid a temporary housing shortage in Texas, where almost 8,000 applicants were still awaiting federal support after Hurricane Harvey. (Kim Porter via AP)

Recovering heroin addict Shawnee Wilson holds her son Kingston at her apartment in Indianapolis, Aug. 8, 2017. Despite some relapses, sheÕs been clean several months and is convinced sheÕll be able to stay clean. The clock is ticking. Federal law dictates the loss of parental rights for those whose children have been in foster care for 15 out of the previous 22 months. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

A man rides a motorcycle past a home engulfed by a massive wildfire, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017, in Ventura, Calif. Wind-whipped flames consumed hundreds of homes in the city, 80 miles northwest of Los Angeles. (AP Photo / Jae C. Hong)

In this Oct. 20, 2017 photo, Jamain Lee, center, looks at classmate Andre'veon Mosby at Milwaukee Math and Science Academy, a charter school in Milwaukee. Next to him is classmate Dreamnoel Haynes, with Brianca Williams facing them. Lee has seen his grades improve since he enrolled two years ago from a school where he was bullied and frequently got into fights. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, D-Mich., questions Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Neurologist Dr. Ricardo Cruciani in Philadelphia, Nov. 21, 2017, after pleading guilty, to misdemeanor charges that he groped women at a clinic. (AP Photo / Matt Rourke)

Lilly Ross, left, shows her family photos to Andy Sandness during their meeting at the Mayo Clinic, Oct. 27, 2017, in Rochester, Minn. Sixteen months after transplant surgery gave Sandness the face that once belonged to Ross' husband, Calen "Rudy" Ross, he met the woman who had agreed to donate her high school sweetheart's face to a man who lived nearly a decade without one. (AP Photo / Charlie Neibergall)