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Retiring Randy Schmid, (43-years), seated, at the AP office in Washington,Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. Standing, from left are, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Lauren Neergaard, Doug Birch, Seth Borenstein, Sam Hananel, and Barry Schweid. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FILE - In this May 9, 2013 file photo, Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, attends a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Acquario is among hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states who get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Brian Bakst, St. Paul, Minn., correspondent.

Cars from a Metro-North passenger train are scattered after the train derailed in the Bronx neighborhood of New York, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. The Fire Department of New York says there are "multiple injuries" in the train derailment, and 130 firefighters are on the scene. Metropolitan Transportation Authority police say the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station. (AP Photo/Edwin Valero)

Amy Adams, North Carolina campaign coordinator with Appalachian Voices, shows her hand covered with wet coal ash from the Dan River swirling in the background as state and federal environmental officials continued their investigations of a spill of coal ash into the river in Danville, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. Duke Energy estimates that up to 82,000 tons of ash has been released from a break in a 48-inch storm water pipe at the Dan River Power Plant in Eden N.C. on Sunday. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

In this photo taken Monday Aug. 5, 2013 Associated Press Newsman Steve Peoples is seen in Wolfeboro, N.H.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)