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<body><div class="iw_mail" dir="ltr"><div class="iw_mail" dir="ltr"> <p>He does not have that authority. His job is to enforce laws passed by congress.</p>
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<hr size="1">-----Original Message-----<br>From: "Tom Hansen" <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>><br>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<a href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</a>><br>Date: 02/08/14 12:02<br>Subject: [Vision2020] Attorney general to extend recognition of same-sex marriage rights to all states<br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of CNN at:</div>
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<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/08/politics/holder-same-sex-marriage-rights/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/08/politics/holder-same-sex-marriage-rights/index.html</a></span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(CNN)</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-- Attorney General Eric Holder says he is set to extend the federal government's recognition of same-sex marriages even in the 34 states that don't consider it legal.</span> </div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">CNN has obtained excerpts of a speech Holder will deliver at the Human Rights Campaign's New York City gala event Saturday night.</span></div>
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<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Holder plans to announce that the Justice Department will issue a memo Monday that recognizes same-sex marriages "to the greatest extent possible under the law."</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div> </div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div>
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