West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, right, listens along with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, second from right, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, second from left, and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, left, during a meeting on health care during the 2009 Southern Governors Association meeting in Williamsburg, Va. , Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. AP Photo logo AP Photo 3 months ago

West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin III, right, listens along with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, second from right, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, second from left, and Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, left, during a meeting on health care during the 2009 Southern Governors Association meeting in Williamsburg, Va. , Monday, Aug. 24, 2009.

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  1. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist talks to the media after a meeting with Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, left, and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, after they discussed water sharing between Alabama, Georgia and Florida on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at Wynfield Estate in Montgomery, Ala. The Governors predict a water sharing-pact will be reached next year.
  2. Georgia's Governor Sonny Perdue, Dallah COO Ziad Hamzeh and Michael Williams, president of the Jetaire Group at the Dubai Air Show 2009 discuss the international launch of innovative product to protect aircraft fuel tanks from catastrophic explosion.
  3. MARIETTA, GA. - SEPTEMBER 22 : Calby Haught (L) of Austell, Georgia is consoled by volunteer Lisa Matheson at the American Red Cross emergency shelter in Marietta, Georgia on September 22, 2009. Haught escaped chest-level water that was consuming his mobile home in Austell and spent four hours in the water helping other flood victims. Flooding due to rain forced people out of their homes and closed hundreds of streets around metro Atlanta. The American Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at the Cobb Civic Center in Marietta for displaced flood victims. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared a State of Emergency for 17 Georgia countries including Cobb County.
  4. MARIETTA, GA. - SEPTEMBER 22 : Calby Haught of Austell, Georgia rests at the American Red Cross emergency shelter September 22, 2009 in Marietta, Georgia. Haught escaped chest-level water that was consuming his mobile home in Austell and spent four hours in the water helping other flood victims. Flooding due to rain forced people out of their homes and closed hundreds of streets around metro Atlanta. The American Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at the Cobb Civic Center in Marietta for displaced flood victims. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared a State of Emergency for 17 Georgia countries including Cobb County.
  5. MARIETTA, GA. - SEPTEMBER 22: Flood victims rest on cots in the Cobb County Civic Center September 22, 2009 in Marietta, Georgia. Flooding due to rain forced people out of their homes and closed hundreds of streets around metro Atlanta. The American Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at the Civic Center for displaced flood victims. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared a State of Emergency for 17 Georgia countries including Cobb County.
  6. MARIETTA, GA - SEPTEMBER 22: Nikisha Miller (left) of Austell relaxes on a cot as Johnnie Chavours of Lithia Springs plays with another flood victim's baby, Harleiy Jackson, seven-months-old, at the American Red Cross emergency shelter on September 22, 2009 in Marietta, Georgia. Chavours escaped flood waters with her children and befriended strangers in the shelter. Flooding due to rain forced people out of their homes and closed hundreds of streets around metro Atlanta. The American Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at the Cobb Civic Center in Marietta for displaced flood victims. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue declared a State of Emergency for 17 Georgia countries including Cobb County.
  7. State elected officials sign a proclamation declaring Nov. 18 "Sen. Robert C. Byrd day" in the West Virginia State Capitol rotunda in Charleston, W.Va. to celebrate Sen. Robert C. Byrd becoming the longest serving senator in United States congressional history on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. Shown are, seated left to right, Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, House Speaker Richard Thompson, Gov. Joe Manchin, Secretary of State Natalie Tennant and her daughter Delaney.
  8. Lt. M.W. Neal of the West Virginia capitol police force directs environmental protestors that were arrested for trespassing in the Governor's Reception Room at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. The protestors sat down in the early afternoon vowing to not leave until Governor Joe Manchin agreed to change the state's mountaintop removal mining policy and were arrested for refusing to leave when the office closed at 5PM.
  9. West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, right, speaks about blasting on the Coal River Mountain with environmental protesters Chuck Nelson, left, and Miranda Miller in the Governor's Reception Room at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. Thirteen residents signed a letter asking Manchin to declare a state of emergency and stop blasting they fear could compromise the massive Brushy Fork sludge dam.
  10. West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin speaks about blasting on the Coal River Mountain with environmental protesters in the Governor's Reception Room at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. Thirteen residents signed a letter asking Manchin to declare a state of emergency and stop blasting they fear could compromise the massive Brushy Fork sludge dam.
  11. Miranda Miller, facing camera, was one of seven environmental protestors that was arrested for trespassing in the Governor's Reception Room at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. Monday, Oct. 19, 2009. The protestors sat down in the early afternoon vowing to not leave until Governor Joe Manchin agreed to change the state's mountaintop removal mining policy and were arrested for refusing to leave when the office closed at 5PM.
  12. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., center, accompanied by Vermont Gov. James Douglas, R-Vt., left, and Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009.
  13. Alcorn State University president George E. Ross, right, and the other seven heads of the state's public universities listen as an update on the economics of the states' public universities is given by the state College Board commissioner, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 in Jackson, Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.
  14. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour holds a copy of his Fiscal Year 2011 budget during a news conference at the Sillers Building in Jackson, Miss. on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Barbour is calling for a sweeping reorganization of state government, including proposals to merge eight universities into five and reduce the number of school districts by a third.
  15. In this photograph provided by "Meet the Press," Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour appears on "Meet the Press'" Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009, at the NBC studios in Washington.
  16. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, hugs his wife, Maureen, right, as he talks to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, left, in McDonnell's suite as he waits for election returns in Richmond, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. McDonnell is running against Democrat Creigh Deeds.

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