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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes
INCOME TAXES
 
Effective January 1, 2017, we adopted ASU 2016-09 which requires the tax effects related to employee share-based payments to be recorded to income tax expense, thus increasing the volatility in our effective tax rate.

Our effective tax rate was 30 percent and 33 percent for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively.  The decrease in the tax rate was primarily due to a $7 million income tax benefit on stock based compensation in the first quarter of 2017.