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FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2017 file photo, Mike Flynn arrives for a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Targeted in widening investigations of his foreign entanglements, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is at odds with his former Turkish client over two unusual payments totaling $80,000 that Flynn’s firm sent back last year to the client. The disagreement points to inconsistencies in Flynn’s accounts to the U.S. government about his work for foreign interests.(AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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In this March 9, 2010, file photo, a tanker truck passes an oil refinery in Richmond, Calif. A measure that would impose a hefty tax on carbon pollution and use much of the revenue to give money back to taxpayers is scheduled for a hearing in a California state Senate committee Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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FILE - In this March 28, 2017, file photo, a dump truck hauls coal at Contura Energy's Eagle Butte Mine near Gillette, Wyo. Four U.S. states filed a lawsuit Tuesday, May 9, 2017, over President Donald Trump's decision to restart the sale of coal leases on federal lands, saying the Obama-era block of the leasing program was reversed without studying what's best for the environment and for taxpayers. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)
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Illustration on phasing out ethanol content in U.S. gasoline by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Illustration on fixing health care by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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FILE - In this July 10, 2008, file photo, a bicyclist travels along the east bank of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore. Oregon lawmakers are rolling out a 10-year transportation package that would raise consumer prices at the gas pump and when buying a new car and impose highway tolls for the first time along with a 5 percent tax on new bicycles and higher registration fees for fuel-efficient cars. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE- In this May 6, 2015 file photo, attendant James Lewis pumps gas at a station in Portland, Ore. Oregon lawmakers are rolling out a 10-year transportation package that would raise consumer prices at the gas pump and when buying a new car and impose highway tolls for the first time along with a 5 percent tax on new bicycles and higher registration fees for fuel-efficient cars. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE- In this July 28, 2015, file photo a line of electric cars and newly installed charging stations are seen in front of the Portland General Electric headquarters building in Portland, Ore. Oregon lawmakers are rolling out a 10-year transportation package that would raise consumer prices at the gas pump and when buying a new car and impose highway tolls for the first time along with a 5 percent tax on new bicycles and higher registration fees for fuel-efficient cars. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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In this May 8, 2017, photo, the city council meets in downtown Twin Falls, Idaho. The town, that's become a hotbed of refugee support and opposition, has opted to take a softer stance in affirming its role as a welcoming city rather than adopt policies defying U.S. immigration officials. The seven-member Twin Falls City Council approved on Monday a declaration of a "neighborly community" after spending weeks listening to mixed public testimony. (Drew Nash/The Times-News via AP)
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FIlE- In this Aug. 26, 2011, file photo, James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, left, and Allan H. Meltzer, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, talk during a lunch break of the Economic Policy Symposium at Jackson Hole in Moran, Wyo. Meltzer, a distinguished economist and one of the country's leading experts on the Federal Reserve, has died on Monday, May 8, 2017. He was 89. Carnegie Mellon University announced is death Tuesday. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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Revenue Secretary Kimberly Robinson, center, talks with state Reps. Jim Morris, R-Oil City, left, and Chris Broadwater, R-Hammond, right, ahead of a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on tax proposals, Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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In this photo provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Robert Powelson, a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. President Donald Trump has Powelson, a veteran Pennsylvania regulator to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC. (Donald Constance/Commonwealth of Pennsylvania via AP)
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People look at the storefront window of a luxury store at the Manzana de Gomez Kempinski five-star hotel in Havana, Cuba, Monday, May 8, 2017. The hotel is earning positive early reviews but many tourists say they find the luxury mall alongside it to be repulsive. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Illustration on the prohibitive costs of higher education by Donna grethen/Tribune Content Agency
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Roxanne White, right, a member of the Yakama Nation, sings during a protest inside a Chase bank branch Monday, May 8, 2017, in Seattle. Climate activists opposed to oil pipeline projects demonstrated at several JPMorgan Chase bank locations in Seattle on Monday, calling on the bank not to do business with TransCanada, the company pushing for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Roxanne White, right, a member of the Yakama Nation, sings during a protest inside a Chase bank branch Monday, May 8, 2017, in Seattle. Climate activists opposed to oil pipeline projects demonstrated at several JPMorgan Chase bank locations in Seattle on Monday, calling on the bank not to do business with TransCanada, the company pushing for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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A security officer and a bank employee stand at an entrance to prevent further entry as demonstrators behind them hold up a sign during a protest inside a downtown Chase bank branch Monday, May 8, 2017, in Seattle. Climate activists opposed to oil pipeline projects demonstrated at several JPMorgan Chase bank locations in Seattle on Monday, calling on the bank not to do business with TransCanada, the company pushing for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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As Seattle City Council member Mike O'Brien stands with protesters outside, second left, as demonstrators inside a Chase bank branch try to block off the entrance to the bank Monday, May 8, 2017, in Seattle. Climate activists opposed to oil pipeline projects demonstrated at several JPMorgan Chase bank locations in Seattle on Monday, calling on the bank not to do business with TransCanada, the company pushing for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Protesters Ramona Lawson, right, tries to keep a customer from a teller window during a demonstration inside a Chase bank branch Monday, May 8, 2017, in Seattle. Lawson was one of three protesters who later declined to leave the bank and were arrested. Climate activists opposed to oil pipeline projects demonstrated at several JPMorgan Chase bank locations in Seattle on Monday, calling on the bank not to do business with TransCanada, the company pushing for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Protester Peter Weston, center, is searched by police after being arrested for declining to leave a Chase bank branch where he had been demonstrating Monday, May 8, 2017, in Seattle. Climate activists opposed to oil pipeline projects demonstrated at several JPMorgan Chase bank locations in Seattle on Monday, calling on the bank not to do business with TransCanada, the company pushing for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
