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In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
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Côte d'Ivoire Foreign Minister Marcel Amon Tanoh address a meeting in the U.N. Security Council after his country's election as one of five non-permanent members to the Security Council, Friday June 2, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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This May 24, 2017 photo shows retired General Electric workers Sue James, left, and Marilyn Harding during an interview at Harding's home in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Both women have lost a former GE working family member to cancer, and Harding survived bladder and breast cancer. A report conducted by researchers hired by the union that represents workers at the plant found exposure to more than 3,000 toxic chemicals from 1945 to 2000 and significant health problems among former employees. GE spokeswoman Kim Warburton said the company has seen the report but can't confirm the accuracy of the claims made in it. (AP photo/Rob Gillies)
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This May 24, 2017 photo shows the General Electric manufacturing facility in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. For more than a decade, several hundred retirees from this plant, which produced engines for trains and ships among other things, have claimed illnesses linked to exposure to toxins inside the factory. Now, they may soon get the compensation they have sought from the provincial government, following Ontario Labor Minister Kevin Flynn publicly calling on the worker's compensation board to "bring justice" to about 300 former workers whose health claims were previously denied. (AP Photo/Rob Gillies)
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Illustration on the sate of the European Union by Daniel Marsula/Tribune Content Agency
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Associated Press Nevada's unemployment rate is at 5 percent since Gov. Brian Sandoval took office.
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Professor Robert Pollin, a researcher from the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, gestures to a chart showing estimates of cost savings if a proposed single-payer health care bill was approved by the Legislature, during a news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017,in Sacramento, Calif. A report released by the California Nurses Association, done by Pollin and others, suggests that a 2.3 precent sales tax and a 2.3 precent gross receipts tax would help cover the additional costs to provide health care for all Californians. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, is congratulated by Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, after Guzzardi's bill to raise the minimum wage passed the House Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Professor Robert Pollin, a researcher from the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, gestures to a chart showing estimates of cost savings if a proposed single-payer health care bill was approved by the Legislature, during a news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017,in Sacramento, Calif. A report released by the California Nurses Association, done by Pollin and others, suggests that a 2.3 precent sales tax and a 2.3 precent gross receipts tax would help cover the additional costs to provide health care for all Californians. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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In this May 26, 2017 photo, Lisa Dammert and her husband, Patrick, pose at their home in Franklin, Tenn. As a thyroid cancer survivor battling nerve damage and other complications, Lisa was in such dire financial straits in 2014 that she and her husband let their health insurance lapse, putting them in a category with some 6 million Americans who have gone without coverage at times despite serious health problems. That group and millions of others who have had a gap in insurance could face higher charges under the Republican health care bill that recently passed the House. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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FILE - This Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, shows an EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector, a Mylan product, in Hendersonville, Texas. Some big pension funds are urging shareholders of EpiPen maker Mylan to reject several company directors and the compensation it gives top executives, including the nearly $100 million Chairman and former CEO Robert Coury received last year. The pension funds say that the compensation came during backlash over prices the drugmaker charged for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment. They also note that the company agreed to make “extraordinary and egregious” payments last year and over the next five years to Coury.(AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)
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FILE - In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump claps as he arrives in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Washington, followed by Vice President Mike Pence after the House pushed through a health care bill. Trump has called the House-passed health care bill a “great plan,” but a new poll finds that three out of four Americans do not believe it fulfills most of his promises. The poll out May 31, 2017, from the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation also found a growing share of the public concerned that the GOP’s American Health Care Act will have negative consequences for them personally by increasing their costs, making it harder to get and keep health insurance, or reducing quality. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Illustration on the federal government's sad history regarding the hiring of veterans by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers a speech during an election campaign of her Christian Democratic Union, CDU, and the Christian Social Union, CSU, in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, May 28, 2017. Merkel is urging European Union nations to stick together in the face of new uncertainty over the United States and other challenges. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)
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In this April 27, 2017 photo, Gretta Brundage measures pasta at Hoss's Steak and Sea House near Grove City, Pa. Gretta and Hoss's were paired through Intermediate Unit IV's Pre-Employment Transition Service/Community Based Vocational Training Program. (Renee Carey/The Herald via AP)
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Illinois state Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Springfield on Friday, May 26, 2017. What qualifies as Illinois Democrats' spring compromise on cost-cutting changes to the workers' compensation program won Senate approval Friday, leaving derisive Republicans without a major, previously agreed-to cost-saving concession. Raoul sponsored one measure requiring state Insurance Department-approved rates based on market need. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)
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Workers huddle in front of the scene of an accident at a construction site Friday, May 26, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. Officials say scaffolding and wet concrete apparently gave way at the building site in the San Francisco Bay Area, injuring over a dozen workers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Workers inspect the scene of an accident at a construction site Friday, May 26, 2017, in Oakland, Calif. Officials say scaffolding and wet concrete apparently gave way at a building site in the San Francisco Bay Area, injuring over a dozen workers. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
