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Vice President Mike Pence, right, shakes hands with an employee as he tours the DynaLab, Inc. facility, Saturday, April 1, 2017, in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF APRIL 1-2 AND THEREAFTER - In a March 22, 2017 photo, workers for Kruse Stained Glass of Hartington works to install windows at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Norfolk, Neb. Kenny and Kristi Kruse started Kruse Stained Glass after a specialist hired to complete a local restoration project couldn't complete the job. (Jake Wragge/The Norfolk Daily News via AP)
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Rep. Mark Formby, R-Picayune, right, gives thanks after being acknowledged by Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton, before the body in the House for his 25 years in the Legislature, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Formby, was confirmed Tuesday to Mississippi's three-member Workers Compensation Commission and will have to resign from his current elected post before taking office. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Angela Merkel, 63, Chancellor of Germany. She is also the leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Merkel has been described at various times as the de facto leader of the European Union, the most powerful woman in the world. (AP Photo)
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The battle over health care legislation has gotten bitter in the halls of the U.S. Capitol recently, with more unsettled moments likely to come. (Associated Press)
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This image provided by McDonald’s Corporation shows a Quarter Pounder burger. McDonald's says it will swap frozen beef patties for fresh ones in its Quarter Pounder burgers by sometime in 2018 at most of its U.S. locations. Employees will cook up the never-frozen beef on a grill when ordered. (Courtesy of McDonald’s Corporation via AP)
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International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' instructor Michael Garvey stands with IBEW apprentice Fred Ries in the industrial lab in Upper Chichester, Pa. The union recently unveiled its new lab where apprentices can learn the craft. (Kathleen E. Carey/Delaware County Daily Times via AP)
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FILE - In this March 20, 2017 file photo, Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza speaks to the City Club of Chicago in Chicago. A judge has ruled that Mendoza must pay lawmakers even though the state doesn't have a budget. Cook County Circuit Judge Rodolfo Garcia ruled in favor of Illinois legislators Thursday, March 23, 2017, citing a 2014 law passed after then-Gov. Pat Quinn withheld paychecks over pension reform. Mendoza said she planned to comply with the order. (Rich Hein/Sun Times via AP File)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, file photo, a sign marks a pickup point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber’s first report on employee diversity shows low numbers for women, especially in technology positions. Uber’s report doesn’t count drivers as employees. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, photo, an Uber representative helps travelers find rides with Uber at LaGuardia Airport in New York. Uber’s first report on employee diversity shows low numbers for women, especially in technology positions. Uber’s report doesn’t count drivers as employees. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Members of the European Union Baroque Orchestra rehearse at The National Centre for Early Music inside a converted medieval church, in York, England, in this photo dated Saturday March 18, 2017. The orchestra is currently based in England but with Britain about to enter into Brexit negotiations to leave the European Union, the orchestra is planning to relocate to Antwerp in Belgium.(AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
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Members of the European Union Baroque Orchestra rehearse at The National Centre for Early Music inside a converted medieval church, in York, England, in this photo dated Saturday March 18, 2017. The orchestra is currently based in England but with Britain about to enter into Brexit negotiations to leave the European Union, the orchestra is planning to relocate to Antwerp in Belgium. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland)
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President Trump's health care bill to repeal and replace Obamacare may have been scrapped, but Mr. Trump says he's serious about working with Democrats on health care legislation. “The president’s willing to listen to these individuals,”said White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Trump, flanked by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and Vice President Mike Pence, reveals his decision to recall the American Health Care Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Workers repair a church tin roof, as the communist-era Palace of Culture is seen behind in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, March 16, 2017.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
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House Freedom Caucus Chairman Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., center, whose conservative faction of the GOP bucked the Republican health care bill, heads to caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol before House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., announces that he is abruptly pulling their troubled health care bill off the House floor, in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Feb. 22, 2017, file photo photo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin listens at right as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting on the Federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump wants to tackle tax reform, but the loss on health care deals a blow to that effort. The loss on health care deprives Republicans of $1 trillion in tax cuts, and the GOP is just as divided on what steps to take. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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This Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, photo shows the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, displayed on a laptop computer screen in Washington. Millions of Americans will still need to navigate the current federal health care system in the coming months no matter what happens in Congress — whether the Republican plan to replace “Obamacare” is resurrected in some form after it was pulled on Friday, March 24, 2017, or if it never comes back. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Donald Trump about the health care overhaul bill, Friday, March 24, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. rump says he would be willing to reopen negotiations for a health care bill with Democrats if the Affordable Care Act fails.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Surrounded by lawmakers and law enforcement representatives, Gov. Phil Bryant, center, signs the "Back The Badge Act of 2017" that would increase penalties for felonies or misdemeanors against law-enforcement officers, firefighters or emergency medical technicians that suspects committed "with the specific intent to target an individual or group" because of their employment," Friday, March 24, 2017 at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. An overflow of law enforcement forced a relocation of the signing to the rotunda. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
