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** FILE ** In this Sept. 7, 2011, file photo, John Brennan, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, speaks in Washington. U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al Qaeda improvised explosive device, Brennan said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

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Children's book author Maurice Sendak gives an interview at his home in Ridgefield, Conn., on Sept. 6, 2011. Mr. Sendak died May 8, 2012, in Danbury, Conn., at age 83. (Associated Press)

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"We must make certain they do not harm the economy by drowning small business lenders in a sea of red tape," says Rep. Spencer Bachus, Alabama Republican, of the health care law.

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Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer speaks to reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, after the court's hearing on Arizona's "show me your papers" immigration law. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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FILE - This file photo provided by Pepsi PRNewsfoto shows Pepsi products. The heirs of the man who helped develop the formula for Pepsi are suing the soda company over their right to share with the public documents detailing their father's invention. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, Joan Ritchie Silleck and Robert Ritchie also seek unspecified damages for "unjustified and improper acts that have interfered" with their rights regarding their father's documents. (AP Photo/Pepsi PRNewsfoto, File)

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In this June 4, 2009 file photo, Cuban coast guards, right, stop men from trying to migrate illegally to the U.S. on a foam raft near Havana's Malecon. Cuba's government appears on the verge of a momentous decision that could end a half-century of travel restrictions that make it difficult to leave the Communist-run island, even for vacation. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano, File)

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Rita Crundwell, former comptroller of Dixon, Ill., leaves federal court in Rockford, Ill., on Monday, May 7, 2012, after pleading not guilty at her arraignment to a single charge of wire fraud. (AP Photo/Robert Ray)

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Warrants for kidnapping have been issued for Adam Mayes in connection with the disappearance of a Tennessee woman and her three daughters. (AP Photo/Mississippi Department of Public Safety)

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**FILE** This photo released May 15, 2003, by the FBI shows Fahd al-Quso, who was charged as an al Qaeda member who helped plan the attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors in 2000. (Associated Press/FBI)

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Anders Behring Breivik (above right) and defense attorney Geir Lippestad look across the courtroom Friday at a life-size display dummy used to illustrate how and where the different victims at Utoeya Island were hit in the mass shooting July 22, 2011, for which Mr. Breivik is on trial in Oslo. He speaks with his other defense attorney Vibeke Hein Baera (top). The far-right fanatic, who has admitted to the massacre and a bombing in Oslo the same day that killed a total of 77, listened impassively Friday as as lawyers for the bereaved read emotional statements and showed pictures from the victims' lives alongside the coroner's autopsy reports. (NTB Scanpix via Associated Press)