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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, says President Obama's idea of a pay freeze is not a freeze because it allows for step increases for federal employees. (Associated Press)
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Rep. John D. Dingell, Michigan Democrat, said he agrees in principle with Republican objections to the FCC's Internet rules but that it's a matter for courts to decide. (Associated Press)
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl speaks to the congregation during Ash Wednesday Mass at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, on Rhode Island Avenue in northwest Washington, Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Space shuttle Discovery lands at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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An injured man prays at a hospital bed in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan killing many mourners and wounding more than 100 others, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
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Pakistani hospital staff help a person injured in a suicide attack, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan killing many mourners and wounding more than 100 others, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
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An injured boy rests at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Wednesday, March 9, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a funeral attended by anti-Taliban militiamen in northwest Pakistan killing many mourners and wounding more than 100 others, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)
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** FILE ** In this Dec. 13, 2010, file photo, rapper Ja Rule leaves court in New York. On Wednesday, March 9, 2011, a judge set a June 8 date for the platinum-selling rapper-actor's sentencing. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2010 file photo, rapper Ja Rule leaves court in New York. On Wednesday, March 9, 2011, a judge set a June 8 date for the platinum-selling rapper-actor's sentencing. The 35-year-old performer pleaded guilty in December to attempted weapon possession. He agreed to a two-year prison term. His lawyer says he'll spend the intervening months finishing a new album, "Renaissance Project," and taking care of tax matters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)
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Cleveland Cavaliers' Baron Davis (85) defends Golden State Warriors' Acie Law in the second quarter of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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Former Auburn quarterback Cam Newton throws for NFL football scouts during Auburn Pro Day, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in Auburn, Ala.(AP Photo/Todd J. Van Emst)
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Milwaukee Bucks' Andrew Bogut (6), of Australia, shoots and scores against Washington Wizards' JaVale McGee (34) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Sylvia Cachay, mother of Sylvie Cachay, speaks to the media outside State Supreme court as her husband Antonio Cachay, right, looks on, after a court appearance for Nicholas Brooks Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in New York. Brooks is accused of the Dec. 9, 2011 strangulation death of their daughter Sylvie Cachay in Manhattan's Soho House hotel. (AP Photo/ Louis Lanzano)
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Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani at a seasonal meeting of Iran's Experts Assembly in Tehran Tuesday, March 8, 2011. Mr. Rafsanjani lost his position as the head of the Assembly, a powerful clerical body charged with choosing or dismissing Iran's supreme leader. (Associated Press)
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Former French President Jacques Chirac, 78, leaves his office in Paris on Monday, March 7, 2011. Mr. Chirac's long-awaited trial on corruption charges stemming from his tenure as mayor of Paris was postponed on Tuesday until at least June. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Pakistani rescue workers remove victims from the site of a car bomb blast in Faisalabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, March 8, 2011. The explosion outside a gas station killed 20 people and wounded more than 100. (AP Photo/Khalil ur Rehman)
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Marleine Bastien (left) tries to comfort Claudine Magloire, a U.S. permanent resident, as she talks about her fiance, Wildrick Guerrier, in Miami last month. He was a Haitian man who suffered choleralike symptoms and died in his Caribbean homeland after the U.S. government deported him. He had participated in a hunger strike while detained in the U.S. and wrote to immigration attorneys that returning to Haiti amounted to a death sentence. (Associated Press)
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Prince William County, Va., Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert speaks at a news conference Monday about the arrest of Aaron Thomas, charged as the long-sought "East Coast rapist." (Associated Press)
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Mr. Thomas (left) is escorted from New Haven Superior Court after his arraignment in New Haven, Conn., on Monday. He is suspected in the sexual assault of at least 17 women from Virginia to Rhode Island since 1997. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this June 7, 2010 file photo, Charlie Sheen leaves the Pitkin County Courthouse with his attorney Richard Cummins in Aspen, Colo. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, file)