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United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, left, and United Airlines President Scott Kirby, prepare to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, to testify before a House Transportation Committee oversight hearing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, Defense attorneys Andy Savage, left, Don McCune, and Miller Shealy, right, sit around former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager at theCharleston County court in Charleston, S.C. Slager is pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed during a 2015 traffic stop. A copy of the plea agreement obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday, May 2, 2017, also shows state prosecutors are dropping a pending murder charge in the death of Walter Scott. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, Pool, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, right, walks from the Charleston County Courthouse under the protection of the Charleston County Sheriff's Department after a mistrial was declared for his trial in Charleston, S.C. Slager is pleading guilty to violating the civil rights of an unarmed black motorist he shot and killed during a 2015 traffic stop. A copy of the plea agreement obtained by The Associated Press Tuesday, May 2, 2017, also shows state prosecutors are dropping a pending murder charge against Slager. (AP Photo/Mic Smith, File)
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United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, to testify before a House Transportation Committee oversight hearing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz, left, prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, before a House Transportation Committee oversight hearing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **
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Seattle Police officers surround a man as they make an arrest, Monday, May 1, 2017, during a May Day protest in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Seattle Police officers move in to make an arrest, Monday, May 1, 2017, during a May Day protest in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Seattle Police officers make an arrest, Monday, May 1, 2017, during a May Day protest in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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FILE- In this March 8, 2107, file photo, Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a town hall meeting in Yarmouth, Maine. LePage will be in Washington on Tuesday, May 2, to testify at a House subcommittee on federal lands hearing on the use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to create monuments. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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Ken Forkish of Ken's Artisan Bakery in Portland arrives at the James Beard Awards on Monday, May 1, 2017, in Chicago. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune via AP)
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Hogan vetoes bill requiring employers to provide paid sick leave in Maryland. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan speaks in Oxford, Miss. Kagan is scheduled to visit Indianapolis Monday, May 1, 2017, for a speech before an audience of lawyers and federal judges. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Illustration on the EPA's threats to private property rights by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Illustration on ex-presidents profiting from their tenure by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE- In this July 18, 2016, file photo, David Clarke, Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wis., speaks during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. A jury on Monday, May 1, 2017, recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate who went without water for seven days. The jail is overseen by Clarke, but the inquest did not target him. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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In this July 13, 2016, photo, Brody Stephens poses by his Golden State-themed bed with new Stephen Curry basketball shoes at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. Stephens, an 8-year-old Indiana boy who garnered friendships with his basketball and football heroes, has died after a years-long fight with leukemia. Brody Stephens' father told the Indianapolis Star that his son died Saturday, April 29, 2017, of a viral complication. (Jenna Watson/The Indianapolis Star via AP)
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This photo shows the intersection of Baron and Shepherd Lane on Monday, May 1, 2017, near where the shooting of 15 year-old Jordan Edwards by a police officer happened in Balch Springs, Texas on Saturday. A suburban Dallas police chief said Monday that his department wrongly described why an officer fired into a moving vehicle and killed Edwards, after an attorney for the boy’s family said officers were trying to “justify the unjustifiable.” (Vernon Bryant /The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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Odell Edwards wipes away tears as he sits with his wife, Charmaine Edwards, listening to their attorney Lee Merritt talking about the death of their son, Jordan Edwards, in a police shooting Saturday in Balch Springs, Texas, in Merritt's law office in Dallas, Monday, May 1, 2017. A suburban Dallas police chief said Monday that his department wrongly described why an officer fired into a moving vehicle and killed Jordan Edwards, after an attorney for the boy’s family said officers were trying to “justify the unjustifiable.” (Guy Reynolds/The Dallas Morning News via AP)
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A group of protesters rally during a sit-in at the Texas Department of Insurance building in Austin, Texas on Monday, May 1, 2017. The protesters, opposing proposed Texas legislation that would compel police to enforce federal immigration laws, vow to occupy the building until Republican Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes the bill. (AP Photo/Meredith Hoffman)