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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and Republican candidate for governor, is introduced to supporters at a local restaurant Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, in Waco, Texas. (AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald, Rod Aydelotte)
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File - In the Feb. 12, 2014 file photo, Victor Holmes, left, and partner Mark Phariss, right, arrive at the U.S. Federal Courthouse, in San Antonio, where a federal judge is expected to hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Texas' ban on same-sex marriage. Republican attorneys general across the U.S. are fighting court rebukes of same-sex marriage bans in their states. But Texas' Greg Abbott is doing so against extraordinary personal ties: Phariss, one of the gay men challenging the law here is an old friend. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 1012 file photo, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and other law enforcement jurisdictions drive the roads near near Bisbee, Ariz. New Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is reviewing the department’s use of force policies, a Homeland Security official said Friday. The official said Johnson has been reviewing the rules about when agents along the border can use their guns since he took office in December. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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Surrounded by supporters of the Venezuela opposition who wear masks, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, center, speaks to the media in front of the El Arepazo 2 restaurant on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 in Doral, Fla. Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott are calling for sanctions against Venezuela, where opponents of President Nicolas Maduro are staging countrywide protests. Both politicians spoke at a press conference in Doral on Friday that drew hundreds of Venezuelans. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
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FILE - In this Oct. 2, 1012 file photo, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and other law enforcement jurisdictions drive the roads near near Bisbee, Ariz. New Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is reviewing the department’s use of force policies, a Homeland Security official said Friday. The official said Johnson has been reviewing the rules about when agents along the border can use their guns since he took office in December. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
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In this photo taken on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, broken tree limbs hang over the road and branches litter the shoulders of US Route 17A near Georgetown, S.C. The state Department of Transportation has more than 300 contract crews out clearing debris from highways around the state. A state emergency official said Friday, Feb. 28, 2014 that, while figures are still being compiled, damage from the storm will likely qualify sections of the state for designation as a federal disaster area - the first such designation in almost a decade. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site, in Austin, Texas. In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots _ the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 photo, a voter shows his photo identification to an election official at an early voting polling site, in Austin, Texas. In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots _ the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014 photo, an election official checks a voter's photo identification at an early voting polling site, in Austin, Texas. In elections that begin next week, voters in 10 states will be required to present photo identification before casting ballots _ the first major test of voter ID laws after years of legal challenges arguing that the measures are designed to suppress voting. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
