Politics

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Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, left, speaks with Sen. Bart Hester, R-Cave Springs, in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The Senate voted Thursday to continue the state's compromise Medicaid expansion plan. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Sen. Jane English, R-North Little Rock, sits at her desk in the Senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. The Senate voted to reauthorize funding for the "private option" program that uses federal Medicaid funds to purchase private insurance for low-income residents. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Arkansas House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, speaks to another House member during a recess in the House chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. A compromise plan for Medicaid expansion in Arkansas remained stalled in the House Thursday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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In this Feb. 19, 2014, photo Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right, shakes hands with President Barack Obama during the North American Leaders Summit in Toluca, Mexico. Harper is ready for the icy cold one Obama promised him. With their countries facing off in a pair of Olympic hockey games this week, more than just the puck was on the line. The leaders wagered a case of beer on each game. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean Kilpatrick )

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House Appropriations Committee chairman Herb Frierson, of Poplarville, left, confers with fellow Republicans Medicaid Committee chairman Bobby Howell of Kilmichael, center, and Public Health and Human Services Committee chairman Toby Baker of Hattiesburg, during Medicaid funding debate in House Chambers at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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An anti-government protester that suffered a gunshot wound is being helped by fellow protesters and medical workers at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Fearing that a call for a truce was a ruse, protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine's embattled capital. Government snipers shot back and the almost medieval melee that ensued left scores of people dead. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

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Anti-government protesters man a barricade at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Fearing that a call for a truce was a ruse, protesters tossed firebombs and advanced upon police lines Thursday in Ukraine's embattled capital. Government snipers shot back and the almost medieval melee that ensued left scores of people dead. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

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An injured anti-government protester is carried away to get treatment on the outskirts of Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Fierce clashes between police and protesters, some including gunfire, shattered a brief truce in Ukraine's besieged capital Thursday, killing numerous people. The deaths came in a new eruption of violence just hours after the country's embattled president and the opposition leaders demanding his resignation called for a truce and negotiations to try to resolve Ukraine's political crisis. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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An anti-government protester carries a shield as he runs on the outskirts of Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Fierce clashes between police and protesters, some including gunfire, shattered a brief truce in Ukraine's besieged capital Thursday, killing numerous people. The deaths came in a new eruption of violence just hours after the country's embattled president and the opposition leaders demanding his resignation called for a truce and negotiations to try to resolve Ukraine's political crisis. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

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Activists pay respects to protesters who were killed in clashes with police in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Fierce clashes between police and protesters, some including gunfire, shattered a brief truce in Ukraine's besieged capital Thursday, killing numerous people. The deaths came in a new eruption of violence just hours after the country's embattled president and the opposition leaders demanding his resignation called for a truce and negotiations to try to resolve Ukraine's political crisis. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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An anti-government protester mans a barricade at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Ukraine's protest leaders and the president they aim to oust called a truce Wednesday, just hours after the military raised fears of a widespread crackdown with a vow to defeat "terrorists" responsible for seizing weapons and burning down buildings. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

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Anti-government protesters clash with riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, in Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Ukraine's protest leaders and the president they aim to oust called a truce Wednesday, just hours after the military raised fears of a widespread crackdown with a vow to defeat "terrorists" responsible for seizing weapons and burning down buildings. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

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An anti-government protester guards the barricade in front of riot police in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, in Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Ukraine's protest leaders and the president they aim to oust called a truce Wednesday, just hours after the military raised fears of a widespread crackdown with a vow to defeat "terrorists" responsible for seizing weapons and burning down buildings. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)