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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, accompanied by GOP leaders, talk to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, prior to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. From left are, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., the Republican Policy Committee chairman; Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; and and Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn of Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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** FILE ** In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, Japanese Lt. Gen. Masayuki Hironaka, U.S. Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Herbert Carlisle and Royal Australian Air Force Air Commodore Anthony Grady speak to the media at Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam to kick off the beginning of the Cope North military exercises. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge)
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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, as senators go to the chamber for a vote to extend the Treasury's borrowing authority. Congress appears on track to send President Barack Obama must-do legislation to extend Treasury's borrowing authority without any concessions from the White House. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Student Irvin Cardenas, right, 22, shakes hands with a TeleBot, which combines telepresence and robotics, as he controls its movements with sensors placed around his body, during a demonstration at Florida International University, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014 in Miami. A group of students at FIU's Discovery Lab is testing their version of a RoboCop that will allow disabled police and military personnel to serve as patrol officers. The robot imitates all of the movements of the demonstrator, the student in this case, police or military officers in the future, who is wearing about 30 sensors on their shoulders, elbows, head and fingers. A joystick moves the robot forward, back and in circles. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Attorney Michael Kimerer, left, works on behalf of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, right, during a hearing on Feb. 10, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz. A prosecutor says evidence will show that Horne was in constant communication with Kathleen Winn, an aide who was running an independent group backing him in the 2010 election, and she passed along his suggestions about campaign ads attacking his Democratic rival to her campaign consultant. That "coordination" is illegal in Arizona, and Kreutzberg told a judge hearing a civil case brought against Horne and Winn that interviews and telephone, email and other records gathered during an FBI investigation will prove it. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, right, listens to opening arguments from Yavapai Deputy County Attorney Benjamin Kreutzberg, left, during a hearing on Feb. 10, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz. A prosecutor says evidence will show that Horne was in constant communication with Kathleen Winn, an aide who was running an independent group backing him in the 2010 election, and she passed along his suggestions about campaign ads attacking his Democratic rival to her campaign consultant. That "coordination" is illegal in Arizona, and Kreutzberg told a judge hearing a civil case brought against Horne and Winn that interviews and telephone, email and other records gathered during an FBI investigation will prove it. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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Kathleen Winn, listens to arguments from Yavapai Deputy County Attorney Benjamin Kreutzberg, during a hearing on Feb. 10, 2014 in Phoenix, Ariz. A prosecutor says evidence will show that Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne was in constant communication with Winn, an aide who was running an independent group backing him in the 2010 election, and she passed along his suggestions about campaign ads attacking his Democratic rival to her campaign consultant. That "coordination" is illegal in Arizona, and Kreutzberg told a judge hearing a civil case brought against Horne and Winn that interviews and telephone, email and other records gathered during an FBI investigation will prove it. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES
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This photo taken Feb. 12, 2014 shows Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, walking with Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress has sent President Barack Obama legislation restoring full cost-of-living pension increases for younger military retirees, a capitulation to veterans groups that opposed a modest cut when it was enacted late last year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2014 file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius greets visitors after a news conference on enrollment in affordable health coverage in Cleveland. The Obama administration says about 1 million Americans signed up for private insurance under the president’s health care law in January, extending a turnaround from early days when a dysfunctional website frustrated consumers. New numbers released Tuesday show nearly 3.3 million people signed up through Feb. 1. Although enrollment is gaining ground, the government’s initial target of 7 million by the end of March still seems like a stretch. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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Kansas state Rep. Larry Campbell, left, an Olathe Republican, confers with Mike Taylor, center, a lobbyist for the Unified Government of Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County, and Eric Smith, right, lobbyist for the League of Kansas Municipalities, after a committee meeting on gun-rights legislation, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Members of the Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee review proposed language for gun-rights legislation, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The committee members are ranking Democratic member Louis Ruiz, left, of Kansas City; Chairman Steve Brunk, center, a Wichita Republican, and Vice Chairman Travis Couture-Lovelady, right, a Palco Republican. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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Kansas state Rep. Jim Howell, left, a Derby Republican, confers with Patricia Stoneking, president of the Kansas State Rifle Association, during a House committee discussion of gun-rights legislation, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Howell is the main legislative advocate of the bill, and Stoneking's group is backing it. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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In this Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 photo, Pakistani rescue workers remove a body from the site of a grenade attack inside a movie theater in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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In this Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014 photo, plainclothes Pakistani police officers examine the site of a grenade attack inside a movie theater in Peshawar, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
