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Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Jason Furman speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on Feb. 4, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Snow dots the ground at the site of a memorial to Australian Christopher Lane who was shot and killed in Duncan, Okla., in August of 2013, on the day of a hearing for three suspects in the case, in Duncan, Okla, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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This Feb. 3, 2014 photo shows, Jeffrey McCormick in Boston, a founding partner of the venture capital firm Saturn Partners who has launched his campaign for Massachusetts governor in 2014 as an independent. (AP Photo/Boston Herald, Christopher Evans) BOSTON GLOBE OUT. METRO BOSTON NEWSPAPER OUT. MAGS OUT. ONLINE OUT.
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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, file photo, former President Bill Clinton speaks at a CGI Clinton Global Initiative Latin America event at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. During Jay Leno’s two-decade tenure as NBC’s “Tonight” show host, the comic has cracked a total of 4,607 jokes at the expense of President Clinton. The Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs counted and catalogued nearly 44,000 jokes Leno made about politics and public affairs during his time at “Tonight,” which ends Thursday. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)
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File-This Jan. 14, 2014 file photo shows a bald eagle sits on a branch overlooking the Allegheny River on the Northside of Pittsburgh. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar,File)
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FILE - In this May 8, 2003, file photo, a northern spotted owl sits on a tree in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
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FILE - In this July 16, 2004, file photo, is a gray wolf at the Wildlife Science Center in Forest Lake, Minn. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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File-This Dec. 5, 2014 file photo shows a grizzly bear roams his pen, at Denver Zoo. In forty years, the U.S. government has spent billions of dollars trying to save some 1,500 species deemed endangered. House Republicans say that's translated into just 2 percent of protected species being recovered, and they want to overhaul the Endangered Species Act. Environmentalists and many Democrats credit the act with saving species from extinction. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)
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In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, displays his personal bank card as he leads a hearing on the recent incidents of mass credit card fraud in Washington. The hearing comes following the theft of consumers’ data at retailers such as Target Corp and Neiman Marcus during the holiday shopping season. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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John J. Mulligan, executive Vice President and Chief Financial Office of the Target Corporation, listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on data breaches and combating cybercrime . (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, listens to the Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, during the committee's hearing on data breaches and combating cybercrime. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky. returns to his Capitol Hill office in Washington, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, after speaking on the floor as the Farm Bill is considered. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - This Jan. 30, 2014 file photo shows a farmer taking advantage of dry weather to till a field in preparation for spring planting near England, Ark. Congress has given its final approval to a sweeping five-year farm bill that provides food for the needy and subsidies for farmers. Ending years of political battles, the Senate vote Tuesday sends the measure to President Barack Obama, who is expected to sign it. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) **FILE**
