Politics

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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, listens to a reporter's question during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, May 23, 2013. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** President Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, May 21, 2013. (Associated Press)

Qatari foreign minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani talks during an Arab League committee emergency meeting on Syria at the league’s headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 23, 2013, ahead of an international peace conference to end the country’s civil war. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Police officers guard a flat as it is being searched at Greenwich in southeast London on May 23, 2013. A member of the armed forces was attacked and killed by two men on Wednesday at nearby Woolwich. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and House Oversight Committee chairman, holds up a document as he speaks to IRS official Lois Lerner on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, during the committee's hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny IRS gave to tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. Ms. Lerner told the committee she did nothing wrong and then invoked her constitutional right to not answer lawmakers' questions. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters as he leaves the weekly Democratic Caucus Lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 14, 2013. (Associated Press)