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Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, answers questions from the crowd about immigration reform, gay marriage and other topics on March 28, 2013, during a town-hall-style meeting at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. (Associated Press/The Daily Courier) ** FILE **
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Reince Priebus has been the target of criticism over a 2012 election post-mortem report that has riled Republican Party conservatives. (Associated Press)
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IN HOT SEAT: Reince Priebus has been the target of criticism over a 2012 election post-mortem report that has riled Republican Party conservatives. (Associated Press)
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Tracy Thompson of Washington, D.C. sings with a choir during the 35th Annual Easter Sunrise Service at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., Sunday, March 31, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Harper has matured since he joined the Nationals in 2011, but shortstop Ian Desmond says "he hasn't really changed the way he plays." (The Washington Times)
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The "Spend a Day With President Clinton Sweepstakes" is a new fundraiser sponsored by the Arkansas-based William J. Clinton Foundation. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama waves to the crowd as he watches the first half of the East Regional final in the NCAA men's college basketball tournament between Syracuse and Marquette, Saturday, March 30, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally)
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Participants in a meeting of former U.S. and Russian envoys in Moscow on Sunday, March 31, 2013, include (from left) Alexander Vershbow, Thomas Pickering, Jack Matlock, James Collins and John Beyrle, all former U.S. ambassadors to Russia or the Soviet Union; (on the right side of the table) Vladimir Lukin, former Russian ambassador to the U.S.; Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to U.S.; former Russian Ambassador to Poland Leonid Drachevsky; Sergei Rogov, director of the Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies; and Alexander Bessmertnykh, former Soviet ambassador to U.S.
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A bodyguard secures popular Egyptian television satirist Bassem Youssef, who has come to be known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, as he enters the Egyptian state prosecutor's office to face accusations of insulting Islam and the country's Islamist leader, in Cairo on Sunday, March 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, answers questions from the crowd about immigration reform, gay marriage and other topics on Thursday, March 28, 2013, during a town-hall-style meeting at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)