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Comedian Paul Rodriguez speaks to a crowd of Mitt Romney supporters outside a Romney campaign office in Las Vegas on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012. Romney officials argue that Hispanics, who suffer from a 9.9 percent unemployment rate, more than 2 points higher than the national rate, are naturally drawn to the GOP ticket. But some Romney supporters are pessimistic that Republicans can make inroads with a population that, many polls show, favors President Obama by a 2-1 margin. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
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Voters line up in the dark to beat the 7 p.m. deadline to cast their ballots at a polling station in Miami on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. House Republicans, still smarting from their poor showing among Hispanics in the presidential election, are planning a vote in late November 2012 on immigration legislation that would both expand visas for foreign science and technology students and make it easier for those with green cards to bring their immediate families to the United States. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Brian Conklin (far right), a regional campaign director for President Obama, briefs volunteers about registering new voters prior before they canvass a heavily Latino neighborhood on Friday, June 29, 2012, in Phoenix. Across the country, both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign event at El Palacio de los Jugos in Miami on Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. Puerto Ricans and Cubans are the largest Latin American communities in Florida, and their votes could decide the state in the 2012 presidential election. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Volunteers for President Obama's re-election campaign are briefed before they head out to register new voters in a heavily Latino neighborhood on Friday, June 29, 2012, in Phoenix. Across the country both political parties have been courting the Latino vote, the nation's fastest-growing minority group. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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In this photo released by the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS), U.N. Security Council delegation members Susan Rice (center), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Nestor Osorio (leaving helicopter) of Columbia arrive in Malau, Sudan, on Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Seventy northern Sudanese troops were killed and more than 120 are missing from an attack last week by southern Sudanese forces near the disputed region of Abyei, a Sudanese diplomat said Tuesday, while Ms. Rice called the incident a "serious violation" of the peace agreement. (AP Photo/UNMIS, Paul Banks)
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Susan Rice, U.N. ambassador to the United Nations, votes to support a Security Council resolution backing an Arab League call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, at the world body's headquarters on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The unusual weekend session came as Syrian forces pummeled the city of Homs with mortars and artillery in what activists are calling one of the bloodiest episodes of the uprising. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, leans near Syria's desk space as she takes a call before voting on a draft resolution backing an Arab League call for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, which was vetoed by Russia and China, during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council at the world body's headquarters on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. The unusual weekend session came as Syrian forces pummeled the city of Homs with mortars and artillery in what activists are calling one of the bloodiest episodes of the uprising. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
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A group of what is known as P-5 leaders share a lighter moment after posing for a photo at the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the world body's headquarters on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. From left are Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, and British Foreign Minister William Hague. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
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Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin (left) and Susan Rice (right), U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, surprise South African Ambassador Baso Sangqu (second from right) with "Happy Birthday" before members of the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday, April 21, 2012, to adopt the Syria Observer Mission Resolution, authorizing 300 observers to be sent to Syria. (AP Photo/David Karp)
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Libyan civilians celebrate the raiding of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound by hundreds of Libyans, the military and police in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. The recent attack in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans has sparked a backlash among frustrated Libyans against the heavily armed gunmen, including Islamic extremists, who run rampant in their cities. More than 10,000 people poured into a main boulevard of Benghazi, demanding that the militias disband as the public tries to do what Libya's weak central government has been unable to. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) and Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to United Nations, listen as President Obama addresses the 67th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the world body's headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses a luncheon gathering of The Economic Club of New York, in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012. Bernanke on Tuesday urged Congress and the Obama administration to strike a budget deal to avert tax increases and spending cuts that could trigger a recession next year. Without a deal, the measures known as the "fiscal cliff" will take effect in January. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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In this Oct. 25, 2012, file photo, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during a news conference with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, not seen, at the Pentagon, in Washington. President Barack Obama and Congress have just a few weeks to figure out how to avert the automatic cuts to defense and domestic programs totaling $110 billion next year. Those reductions are part of the so-called fiscal cliff of expiring Bush-era tax cuts and the across-the-board cuts that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has warned would be devastating to the military. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks about the elections and the unfinished business of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. The first post-election test of wills could start next week when Congress returns from its election recess to deal with unfinished business ó including a looming "fiscal cliff" of $400 billion in higher taxes and $100 billion in automatic cuts in military and domestic spending to take effect in January if Congress doesn't head them off. Economists warn that the combination could plunge the nation back into a recession. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In a Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the election night party at McCormick Place, in Chicago. President Barack Obama will make his first public comments Friday, Nov. 9, 2012 since the victory speech after his re-election, using his speech to set the tone for upcoming tense talks with congressional Republicans on avoiding the so-called "fiscal cliff" ó a combination of deep spending cuts and the expiration of Bush-era tax cuts that will take effect Jan. 1 and threaten to pull the country back into recession. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
