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IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN - Taylor Ellis, center, an openly gay student at Sheridan High School, hugs his mom, Lynn Tiley, as the Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin, right, looks on during a rally on Tuesday, March 18, 2014 outside the Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Supporters gathered at the rally to support Ellis who was denied an interview profile in his schools yearbook. (Mike Wintroath/AP Images for Human Rights Campaign)
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Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, speaks on the floor of the Senate during discussion of proposed amendments to a bill aimed at advancing a major liquefied natural gas project on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, speaks on the floor of the Senate during discussion of proposed amendments to a bill aimed at advancing a major liquefied natural gas project on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
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FILE - This Jan. 6, 2012 file photo shows Jolene Loetscher at her home in Sioux Falls, S.D. South Dakota lawmakers have passed bills creating three task forces this year instead of relying on the legislative executive board to set up summer studies after the session ends. One of the task forces is named "Jolene's Law Task Force," but the state has not yet passed Jolene's Law. The task force is named after Loetscher who has shared her story of sexual abuse as a child in an attempt to address the problem. (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton, File)
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Immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano leads the way through the metal turnstyle into the United States where she planned to ask for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Arellano and another 20 Mexican and Central American migrants crossed into the United States from the border city of Tijuana as part of a protest to demand an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and an end to deportations. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)
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Immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano waits to enter into the United States where she planned to ask for asylum in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, March 18, 2014. Arellano and another 20 Mexican and Central American migrants crossed into the United States from the border city of Tijuana as part of a protest to demand an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws and an end to deportations. (AP Photo/Alex Cossio)
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New York City fire department firefighter John Coombs, left, president of Vulcan Society, a black firefighters' group that had sued the city over racial discrimination and FDNY Lt. Michael Marshall, right, participate in a news conference in New York to announce a settlement of the 7-year-old case, Tuesday, March 18, 2014 in New York. About 1,500 minorities who took New York City Fire Department entrance exams in 1999 and 2002, that were found to be biased, will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million and Marshall will serve as a diversity advocate. (AP Photo/Warren Levinson)
