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Charles Ramsey, president of the West Contra Costa school board, walks out of a boys bathroom where police were investigating reports of a brutal assault of a transgender teen at the Hercules Middle-High School campus in Hercules, Calif., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The 15-year-old student told officers he was leaving a boy's bathroom at Hercules High School on Monday when three teenage boys pushed him inside a handicapped stall and physically and sexually assaulted him, Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Charles Ramsey, president of the West Contra Costa school board, stands outside of the boys bathroom where police were investigating reports of a brutal assault of a transgender teen at the Hercules Middle-High School campus in Hercules, Calif., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The 15-year-old student told officers he was leaving a boy's bathroom at Hercules High School on Monday when three teenage boys pushed him inside a handicapped stall and physically and sexually assaulted him, Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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A disabled toilet stall is shown in the boys bathroom where police were investigating reports of a brutal assault of a transgender teen at the Hercules Middle-High School campus in Hercules, Calif., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The 15-year-old student told officers he was leaving a boy's bathroom at Hercules High School on Monday when three teenage boys pushed him inside a handicapped stall and physically and sexually assaulted him, Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Adam Taylor, executive director of kindergarten through 12th grade school operations for West Contra Costa Unified School District, left, stands next to a security officer in front of the health clinic at the Hercules Middle-High School campus in Hercules, Calif., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Police on Tuesday were investigating reports of a brutal assault of a transgender teen who was using a high school bathroom in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb. The 15-year-old student told officers he was leaving a boy's bathroom at Hercules High School on Monday when three teenage boys pushed him inside a handicapped stall and physically and sexually assaulted him, Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Arkansas House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, listens to arguments for and against a proposal to reauthorize funding for the "private option" program that was approved last year as an alternative to expanding Medicaid under the federal health law at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The measure, supported by Carter, passed in the House Tuesday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, listens to discussion of Arkansas' plan that uses Medicaid funds to buy private insurance for the poor on the House floor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The measure, opposed by Westerman, passed in the House Tuesday. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
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FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2013, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama’s budget pushes the HHS budget over $1 trillion for the first time, reflecting an aging population adding to the Medicare rolls, as well as expanded coverage for younger people through the new health law. HHS runs Medicare, Medicaid and the insurance expansion in Obama's health overhaul law, which together provide coverage for about 1 in 3 Americans. Its growing prominence in the federal budget reflects the rise of benefit programs, which now account for more than two-thirds of all government spending. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Deputy Administrator Thomas M. Harrigan, left, and U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado John Walsh, are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Oversight subcommittee on Government Operations hearing on the Obama Administration’s policies on marijuana. In an election year that could tip the balance of power in Congress, some Republicans have accused the White House of cherry-picking which federal laws to enforce. The administration has said it continues to pursue dangerous criminals, but Obama himself last month in an interview declared marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol and contrasted it with “harder drugs” including cocaine and methamphetamine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Deputy Administrator Thomas M. Harrigan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2014, before the House Oversight subcommittee on Government Operations hearing on the Obama Administration’s policies on marijuana. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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FILE - In this Sept. 12, 2011 file photo, Alan Simpson, speaks in Washington, D.C. A group of Republicans have come out in support of legalizing gay marriage in Utah and Oklahoma, arguing that allowing same-sex unions is consistent with the Western conservative values of freedom and liberty once championed by Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. The group that includes former Sen. Alan Simpson of Wyoming and former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas plans to file a friend of the court brief Tuesday, March 4, 2014, to a federal appeals court in Denver that is reviewing same-sex marriage bans in Utah and Oklahoma, said Denver attorney Sean Gallagher, whose firm wrote the 30-page argument. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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A sign for the Hercules Middle/High School campus is shown in Hercules, Calif., Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Police on Tuesday were investigating reports of a brutal assault of a transgender teen. The 15-year-old student told officers that he was leaving a boy's bathroom at the school on Monday when three teenage boys pushed him inside a handicapped stall and physically and sexually assaulted him, Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten said. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
