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** FILE ** Virginia Attorney General-elect Mark Herring smiles during a news conference at the Capitol in Richmond, Va., in this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo. Herring has concluded that the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional and he will no longer defend it in federal lawsuits challenging it, his office said Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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FILE - In this March 23, 2010, file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, watch as President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in Washington. A closely watched survey says the nation’s uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as the major coverage expansion under Obama’s health care law got underway. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that the uninsured rate for U.S. adults dropped by 1.2 percentage points in January, to 16.1 percent. The rate declined across major groups. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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People gather at the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department to halt the punishment. Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
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An unidentified woman carries a candle as she walks to the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department to halt the punishment. Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
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An unidentified person stands at the entrance to the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department to halt the punishment. Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
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People pray at the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department to halt the punishment. Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
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America Tamayo Sotelo is surrounded by media as she speaks on the phone to relatives in Texas, at the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals Wednesday night for Mexican national Edgar Tamayo, clearing the way for the Texas death row inmate to be executed for the slaying of a Houston police officer 20 years ago. Secretary of State John Kerry previously asked Texas to delay Tamayo's punishment, saying it "could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries." The State Department repeated that stance Wednesday. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
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Edelmira Arias is comforted while weeping at the home of the parents of Texas death-row inmate Edgar Tamayo, her cousin, in Miacatlan, Mexico, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals Wednesday night for Mexican national Edgar Tamayo, clearing the way for the Texas death row inmate to be executed for the slaying of a Houston police officer 20 years ago. Secretary of State John Kerry previously asked Texas to delay Tamayo's punishment, saying it "could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries." The State Department repeated that stance Wednesday. (AP Photo/Tony Rivera)
