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"The corruption of the consultant culture dishonors America's values by honoring greed over philosophy. It cheapens the sacrifice made by good men and women who serve in public office to protect the culture of our nation."
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Gov. Steve Beshear speaks during a press conference in Frankfort, Ky., on May 9, 2013. Beshear announced that he had decided to expand Medicaid, the government health care program, to an additional 300,000 Kentucky residents. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Job seekers wait in line to attend a job fair in Tacoma, Wash., April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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This combination shows the signatures of Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew from a Sept. 21, 2011, memo posted on the White House website when he was Office of Management and Budget director, top, and as Treasury Secretary on the 2013 annual report for the Financial Stability Oversight Council, bottom. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** Migrants ride on top of a northbound train toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Juchitan in southern Mexico on Monday, April 29, 2013. Migrants crossing Mexico to get to the U.S. have increasingly become targets of criminal gangs who kidnap them to obtain ransom money. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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**FILE** Dr. Robert Stern, right, and Chris Nowinski, left, confer before answering a reporter's question at the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy news conference about the finding of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in the brain of former NFL player Dave Duerson in Boston, Monday morning, May 2, 2011. Duerson committed suicide in February. Dr. Robert Cantu, MD, is at center. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)