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** FILE ** Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner with Pope Francis in this Twitter photo posted on Kirchner's social media page.

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Job seekers attend a health care job fair on Thursday, March 14, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

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**FILE** House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi addresses an audience in Boston during an event held to mark the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act on March 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Kevin Coyne of Washington holds flags in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on March 27, 2013. The U.S. Supreme Court, in the second day of gay marriage cases, turned to a constitutional challenge to the federal law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This Jan. 23, 2009, file photo shows the characters Aladdin, Jasmine and Abu from the film, "Aladdin," on the "It's A Small World" ride, at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. An attorney says a disabled man, Jose Martinez, was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the “It's A Small World” ride broke in 2009, stranding him for half an hour while the theme song played continuously. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

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Wyatt Tan (left) and Mark Nomadiou, both of New York City, kiss in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, before the start of a court hearing on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). In the second of back-to-back gay-marriage cases, the high court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)