Social Issues

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Of her party's proposed $60 billion in budget cuts, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said, "We can't stop there." (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon D. Fox (center), Providence Democrat, speaks with fellow lawmakers during a session in the House chamber at the Statehouse in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. Mr. Fox, who is gay, is a co-sponsor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in the state. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

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** FILE ** This composite of artists' sketches provided by the Fairfax, Va., County Police Department shows the likeness of a suspect wanted for 12 sexual assaults or attempted sexual assaults between 1997 and 2009 in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut and Rhode Island. The sketches were made (from left) in 1998, 1999 and 2000. (AP Photo/Fairfax County Police, File)

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FILE - This undated file photo provided Nov. 17, 2010, by Goodman Media International, Inc., shows Donald Berwick, the official quarterbacking the overhaul of the nation's medical system, installed last year by President Barack Obama as a recess appointment, bypassing the Senate. Unable to repeal Obama's health care law, 42 Republican senators asked Obama in a letter released Thursday, March 3, 2011, to withdraw his nomination of Berwick as Medicare administrator. (AP Photo/Goodman Media International, Inc., File) NO SALES.

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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2011 file photo, new graduates fill out forms after attending a company's briefing session as they look for a job in Tokyo. The National Police Agency report published Thursday, March 3, 2011 says a total of 31,690 people committed suicide in 2010, fell from the year before but remained above 30,000 for the 13th year in a row. But the number of people citing grim job prospects in their suicide notes has more than doubled since 2007. About one-third of them were in their 20s, including new graduates seeking jobs. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa, FILE)

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A soldier from the Tunisia army gestures, as men from Bangladesh, who used to work in Libya but recently fled the unrest, walk with their belongings alongside a road, as they head to a refugee camp after crossing the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Friday, March 4, 2011. Bangladeshis were angry at their country's government for not doing more to get the refugees home Most of the Bangladeshis appear to have arrived in Tunisia penniless because their Libyan employers did not pay them or because they were robbed on the way.(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Refugees hold suitcases as they crowd the Libya-Tunisia border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Tuesday "the situation is reaching crisis point" at the Libya-Tunisia border where authorities say up to 75,000 people have fled Libya since Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia)

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A resident of Ghana displays a piece of paper mentioning his nationality as he waits with other refugees to enter Tunisia after fleeing Libya on the Libya-Tunisia border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Tuesday, March 1 , 2011.U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said Tuesday "the situation is reaching crisis point" at the Libya-Tunisia border where authorities say up to 75,000 people have fled Libya since Feb. 20. (AP Photo/Giorgos Moutafis)

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Displaced people play soccer backdropped by their refugee camp, after fleeing from unrest in Libya, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday March 3, 2011. The camp houses about 5,000 people, trying to handle the large numbers of expatriates crossing the border into Tunisia, carrying their belongings and horrific memories of the violence tearing apart Moammar Gadhafi's Libya. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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A displaced man looks out from his tent in a refugee camp for people fleeing from unrest in Libya, at the Tunisia-Libyan border, in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia, Thursday March 3, 2011. The camp was built to handle the large numbers of people crossing the border from Libya, and currently houses about 5,000 people, arriving in Tunisia carrying all their belongings. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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A foreigner carries his suitcase on the Libyan side of the Ras Adjir border before crossing into Tunisia Thursday, March 3, 2011. About 12,000 people have been crossing the Libyan-Tunisian border daily this week, and in total between 20,000 and 30,000 migrants were now in Ras Adjir, according to the Tunisian Red Crescent. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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President Obama extends a hand to his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon, at their joint news conference Thursday at the White House. Their remarks touched on issues of immigration, drug violence and fallout over the recent slaying of a U.S. customs agent in Mexico. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This undated file photo, provided Nov. 17, 2010 by Goodman Media International Inc., shows Donald Berwick, installed last year by President Barack Obama as a recess appointment, bypassing the Senate. Unable to repeal Obama's health care law, 42 Republican senators asked Obama in a letter released on Thursday, March 3, 2011, to withdraw his nomination of Berwick as Medicare administrator. (AP Photo/Goodman Media International, Inc., File

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International Criminal Court Prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo presents an overview of alleged crimes committed in Libya since Feb. 15 during a press conference at the ICC in The Hague on Thursday, March 3, 2011. Mr. Moreno-Ocampo said he will investigate Col. Moammar Gadhafi and his inner circle, including some of his sons, for possible crimes against humanity in the violent crackdown on anti-government protesters. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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A Pakistani man examines the blood-stained car of Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities affairs and the only Christian in the Cabinet, on Wednesday in Islamabad. Mr. Bhatti was fatally shot in the car near his mother's house. (Associated Press)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner (right), Ohio Republican, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Jaime Zapata, a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was fatally shot in February in an ambush. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

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Both supporters and opponents of Senate Bill 5 wait in line to enter the general Senate session Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio. The Senate passed the bill that would strip public employees of collective bargaining rights. (Associated Press)

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People from the Pakistani Christian community rally to condemn the death of Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities affairs, during a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, on Wednesday. Gunmen fatally shot Mr. Bhatti, the latest attack on a high-profile Pakistani figure threatened by Islamist militants for urging reform of harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. (Associated Press)

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A paramilitary soldier examines the damaged car of slain Pakistan's government minister for religious minorities Shahbaz Bhatti, outside the emergency ward of a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Gunmen shot and killed Mr. Bhatti Wednesday, the latest attack on a high-profile figure threatened by Muslim militants for urging reform of harsh blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)