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Afghan officials investigate the scene of a suicide attack in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 14, 2011. The attacker posed as an army volunteer in order to strike an Afghan army recruitment center, which also was bombed in December. The blast killed at least 35 people, Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Fulad Hamdard)
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**FILE** President Obama speaks March 14, 2011, about revising the No Child Left Behind education law during an address at Kenmore Middle School in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)
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Texas agriculture official Todd Staples says more federal help to fight drugs is needed. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators wave signs and shout as unionized workers and supporters turned out Feb. 25 outside New Jersey's Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., to rally in support of Wisconsin public employees who at the time were locked in a battle over collective-bargaining rights. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Supporters of gay marriage rally Friday, March 11, 2011, in Annapolis, Md., before a vote by the Maryland House of Delegates on whether to give same-sex couples in Maryland the same marriage rights as heterosexuals. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)
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**FILE** State Rep. Jon Richards (center), Milwaukee Democrat, and other Assembly Democrats thank protesters in the gallery on March 10, 2011, after they were unable to stop the Republican majority from voting on, and passing, the budget repair bill at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Associated Press/Wisconsin State Journal, Michael P. King)
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Kirk Smalley and his wife, Laura Field, of Perkins, Okla., and Sirdeaner Walker from Springfield, Mass., listen at the Conference on Bullying Prevention in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. The couple's 11-year-old son, Ty Field, committed suicide after reportedly being bullied at school, and Ms. Walker's 11-year-old son, Joseph Walker-Hoover, also committed suicide, hanging himself from a third-floor banister after being picked on at school in spring 2009. (Associated Press)
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama speak at a conference on bullying prevention in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. "We all share a responsibility … to teach all children the Golden Rule: We should treat others the way we want to be treated," said Mr. Obama. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks at the opening of the Conference on Bullying Prevention in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, March, 10, 2011. The president said he was bullied as a child because of his big ears and his name. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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**FILE** Saudi Shi'ite protesters hold Saudi flags and portraits of unidentified Saudi Shi'ite prisoners during a demonstration in Qatif, Saudi Arabia, on March 9, 2011. Activists in Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite Muslim minority have issued Internet calls for a "Day of Rage." (Associated Press)
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Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers have retaken the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
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Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (left), Juneau Republican, and Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (right), Kenosha Democrat, exchange words during a Mar. 9 conference committee at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Associated Press)
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Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, left, R-Juneau, along with Rep. Scott Suder, third from left, R-Abbotsford, Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon, walks away after a conference committee was adjourned at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, March 9, 2011, where a stripped down budget bill was introduced. Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, right, D-Kenosha is at right. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
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Opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill, including C.J. Terrell demonstrate outside the senate parlor at the Wisconsin State Capitol Building as legislators inside voted to move forward on an amended version of the controversial bill Wednesday, March 9, 2011. The new bill removes the fiscal elements from the bill and strips public employees of collective bargaining rights. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
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Tears roll down the face of Liz Sanger of Madison, Wis., after the state Senate passed the budget repair bill following a meeting of a state Legislature conference committee at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Wednesday evening, March 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, M.P. King)
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Union supporter Stanley Minnick of Madison, Wis., protests outside of the the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., Thursday morning March 10, 2011, in opposition to the governor's proposed budget to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)
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Alejandro N. Mayorkas is director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. (Associated Press)
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A "mistake-free death penalty system" isn't possible, said Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, says President Obama's idea of a pay freeze is not a freeze because it allows for step increases for federal employees. (Associated Press)
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Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (second from left), North Dakota Republican, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (second from right), Massachusetts Democrat, leave the Senate chamber at the Capitol Wednesday after voting on the spending bill. Late Wednesday, the Senate rejected competing Republican and Democratic spending bills. (Associated Press)
