Social Issues

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Bahraini women wait outside a hospital in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, where victims of the confrontation between anti-government protesters and riot police were being treated. Armed patrols prowled neighborhoods and tanks appeared in the streets for the first time after riot police with tear gas and clubs drove protesters from a main square where they had demanded sweeping political change.(AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Supporters of the Hawaii Civil Unions Bill celebrate the state Senate's 18-5 vote to approve civil unions at the Hawaiian state Capitol on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, in Honolulu. Gov. Neil Abercrombie has said he will sign the legislation into law. (AP Photo/Eugene Tanner)

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**FILE** House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, takes part in a Feb. 2 hearing of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on Capitol Hill to discuss the need to create jobs. (Associated Press)

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Rep. Anna G. Eshoo

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent Jaime Zapata was mortally wounded Feb. 15 during an attack near San Luis Potosi, Mexico. (Courtesy of ICE officials)

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Police prevent Yemeni government supporters from entering Sanaa University, where anti-government protestors are gathered, in Sanaa, Yemen, on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. The government sent 2,000 policemen into the streets of the capital to try to put down days of protests against the president of 32 years, a key U.S. ally in battling al Qaeda. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew appears before the Senate Budget Committee to defend President Obama's fiscal year 2012 budget as Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill square off on federal spending, in Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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"We're waiting for presidential leadership," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday. "Entitlement reform will not be done except on a bipartisan basis with presidential leadership." (Associated Press)

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"In the last two years, under President Obama, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs," House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said Tuesday as the GOP outlined proposed budget cuts. "If some of those jobs are lost, so be it. We're broke." (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama awards civil rights activist Sylvia Mendez the 2010 Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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**FILE** Veterans Kori Cioca (left), 25, of Wilmington, Ohio, and Panayiota Bertzikis, 29, of Somerville, Mass., who were assaulted and raped while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, meet at their attorney's office in Washington on Feb. 13, 2011. They are plaintiffs among about a dozen women and at least one man, who are suing Pentagon officials, seeking change in the military's handling of rape and sexual assault cases. (Associated Press)

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In this , Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011 photo Andrei, a 2-year-old HIV-positive boy in the Ukrainian city of Cherkassy hides his face in his hands as his mother Yelena, 33 embraces him in Cherkassy, Ukraine. Ukraine has Europe's worst AIDS epidemic _ and it risks getting much worse because of drug supply cuts blamed on government corruption and official harassment of AIDS groups and HIV-infected drug users, health experts warn. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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President Obama makes a statement about his budget during a press conference at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Bahraini women demonstrate on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in the village of Duraz, Bahrain, outside the capital of Manama. Demonstrations broke out nationwide in response to calls on social media sites for major anti-government protests and were dispersed by riot police firing tear gas and chasing demonstrators. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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** FILE ** Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew discusses the White House budget on Monday, Feb. 14, 2011, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Kato became a gay-rights activist after he was beaten up four times, arrested twice, fired from his teaching job and outed in the press. Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their families, friends and even landlords also could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. (Associated Press)

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Mourners pay their last respects during the funeral of David Kato, a Ugandan gay-rights activist, in Mukono, Uganda, last month. Activists were outraged over the death of Kato, an advocacy officer for the gay-rights group Sexual Minorities Uganda. His slaying comes after a year of stepped-up threats against gays in Uganda, where a controversial bill has proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts. (Associated Press)