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**FILE** Rep. Charles Djou, Hawaii Republican and the former Honolulu city councilman who recently replaced Rep. Neil Abercrombie, attends his first meeting on the House Budget Committee on June 9, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Escorted by Texas Parks and Wildlife officials, Tiffany Hartley (center) and family members lay a wreath on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, near the site where her husband, David Hartley, was shot last week. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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This undated photo from the biography section of CNN's website, shows former CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez. CNN fired Sanchez on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority. (AP Photo/CNN)

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In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009, U.S. Marines with Alpha Company-Task Force Raider, 2nd Recon Battalion lie down inside a small patrol base during a pause in an all night mission in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Task Force Raider is a strike force which conducts raids targeting Taliban networks in the Helmand province. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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STUMPING: Ryan L. Frazier (right), GOP candidate in Colorado's 7th Congressional District, chats with Andrew Bryce in Wheat Ridge, Colo. Minorities are running strongly as Republicans. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this April 20, 2005 file photo, student Marissa Manzi wears a condom costume at an AIDS Awareness Day rally outside the state Capitol in Hartford, Conn. The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers. That's just a tiny sampling of the data being unveiled Monday, Oct. 4, 2010 in what the researchers say is the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans' sexual behavior since 1994. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

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HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:01 A.M. EDT ON MONDAY; graphic shows results of a new survey about sexual practices

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Serb Prime Minister Milorad Dodik of the Union of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) casts his vote at a polling station in Banja Luka, Bosnia, 74 miles west of Sarajevo, on Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. With the top candidates fiercely at odds over Bosnia's future, the elections are likely to further entrench the nation's ethnic divisions and threaten possible European Union entry. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

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Activists gather at the Lincoln Memorial to participate in the "One Nation Working Together" rally to promote job creation, diversity and tolerance on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Rutgers University students sign condolence cards Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, in New Brunswick, N.J., for the family of fellow student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide apparently after his roommate allegedly broadcast video of his having sex with another man. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

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**FILE** Sex education teacher Shayna Knowles (center) talks Sept. 10, 2010, to students during class at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth, Fla. (Associated Press)

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This April 2010 photo shows Chris Armstrong, the gay University of Michigan student assembly president in Ann Arbor, Mich. Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general, is using his personal blog to target Mr. Armstrong, calling him a racist with a "radical homosexual agenda." The lawyer claims that when he's not at work, he has the right to say whatever he wants. (AP Photo/AnnArbor.com, Melanie Maxwell)

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Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa protest against rebellious police outside the hospital where Ecuador's President Rafael Correa is located in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)

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Supporters of Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, carrying a poster of Correa, protest against rebellious police outside the hospital where Correa is located in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Patricio Realpe)

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Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, center, wearing a gas mask, is caught in the middle of a police protest at a police base in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday Sept. 30, 2010. The government declared a state of siege Thursday after rebellious police, angered by a law that cuts their benefits, shut down airports and blocked highways in a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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A French riot policeman, left, holds an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 on the ground. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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A French riot policeman, left, holds an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 on the ground. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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A French riot policeman, left, grab an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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A French riot policeman, left, holds an anesthetist doctor who was demonstrating near the Elysee Palace in Paris, Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 on the ground. Hundreds of anesthetist doctors were protesting against the policy of the French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)