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Doctors, nurses, health care workers and patients who will lose access to health care or see costs rise attend a rally against the GOP health care bill at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., Monday, July 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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FILE - In this April 19, 2017, file photo, Texas Speaker of the House Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, talks with fellow lawmakers on the House floor at the Texas Capitol in Austin. Straus says he doesn't want a "suicide" on his hands over a so-called bathroom bill that Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering lawmakers to revive later this month. LGBT rights groups say efforts to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use are discriminatory and could elevate the risk of suicides. Backers of the bill say privacy protections are needed. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, Dr. Tim Gocha walks past boxes containing remains of immigrants who've died along the U.S-Mexico border at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify immigrant remains found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family member. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, in an effort to help with identification, students work to clean the skeletal remains of an immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this April 12, 2017 photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this April 12, 2017 photo Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, the skeletal remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border sits at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas, where efforts are being made to discover the person identity. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this April 12, 2017 photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, the skeletal remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border is seen at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas, where efforts are being made to discover the person identity. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, in an effort to help with identification, students works to clean the skeletal remains of an immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State in San Marcos, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017, photo, Dr. Tim Gocha uses dental records as he works to help identify the remains of immigrant who died along the U.S-Mexico border, at the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, in San Marcos, Texas. Forensic investigators and advocacy groups said efforts to identify the remains of immigrants found along the Texas-Mexico border remain slow because DNA comparisons aren’t being made with a large pool of potential family members. DNA extracted from immigrants’ remains in Texas ends up in an FBI database. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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An Italian paramedic helps a migrant during the disembark of 402 migrants from the Britain Royal Navy's ship Echo in the harbor of Brindisi, Italy, Friday June 30, 2017. (Max Frigione /ANSA via AP)
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Migrants stand on the deck of the Swedish Navy ship Bkv 002, as they wait to disembark in the Sicilian harbor of Catania, Italy, Saturday, July 1, 2017. The Swedish ship carried 650 migrants rescued in various operations in the Mediterranean Sea and the dead bodies of seven men and two women, authorities said. (Orietta Scardino/ANSA via AP)
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In this June 27, 2017, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., tells reporters he is delaying a vote on the Republican health care bill while GOP leadership works toward getting enough votes, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, listens to the final debate on Senate Bill 9 during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Illinois State Rep. Greg Harris, D-Chicago, speaks during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Illinois House Minority Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, right, talks with Illinois State Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield, left, on the floor during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Illinois State Rep. David Harris, R-Arlington Heights, yells during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Illinois Stater Rep. Terri Bryant, R-Murphysboro, speaks during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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Illinois State Rep. Mike Unes, R-East Peoria, speaks during the overtime session at the state Capitol, Sunday, July 2, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois House has approved an income tax increase as part of a plan to end the nation's longest budget standoff. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
