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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2017 file photo, then-Housing and Urban Development Secretary-designate Dr. Ben Carson listens as President Donald Trump speaks after touring the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. Carson was one of the biggest names to join Donald Trump’s Cabinet, but since taking office about 100 days ago, he’s kept a low public profile. That could change starting this week as he begins a series of appearances in Washington, giving him an opportunity to spell out a vision for the housing agency he leads and try to avoid the controversies that have stemmed from some of his early remarks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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FILE - In this April 26, 2017 file photo, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson speaks with Michelle Heritage, director of a shelter program, inside a shelter in Columbus, Ohio. Carson was one of the biggest names to join Donald Trump’s Cabinet, but since taking office about 100 days ago, he’s kept a low public profile. That could change starting this week as he begins a series of appearances in Washington, giving him an opportunity to spell out a vision for the housing agency he leads and try to avoid the controversies that have stemmed from some of his early remarks. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
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State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, discusses his single-payer health care bill at a Capitol news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, is congratulated by Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, after Guzzardi's bill to raise the minimum wage passed the House Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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FILE - This is a Dec. 24, 2016, file photo showing Houston Texans' Keith Mumphery after an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals, in Houston. Police documents obtained by a newspaper say Houston Texans wide receiver Keith Mumphery was expelled from a Michigan State graduate studies program last year for a sexual misconduct violation. The Detroit Free Press reported Wednesday, May 31, 2017, that Mumphery was accused of sexually assaulting a student in a dormitory in March 2015. (AP Photo/Sam Craft, File)
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FILE - In this July 23, 2004 file photo John Gibson, right, and Capt. Jul Hull, left, walk past a prisoner sleeping on the floor of a cellblock at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta. The Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform group, said in a study released Wednesday, May 31, 2017, Georgia and New Mexico, two states with some of the nation's largest percentages of minority residents, also had the country's highest jail incarceration rates in 2013. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2008 file photo instructor Kimberlee Hanson discusses an assignment with student inmates at the Gordon Bernell Charter School in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, N.M. The Massachusetts-based Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform group, said in a study released Wednesday, May 31, 2017, Georgia and New Mexico, two states with some of the nation's largest percentages of minority residents, also had the country's highest jail incarceration rates in 2013. (AP Photo/Heather Clark,File)
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In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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CAPTION CORRECTS DATE A Syrian woman carries a girl at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Monday, May 29, 2017. The International Organization for Migration says more than 60,000 migrants have reached the shores of Europe so far in 2017, a sizeable decrease compared to the same period last year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Syrian women with their children speak, at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Monday, May 29, 2017. The International Organization for Migration says more than 60,000 migrants have reached the shores of Europe so far in 2017, a sizeable decrease compared to the same period last year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A boy waits with others for the food distribution at the refugee camp of Ritsona about 86 kilometers (53 miles) north of Athens, Monday, May 29, 2017. The International Organization for Migration says more than 60,000 migrants have reached the shores of Europe so far in 2017, a sizeable decrease compared to the same period last year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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State Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, discusses his single-payer health care bill at a Capitol news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2017.Shulkin is warning the VA is "still in critical condition" despite efforts to reduce wait times for medical appointments and expand care in the private sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2017.Shulkin is warning the VA is "still in critical condition" despite efforts to reduce wait times for medical appointments and expand care in the private sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2017.Shulkin is warning the VA is "still in critical condition" despite efforts to reduce wait times for medical appointments and expand care in the private sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Shulkin is warning the VA is "still in critical condition" despite efforts to reduce wait times for medical appointments and expand care in the private sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Shulkin is warning the VA is "still in critical condition" despite efforts to reduce wait times for medical appointments and expand care in the private sector. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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In this May 26, 2017 photo, Lisa Dammert is poses with her husband, Patrick, and son, Bobby, at their home in Franklin, Tenn. As a thyroid cancer survivor battling nerve damage and other complications, Lisa was in such dire financial straits in 2014 that she and her husband let their health insurance lapse, putting them in a category with some 6 million Americans who have gone without coverage at times despite serious health problems. That group and millions of others who have had a gap in insurance could face higher charges under the Republican health care bill that recently passed the House. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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In this May 26, 2017 photo, Lisa Dammert and her husband, Patrick, pose at their home in Franklin, Tenn. As a thyroid cancer survivor battling nerve damage and other complications, Lisa was in such dire financial straits in 2014 that she and her husband let their health insurance lapse, putting them in a category with some 6 million Americans who have gone without coverage at times despite serious health problems. That group and millions of others who have had a gap in insurance could face higher charges under the Republican health care bill that recently passed the House. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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FILE - This Oct. 10, 2013, file photo, shows an EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector, a Mylan product, in Hendersonville, Texas. Some big pension funds are urging shareholders of EpiPen maker Mylan to reject several company directors and the compensation it gives top executives, including the nearly $100 million Chairman and former CEO Robert Coury received last year. The pension funds say that the compensation came during backlash over prices the drugmaker charged for its EpiPen emergency allergy treatment. They also note that the company agreed to make “extraordinary and egregious” payments last year and over the next five years to Coury.(AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)
