Social Issues

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FILE- In this April 27, 2017, photo, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin speaks at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington. The House approved legislation Tuesday, May 23, to cut the time it takes for the Department of Veterans Affairs to handle appeals from veterans unhappy with their disability payouts. The bill would overhaul the current VA appeals process, long described by Shulkin and his predecessors as "broken." (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

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FILE - In this June 21, 2013, file photo, the seal affixed to the front of the Department of Veterans Affairs building in Washington. The House approved legislation Tuesday, May 23, to cut the time it takes for the Department of Veterans Affairs to handle appeals from veterans unhappy with their disability payouts, an effort to reduce a rapidly growing claims backlog without adding billions in government costs. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Texas Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, right, talks to fellow lawmakers before debate over SB5, a weakened version of the state's voter ID law that a federal judge called discriminatory, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Democratic lawmakers, from left, Rep. Diego Bernal, D-San Antonio, Rep. Chris Turner, D-Arlington, Rep. Eric Johnson, D-Dallas, and Rep. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, line up in the House Chamber to ask questions during debate over SB5, a weakened version of the state's voter ID law that a federal judge called discriminatory, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, answers questions during debate over SB5, a weakened version of the state's voter ID law that a federal judge called discriminatory, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Texas Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford, looks over papers before debate over SB5, a weakened version of the state's voter ID law that a federal judge called discriminatory, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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Gov. Tom Wolf accompanied by Teresa Miller arrive for a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Wolf says he'll nominate his insurance commissioner, Miller, to lead a new agency overseeing public health and human services programs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Teresa Miller speaks with members of the media during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Gov. Tom Wolf says he'll nominate his insurance commissioner, Miller, to lead a new agency overseeing public health and human services programs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Teresa Miller accompanied by Gov. Tom Wolf depart a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Wolf says he'll nominate his insurance commissioner, Miller, to lead a new agency overseeing public health and human services programs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Gov. Tom Wolf speaks with members of the media during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Wolf says he'll nominate his insurance commissioner, Teresa Miller, to lead a new agency overseeing public health and human services programs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Teresa Miller accompanied by Gov. Tom Wolf speaks with members of the media during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Wolf says he'll nominate his insurance commissioner, Miller, to lead a new agency overseeing public health and human services programs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Gov. Tom Wolf shakes hands with Teresa Miller during a news conference at the Pennsylvania Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Wolf says he'll nominate his insurance commissioner, Miller, to lead a new agency overseeing public health and human services programs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Republican Sen. Joe Fain, far right of frame, speaks in a mostly empty Senate chamber during adjournment of a 30-day special legislative session, on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Olympia, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee immediately called the Legislature back for a second overtime session so that lawmakers can complete their work on the state budget. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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In this March 15, 2017 file photograph, Rep. Sonya Williams-Barnes, D-Gulfport, speaks at a news conference on the gender pay gap at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. As the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus chairwoman, Williams-Barnes said Tuesday, May 2, 2017, a number of the state's black legislators say they are boycotting a regional meeting that their own state is hosting this summer, to protest the rebel emblem on the state flag. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Illinois state Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields, discusses changes in the tax-increase package on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Springfield, Ill. Democrats in the Senate are preparing a budget plan that can be approved without Republican help as time winds down to the scheduled May 31 adjournment. (AP Photo/John O'Connor)

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Candles and tributes were left after a vigil in Albert Square, Manchester, England, on Tuesday, the day after a suicide attack at an Ariana Grande concert attended by many young people. (Associated Press)

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Precious Hughes, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, cries as she explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Dorothy Haymer of Yazoo City, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Indigo Williams, one of the four African-American mothers who have children in public elementary schools, explains why she and others are plaintiffs of a lawsuit filed on their behalf by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, in Jackson, Miss. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Jody Owens, director of the Mississippi office of the Southern Poverty Law Center, holds up a copy of a lawsuit filed on behalf of four African-American mothers with children in public elementary schools during a news conference in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Mississippi is denying good schools to African American students and violating the federal law that enabled the state to rejoin the union after the Civil War, the Southern Poverty Law Center alleged Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to strengthen constitutional protections for education. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)