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FILE - In this April 12, 2017, file photo, provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Hillary Clinton addresses the audience as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo listens at LaGuardia Community College in the Queens borough of New York, where Clinton joined Cuomo for a ceremonial signing of the state's new free tuition bill. It's the hope of proponents such as Bernie Sanders and Clinton, who made debt-free college a key talking point in their Democratic presidential campaigns, that New York's first-in-the-nation free tuition program for middle-class students will spread to other states. And that's the prediction of Cuomo, its main champion, who called the plan a "model for the nation." (Darren McGee/Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2017, file photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, right, and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders appear onstage together during an event at New York's LaGuardia Community College. It's the hope of proponents such as Sanders and Hillary Clinton, who made debt-free college a key talking point in their Democratic presidential campaigns, that New York's first-in-the-nation free tuition program for middle-class students will spread to other states. And that's the prediction of Cuomo, its main champion, who called the plan a "model for the nation." (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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Aya Hijazi, center, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen, is acquitted by an Egyptian court after nearly three years of detention over accusations related to running a foundation dedicated to helping street children, Cairo, Sunday, April 16, 2017. Egyptian authorities arrested Hijazi, her husband and six others in May 2014 on charges of abusing children in her care and engaging in human trafficking, kidnapping, sexual exploitation and torture. (AP Photo/Mohamed el Raai)
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Aya Hijazi, center, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen, is acquitted by an Egyptian court after nearly three years of detention over accusations related to running a foundation dedicated to helping street children, Cairo, Sunday, April 16, 2017. Egyptian authorities arrested Hijazi, her husband and six others in May 2014 on charges of abusing children in her care and engaging in human trafficking, kidnapping, sexual exploitation and torture. (AP Photo/Mohamed el Raai)
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This undated photo provided by Cook County Health & Hospitals System shows Dr. Jay Shannon. Cook County Health & Hospitals System, which handles more than 1 million patient visits in the Chicago area every year, has seen a significant financial boost from the Affordable Care Act. About 70 percent of the system’s patients were uninsured before the Affordable Care Act expanded coverage in 2014. Now, nearly the same percentage has coverage, and the system relies less on local tax dollars for support. The law’s future is unclear as Republicans in Congress consider another push to replace it after failing in March 2017. (Cook County Health & Hospitals System via AP)
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This undated photo provided by Cook County Health & Hospitals System shows Dr. Jay Shannon. Cook County Health & Hospitals System, which handles more than 1 million patient visits in the Chicago area every year, has seen a significant financial boost from the Affordable Care Act. About 70 percent of the system’s patients were uninsured before the Affordable Care Act expanded coverage in 2014. Now, nearly the same percentage has coverage, and the system relies less on local tax dollars for support. The law’s future is unclear as Republicans in Congress consider another push to replace it after failing in March 2017. (Cook County Health & Hospitals System via AP)
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Dressed as Uncle Sam, Lawrence Herrera of Los Angeles joins demonstrators protesting President Donald Trump's failure to release his tax returns and a host of other issues during a march and rally in downtown Los Angeles Saturday, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's failure to release his tax returns and a host of other issues during a march and rally in downtown Los Angeles Saturday, April 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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In this April 10, 2017, photo provided by the Los Angeles Dodgers, workers install a bronze statue of Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Robinson was the first black man to play in the major leagues, ending six decades of racial segregation, and a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He is the first to be honored with a statue at Dodger Stadium. It will be unveiled Saturday, April 15, 2017, on the 70th anniversary of his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rowan Kavner/Los Angeles Dodgers via AP)
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In this April 10, 2017, photo provided by the Los Angeles Dodgers, workers install a bronze statue of Dodgers legend Jackie Robinson outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Robinson was the first black man to play in the major leagues, ending six decades of racial segregation, and a first-ballot Hall of Famer. He is the first to be honored with a statue at Dodger Stadium. It will be unveiled Saturday, April 15, 2017, on the 70th anniversary of his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Rowan Kavner/Los Angeles Dodgers via AP)
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Demonstrators march through downtown Houston demanding greater governmental transparency and the release of President Donald Trump's tax returns during a protest Saturday, April 15, 2017. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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Demonstrators march through downtown Houston demanding greater governmental transparency and the release of President Donald Trump's tax returns during a protest Saturday, April 15, 2017. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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A pro-Donald Trump supporter is taken into custody by police during competing demonstrations at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, Calif., Saturday, April 15, 2017. Protesters took to the streets in dozens of cities nationwide, many calling on Trump to release his tax returns. (Anda Chu/San Jose Mercury News via AP)
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A pro-Donald Trump supporter is taken into custody by police during competing demonstrations at Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, Calif., Saturday, April 15, 2017. Protesters took to the streets in dozens of cities nationwide, many calling on Trump to release his tax returns. (Anda Chu/San Jose Mercury News via AP)
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In this image provided to The Washington Times by the office of the Arkansas Attorney General, state Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen is shown here at a death-penalty protest. On the same day he engaged in this protest, Judge Griffen issued a court order blocking planned executions from going forward. (Judd P. Deere, Office of Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge)
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Former Arkansas death row inmate Damien Echols talks with the media before speaking at a rally opposing Arkansas' upcoming executions, which are set to begin next week, on the front steps of the Capitol Friday, April 14, 2017, in Little Rock, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)
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Mike Mannshardt, 70, a retired teacher from Pittsboro, N.C., waits to hear from speakers at an anti-Trump rally in Raleigh on Saturday, April 15, 2017. Mannshardt and other demonstrators want Trump to release his income tax returns. (AP Photo/ Emery P. Dalesio)
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In this April 13, 2017 photo, Ombeni Kasongo poses outside the Easterseals office in Manchester, N.H. Kasongo, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is among 11 immigrants and refugees being trained to work in a residential treatment facility for children with neurological, psychological and behavioral challenges. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer)
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This photo provided by Cheryl Simon shows Pulaski County Circuit Judge Wendell Griffen taking part of an anti-death penalty demonstration outside the Governor's Mansion Friday, April 14, 2017 in Little Rock, Ark. Griffen issued a temporary restraining order Friday blocking the state from using its supply of vecuronium bromide after a company said it had sold the drug to the state for medical purposes, not capital punishment. Local media outlets had tweeted photos and video of Griffen appearing to mimic an inmate strapped to a gurney at the demonstration. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's office said she planned to file an emergency request with the state Supreme Court to vacate Griffen's order, saying Griffen shouldn't handle the case. (Cheryl Simon via AP)
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FILE – In this Sept. 17, 2015, file photo, Ohio state Rep. Nickie Antonio, left, D-Lakewood, Ohio, demonstrates tamper resistant pain pills by unsuccessfully trying to pulverize them with a hammer, as state Rep. Robert Sprague, R-Findlay, Ohio, awaits his turn during a news conference at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. Pharmaceutical lobbyists pressed to drive down cost estimates on an Ohio proposal requiring Medicaid and other insurers to cover harder-to-manipulate forms of prescription painkillers known as abuse-deterrent opioids, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File)
