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FILE - This Feb. 10, 2017, file photo, Kody Brown, left, from TV's reality show "Sister Wives," marches during a protest at the state Capitol, in Salt Lake City. Gov. Gary Herbert has signed into law a measure that hardens Utah's polygamy law by adding harsher penalties for polygamists convicted of other crimes such as domestic abuse. Polygamists opposed the bill, saying it is unconstitutional and unfairly targets their families. They say it will discourage people from reporting crimes like fraud or abuse. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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FILE – In this July 13, 2016 file photo, Brittany Packnett, of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, participates in a meeting about community policing and criminal justice with President Barack Obama and activists, civil rights, faith, law enforcement and elected leaders at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. A pair of testy exchanges between high-profile black women and white men in the political spotlight Tuesday, March 28, 2017, launched a tweetstorm under the hashtag BlackWomenAtWork. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE – In this Dec. 19, 2014, file photo, April Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks, asks President Barack Obama about race relations in the U.S., during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. A pair of testy exchanges between high-profile black women and white men in the political spotlight Tuesday, March 28, 2017, launched a tweetstorm under the hashtag BlackWomenAtWork. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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State Department building in Washington D.C. ** FILE **
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y., accompanied by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., speaks about the nomination of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 file photo, anti-abortion demonstrators gather at San Francisco City Hall for the 13th annual Walk for Life West Coast march. The collapse of the Republican health care overhaul in March 2017 was a sharp setback for anti-abortion leaders, whose hopes of halting federal funding to Planned Parenthood were derailed. But they continue to pursue that goal and also are pushing for a federal ban on most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. (AP Photo/Jocelyn Gecker)
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Pam Garozzo holds up a photograph of her late son Carlos, during a listening session on opioid and drug abuse with President Donald Trump, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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J.G. Scott, center, the chief fiscal analyst for the Kansas Legislature's research staff, confers with Zach Fridell, left, an attorney on lawmakers' bill-drafting staff, and state Sen. Ty Masterson, right, R-Andover, during a Senate debate on budget legislation, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Lawmakers are considering raising income taxes to close projected budget shortfalls (AP Photo/John Hanna)
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This photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Donald Harvey, a serial killer who became known as the "Angel of Death" and pleaded guilty in 1987 to 37 murders of hospital patients while working as a nurse's aide in Cincinnati and London, Kentucky, during the 1970s and '80s, claiming he was trying to end his patients' suffering. A spokeswoman for Ohio's prison system says Harvey was found badly beaten Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in his cell at the state's prison in Toledo, and the Ohio State Highway Patrol said Harvey was in critical condition Wednesday. He is serving multiple life sentences as part of a plea deal that avoided the death penalty. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP)
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36th Ward Alderman Gilbert Villegas speaks at a gathering of Belmont Cragin Community residents and leaders, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago activists and residents called for more transparency Tuesday as officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigate an agent-involved shooting that left a man wounded and raised questions about the use of force. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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36th Ward Alderman Gilbert Villegas speaks at a gathering of Belmont Cragin Community residents and leaders, Tuesday, March 28, 2017, in Chicago. Chicago activists and residents called for more transparency Tuesday as officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigate an agent-involved shooting that left a man wounded and raised questions about the use of force. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. questions Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. during a House Appropriations subcommittee to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., left, and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, listen to statements by the minority as Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, testified on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, before a House Appropriations subcommittee to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, to testify before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing to outline the Trump administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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President Donald Trump speaks during an opioid and drug abuse listening session, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, a doctor and former congressman, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017, before a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing to outline the Trump Administration's proposals to trim the HHS budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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FILE - In this July 27, 2016, file photo, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., takes the stage to speak during the third day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Activist Brittany Packnett encouraged people to tweet under #BlackWomenAtWork Tuesday, March 28, 2017. It’s a response to O’Reilly’s comment Tuesday that Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters’ hair was a "James Brown wig." He later apologized. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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FILE - In this March 20, 2017 file photo, Illinois State Comptroller Susana Mendoza speaks to the City Club of Chicago in Chicago. A judge has ruled that Mendoza must pay lawmakers even though the state doesn't have a budget. Cook County Circuit Judge Rodolfo Garcia ruled in favor of Illinois legislators Thursday, March 23, 2017, citing a 2014 law passed after then-Gov. Pat Quinn withheld paychecks over pension reform. Mendoza said she planned to comply with the order. (Rich Hein/Sun Times via AP File)
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A woman, center, is taken into custody on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 29, 2017. Police say a driver struck a U.S. Capitol Police cruiser near the U.S. Capitol and was taken into custody. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
