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FILE - In this Nov. 18, 2011 file photo, University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif. Pike later lost his job, as did UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi. University of California, Berkeley police took a hands-off approach to protesters on the campus last week when violent rioters overtook a largely peaceful protest against a controversial speaker. But that response is being questioned as demonstrators become increasingly hostile and politics are more polarized. (Wayne Tilcock/The Davis Enterprise via AP, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 2, 2017 file photo, a student walks past boarded-up windows at the Student Union on the University of California, Berkeley campus after demonstrations overnight. UC Berkeley police took a hands-off approach to protesters on the campus last week when violent rioters overtook a largely peaceful protest against a controversial speaker. But that response is being questioned as demonstrators become increasingly hostile and politics are more polarized. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017 file photo, University of California, Berkeley police guard the building where Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was to speak. UC Berkeley police took a hands-off approach to protesters on the campus last week when violent rioters overtook a largely peaceful protest against a controversial speaker. But that response is being questioned as demonstrators become increasingly hostile and politics are more polarized. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson signs a bill in his Capitol conference room in Little Rock on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, to cut income taxes on military retirement benefits as Sen. Jane English, center, looks on. The tax cut is intended to help promote economic development by attracting retirees to the state. Arkansas will raise taxes on unemployment benefits, soda, candy and digital downloads to pay for it. (AP Photo/Kelly P. Kissel)
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FILE -In this Jan. 9, 2017, file photo, Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter delivers his State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building, in Boise, Idaho. Otter said he chose the wrong word in his recent remarks acknowledging his preference that Christian refugees should be treated as a priority. Otter, speaking at an Idaho Press Club event Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, said he believes in religious preference, not religious discrimination. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger, File)
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This book cover image released by Metropolitan Books shows, "This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class," by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The book will be published on April 18. Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, has written previous 10 books. Her 2014 release “A Fighting Chance” was a best-seller. (Metropolitan Books via AP)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 photo Charm Howie, of Providence, R.I., stands for a photograph, in Woonsocket, R.I. Howie is one of several residents alleging racially biased and overly aggressive policing by what critics have come to call the "third shift terror squad" of Providence officers who patrol the city's South Side at night. Howie, a black former police cadet, has a unique relationship with the white officers who arrested him after a traffic stop last year: he was their former classmate at an academy he says he was bullied into leaving. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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In this Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016 photo Charm Howie, of Providence, R.I., stands for a photograph, in Woonsocket, R.I. Howie is one of several residents alleging racially biased and overly aggressive policing by what critics have come to call the "third shift terror squad" of Providence officers who patrol the city's South Side at night. Howie, a black former police cadet, has a unique relationship with the white officers who arrested him after a traffic stop last year: he was their former classmate at an academy he said he was bullied into leaving. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Rep. John Larson, Connecticut Democrat, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 18, 2015, to announcing the introduction of the Social Security 2100 Act. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2015 file photo, Steven Young, president of the Atlantic City Chapter of the National Action Network, speaks during a news conference, in Bridgeton, N.J. Young is suing New Jersey over his arrest while testifying at a state Senate hearing, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Young was handcuffed and taken into custody on March 10 after refusing to end his testimony against a state takeover of the struggling city last year. Disorderly persons charges were later dropped. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. meets with Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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In this photo made Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, new housing under construction in St. Louis. The development is receiving federal low-income housing tax credits. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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In this photo made Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, new housing under construction in St. Louis. The development is receiving federal low-income housing tax credits. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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This Monday, Jan. 30, 2017 photo shows new housing under construction in St. Louis. The development is receiving federal low-income housing tax credits. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
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Secretary of the Budget Randy Albright speaks with members of the media during a news conference ahead of Gov. Tom Wolf's budget address for the 2017-18 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 07, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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FILE - This Feb. 1, 2017 file photo New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez talks about the economic impact of a $37 million contract to install solar panels to power Facebook's new data center during a news conference in Albuquerque, N.M. The nation's only Latina governor is denouncing a charge by a white former mayor of Santa Fe that she is a racist. A spokesman for Martinez says comments made by former Santa Fe Mayor David Coss at an immigrant rights rally Monday, Feb. 6, were "are sad and ignorant." (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan,File)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, before the House Homeland Security Committee. This is Kelly's first public appearance before lawmakers who are sure to press him for details about the Trump administration's contentious rollout of a travel and refugee ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly smiles while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, before the House Homeland Security Committee. This is Kelly's first public appearance before lawmakers who are sure to press him for details about the Trump administration's contentious rollout of a travel and refugee ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly listens while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, before the House Homeland Security Committee. This is Kelly's first public appearance before lawmakers who are sure to press him for details about the Trump administration's contentious rollout of a travel and refugee ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly listens to a question while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, before the House Homeland Security Committee. This is Kelly's first public appearance before lawmakers who are sure to press him for details about the Trump administration's contentious rollout of a travel and refugee ban. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
