Social Issues

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From left, Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, Senate Minority Leader Sharon Nelson, D-Maury Island, and House Minority Leader Dan Kristiansen, R-Snohomish, visit before taking part in the annual AP Legislative Preview, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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From left, House Minority Leader Dan Kristiansen, R-Snohomish, speaks as Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler, R-Ritzville, looks on at right, during the annual AP Legislative Preview, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y., left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, listen as Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, to discuss the nomination of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. to become Health and Human Services secretary. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

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These booking photos provided by the Chicago Police Department show, from left, Tesfaye Cooper, Brittany Covington, Tanishia Covington and Jordan Hill, four people charged, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

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This booking photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Jordan Hill, of Carpentersville, Ill. Hill is one of four people charged Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

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This booking photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Brittany Covington of Chicago. Covington is one of four people charged Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

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This booking photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Tanishia Covington, of Chicago. Covington is one of four people charged Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

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This booking photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows Tesfaye Cooper of Chicago. Cooper is one of four people charged Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, with aggravated kidnapping and taking part in a hate crime after allegedly beating and taunting a man in a video broadcast live on Facebook. (Chicago Police Department via AP)

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks during a news conference discussing women's health care, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

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Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, joined by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif., left, and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., right, and others, speaks during a news conference discussing women's health care, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

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Jionni Conforti poses for The Associated Press in his home, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Totowa, N.J. The transgender man has sued St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., after he says it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy procedure he said was medically necessary as part of his gender transition. Conforti, had scheduled the surgery in 2015, but he alleges in the federal lawsuit that a hospital administrator then told him the procedure to remove the uterus he was born with couldn't be done because it was a "Catholic hospital." (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Jionni Conforti poses for The Associated Press in his home, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Totowa, N.J. The transgender man has sued St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., after he said it cited religion in refusing to allow his surgeon to perform a hysterectomy procedure he said was medically necessary as part of his gender transition. Conforti had scheduled the surgery in 2015, but he alleges in the federal lawsuit that a hospital administrator then told him the procedure to remove the uterus he was born with couldn't be done because it was a "Catholic hospital." (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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This Oct. 13, 2016 booking image released by the Hardin County Detention Center, shows Stephen Kyle Goodlett, the former principal of LaRue County,Ky. High School. Goodlett, of Elizabethtown, Ky., was indicted Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2017, in Louisville on federal charges of possessing and transporting child pornography, news outlets reported. He admitted to seizing students’ phones so that he could steal pornographic images from them and trade them online, investigators said. He was fired after his arrest in October. (Hardin County Detention Center via AP)

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Taylor Hobson leans back as he ski bikes off the top of Emigration Canyon in Utah, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2016. Wet winter weather slammed much of the West on Wednesday. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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Mike Kerr glides down a slope from the top of Emigration Canyon in Utah with the aid of a ski bike on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2016. Wet winter weather slammed much of the West on Wednesday. (Francisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)

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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows death row inmate Ronald Phillips, convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter in Akron, Ohio. Federal Magistrate Judge Michael Merz in Dayton, Ohio, is hearing evidence in a weeklong trial over Ohio's newest lethal injection method using three drugs. Phillips is scheduled for execution on Feb. 15, 2017. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)

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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, to discuss the nomination of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. to become Health and Human Services secretary. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

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Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y., flanked by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, to discuss the nomination of Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga. to become Health and Human Services secretary. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

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President Barack Obama waves as he arrives on U.S. Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, to meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders. Walking with him is Rep. Federica Wilson, D-Fla., Rep. Joseph Crowley, D-NY., Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer of N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. Obama is at the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)