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Rep. Paul Cook, R-Calif., right, and Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., members of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, listen as officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs testify about allegations of gross mismanagement and misconduct at Veterans Administration hospitals, possibly leading to patient deaths, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez, pro-amnesty Illinois Democrat, recently traveled to Richmond, where he rallied for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, to break the immigration impasse in Congress. (associated press)
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Senate Finance Committee Chairman Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, describes the nearly $25 billion budget proposed for next year to senators on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. The Senate approved a nearly $25 billion budget to finance state government operations and services next year. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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Sen. Greg Tarver, D-Shreveport, center, talks to Sens. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, left, and Robert Adley, R-Benton, right, during the Senate's budget debate on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Baton Rouge, La. The Senate approved a nearly $25 billion budget to finance state government operations and services next year. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)
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From left, Dr. Thomas Lynch, the assistant deputy under secretary for health for clinical operations at the Veterans Health Administration, Joan Mooney, the assistant secretary for congressional and legislative affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, and Michael Huff, a congressional relations officer with the Department of Veterans Affairs, testify as the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs hears from the three witnesses about allegations of gross mismanagement and misconduct at VA hospitals possibly leading to patient deaths, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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File-This May 9, 2012 file photo shows pedestrians passing New York's Stonewall Inn, which was made a national historic landmark in 2000. The National Park Service is launching an initiative to make places and people of significance to the history of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual Americans part of the national narrative. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II,File)