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Flint resident Claire McClinton stands silently with her eyes closed and tape over her mouth during a silent protest against the change to limit public speaking to three minutes during Flint city council meetings on Friday, April 4, 2014 at Flint City Hall. Emergency Manager Darnell Earley made the change April 1, also moving the public speaking portion at the end of the meetings. "You've already taken our democracy away," she said. "Now, our voices are silenced." (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)
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Nayyirah Shariff, 37, of Flint stands with the word "silence" taped over her mouth during a silent protest against the change to limit public speaking to three minutes during Flint city council meetings on Friday, April 4, 2014 at Flint City Hall. Emergency Manager Darnell Earley made the change April 1, also moving the public speaking portion at the end of the meetings. "Why is the public speaking after all the decisions are made?" Shariff said. "I feel like this is another tactic to silence our democratic process." (AP Photo/The Flint Journal, Jake May)
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FILE - In this Nov. 2005, file photo is the witness room that adjoins the death chamber at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio. An Associated Press survey of the nation's 32 death penalty states found that the vast majority refuse to disclose the source of their execution drugs. While Ohio has been open about drugs purchased for executions, those cloaked in secrecy include states with some of the most active death chambers _ Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and Missouri among them. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 1957 file photo, police Detectives John Matassa, center and Sheldon Teller, right, examine the arms of a suspected narcotics addict and dealer in New York. Eric Schneider, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania said after World War II, heroin became a drug primarily used by blacks and Puerto Ricans in the Northeast and by Mexican Americans in the West. In the late 1960s, at the height of the hippie drug experimentation era, there was a resurgence of heroin use among young white people in the East Village and in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. (AP Photo)
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In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 photo, former heroin addict David Fitzgerald stands near the rehabilitation clinic where he works in Portland, Ore. Fitzgerald is the leader of the mentor program at Central City Concern, the only Portland rehabilitation clinic that claims a 60 percent success rate for treating heroin addiction. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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In this Wednesday, March 12, 2014 photo, former heroin addict David Fitzgerald stands near the rehabilitation clinic where he works as the leader of the mentor program in Portland, Ore. To counter addicts from using again, Central City Concern accompanies clients to housing appointments, keeps their daylight hours filled with to-dos and requires they spend idle hours at the facility, where they also sleep. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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**FILE** Applicants line up outside the SEIU-UHW office during a health care enrollment event in Commerce, Calif., on March 31, 2014. (Associated Press)
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FILE - This March 31, 2014, file photo shows Susana Martinez, left, holding her one-year-old grandson Giovanni Gonzales, wait in line with others waiting to sign up for health care insurance at the business office of Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Seven million sign-ups proves there's an appetite in the country for President Barack Obama's health care law, but it doesn't guarantee success for America's newest social program. The top priorities for the administration now guaranteeing that premiums remain affordable next year, making enrollment simpler, and improving subpar customer service. Republican opponents also face some tough questions: as millions of people get insurance, how long can the GOP's repeal strategy remain a viable political option? (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
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FILE - This March 31, 2014, file photo, shows a waiting filled with applicants waiting to be called during a health care enrollment event at the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond, Calif. Seven million sign-ups proves there's an appetite in the country for President Barack Obama's health care law, but it doesn't guarantee success for America's newest social program. The top priorities for the administration now guaranteeing that premiums remain affordable next year, making enrollment simpler, and improving subpar customer service. Republican opponents also face some tough questions: as millions of people get insurance, how long can the GOP's repeal strategy remain a viable political option? (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
