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Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner pauses while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing as the panel seeks reassurances about problems with the debut of the Affordable Care Act. Republicans on the committee emphasized their longstanding criticism of the law, citing examples of cancellations and increased costs while raising questions about cyber-security for healthcare.gov. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage speaks at a news conference where he touted his "Open for Business Zones" proposal, Monday, March 10, 2014, in Brunswick, Maine. The Republican governor says the zones will provide tax and energy relief, help businesses train and recruit workers, and give employees the right to opt out of paying union fees. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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Maine Gov. Paul LePage criticizes the state's Legislature during a news conference where he touted his "Open for Business Zones" proposal, Monday, March 10, 2014, in Brunswick, Maine. The proposal is targeted at businesses that invest more than $50 million and create at least 1,500 jobs. Under the bill, companies would be encouraged to hire Maine workers and contract with other Maine companies. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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This photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, June 9, 2013, in Hong Kong. U.S. intelligence officials are planning an electronic monitoring system that would tap into government, financial and public databases to scan the behavior patterns of many of the 5 million government employees who hold secret clearances, according to current and former officials. The system draws on a Defense Department model in development for more than a decade, documents reviewed by the Associated Press show. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras)
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Sens. Jack Reed, Rhode Island Democrat, (left) and Dean Heller, Nevada Republican, were working together on a bipartisan bill in last year to restore unemployment benefits that fell one vote short of overcoming a GOP-led filibuster. (Associated Press)
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A sign for Freescale Semiconductor is seen in this photo from Austin, Texas on Sunday March 9, 2014. The Austin-based technology company says its 20 employees on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China. Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga said Sunday that the employees, 12 from Malaysia and eight from China, work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
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A sign for Freescale Semiconductor is seen in this photo from Austin, Texas on Sunday March 9, 2014. The Austin-based technology company says its 20 employees on board a missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China. Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga said Sunday that the employees, 12 from Malaysia and eight from China, work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)
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FILE In this April 18, 2013 photo, Maine Gov. Paul LePage smiles during a ceremony at the Blaine House in Augusta, Maine. Maine officials are criticizing the federal government’s proposal to make more workplace safety data available online. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration wants to require that injury and illness reports for specific employers are put online. LePage officials are concerned about the lack of assurances that enough personal information would be removed so that workers won’t be identified (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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FILE - In this May 4, 2011 file photo, Cami Anderson gestures while talking to the media after being named chief of the state-run Newark Public School system in Newark, N.J. More than three years after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg committed $100 million toward remaking Newark’s struggling schools, the district is engulfed in a dispute over proposed large-scale teacher layoffs that is threatening to derail wider reform efforts. Nearly half the money has been invested in a 2012 teacher contract that was hailed by Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the nation’s top teacher’s union official as an example of adversaries joining forces to rebuild a struggling urban school district. But the implementation of the contract, including a dispute over emphasizing teacher performance in determining layoffs, has devolved into a bitter fight between Anderson and teachers unions over the future of New Jersey’s largest school district. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
