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This file photo made Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, shows the gallery during a Dallas Police & Fire Pension System board of trustees meet in Dallas. Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed two bills aimed at fixing troubled pensions in Dallas and Houston respectively. Both are projected to have billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities that could have caused them to go broke in a decade or less. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Eric C. Conn, seen here in a photo issued by the FBI, is accused of attempting to bilk the federal government with more than $500 million worth of bogus Social Security disability applications.
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This undated booking photo provided by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Robert White II, of Las Vegas. White II, was acquitted at trial on Thursday, June 8, 2017, of a misdemeanor domestic battery after a judge heard evidence that his girlfriend was the aggressor in a physical argument. He lost his job at The Shade Tree domestic violence shelter following his arrest. (Clark County Detention Center via AP)
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Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof, R-West Olive, speaks with reporters after session outside the Michigan Senate on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, in Lansing, Mich. Meekhof says he remains committed to closing the pension system to newly hired teachers and instead giving them a 401(k) only, despite opposition from Gov. Rick Snyder and concerns that the stance is slowing passage of the next state budget. (AP Photo/David Eggert)
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FILE- This March 1, 2017, file photo shows an exterior view of the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. Uber has fired more than 20 employees after a law firm investigated complaints of sexual harassment, bullying, discrimination and other violations of company policies. An Uber spokeswoman says the firm Perkins Coie was hired after former engineer Susan Fowler posted a blog in February about sex harassment at the ride-hailing company. Fowler wrote that on her first day at work her boss propositioned her in a series of messages. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
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In this Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, a man walks past health insurer Anthem's corporate headquarters in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs speaks during a press conference at the scene where five employees were killed Monday, June 5, 2017, in a shooting at a business in Orlando (Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs speaks during a press conference at the scene where five employees were killed Monday, June 5, 2017, in a shooting at a business in Orlando. (Jacob Langston/Orlando Sentinel via AP)
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Construction workers leave flowers near the attack scene at London Bridge following Saturday's attack Monday June 5, 2017. (Isabel Infantes/PA via AP)
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In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 4, 2017, the Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
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Côte d'Ivoire Foreign Minister Marcel Amon Tanoh address a meeting in the U.N. Security Council after his country's election as one of five non-permanent members to the Security Council, Friday June 2, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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This May 24, 2017 photo shows retired General Electric workers Sue James, left, and Marilyn Harding during an interview at Harding's home in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Both women have lost a former GE working family member to cancer, and Harding survived bladder and breast cancer. A report conducted by researchers hired by the union that represents workers at the plant found exposure to more than 3,000 toxic chemicals from 1945 to 2000 and significant health problems among former employees. GE spokeswoman Kim Warburton said the company has seen the report but can't confirm the accuracy of the claims made in it. (AP photo/Rob Gillies)
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This May 24, 2017 photo shows the General Electric manufacturing facility in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. For more than a decade, several hundred retirees from this plant, which produced engines for trains and ships among other things, have claimed illnesses linked to exposure to toxins inside the factory. Now, they may soon get the compensation they have sought from the provincial government, following Ontario Labor Minister Kevin Flynn publicly calling on the worker's compensation board to "bring justice" to about 300 former workers whose health claims were previously denied. (AP Photo/Rob Gillies)
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Illustration on the sate of the European Union by Daniel Marsula/Tribune Content Agency
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Associated Press Nevada's unemployment rate is at 5 percent since Gov. Brian Sandoval took office.
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Professor Robert Pollin, a researcher from the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, gestures to a chart showing estimates of cost savings if a proposed single-payer health care bill was approved by the Legislature, during a news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017,in Sacramento, Calif. A report released by the California Nurses Association, done by Pollin and others, suggests that a 2.3 precent sales tax and a 2.3 precent gross receipts tax would help cover the additional costs to provide health care for all Californians. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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Rep. Will Guzzardi, D-Chicago, is congratulated by Rep. Mary Flowers, D-Chicago, after Guzzardi's bill to raise the minimum wage passed the House Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at the Capitol in Springfield, Ill. (Rich Saal/The State Journal-Register via AP)
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In this May 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump talks to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis. in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington after the House pushed through a health care bill. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Professor Robert Pollin, a researcher from the University of Massachussetts-Amherst, gestures to a chart showing estimates of cost savings if a proposed single-payer health care bill was approved by the Legislature, during a news conference, Wednesday, May 31, 2017,in Sacramento, Calif. A report released by the California Nurses Association, done by Pollin and others, suggests that a 2.3 precent sales tax and a 2.3 precent gross receipts tax would help cover the additional costs to provide health care for all Californians. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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In this May 26, 2017 photo, Lisa Dammert and her husband, Patrick, pose at their home in Franklin, Tenn. As a thyroid cancer survivor battling nerve damage and other complications, Lisa was in such dire financial straits in 2014 that she and her husband let their health insurance lapse, putting them in a category with some 6 million Americans who have gone without coverage at times despite serious health problems. That group and millions of others who have had a gap in insurance could face higher charges under the Republican health care bill that recently passed the House. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
