House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, has already ruled out tax increases as negotiators begin their work Wednesday to come up with a new federal budget. There seems to be a willingness among both political parties to revisit the sequester issue. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
**FILE** Twelve women hold hands Friday, Nov. 8, 2013, as they block Sixth Street during an immigration reform protest outside Congressman Paul Ryan's office in Racine, Wis. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Gregory Shaver)