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Posted: 5/23/2013 3:16:28 PM EST
FILE - In this July 16, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, flags hang above the sign marking the Camp Justice compound, the site of the U.S. war crimes tribunal, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. President Barack Obama's speech national security speech Thursday is expected to reaffirm his national security priorities _ from homegrown terrorists to killer drones to the enemy combatants held at the military-run detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba _ but make no new sweeping policy announcements. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
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Posted: 5/4/2013 2:48:32 AM EST
FILE - In this April 18, 2013, file photo, Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., asks a question of Secretary of State John Kerry as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine national security and foreign policy priorities in the fiscal 2014 international affairs budget. An ethical cloud is following Menendez in Washington, even as he plays starring roles in some of Congress most fraught domestic and foreign policy dramas. The New Jersey Democrat leads the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee as clashes with Syria, Iran and North Korea come to the forefront. At home, the Cuban-American senator is at the center of the immigration reform fight that’s captivating Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)
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Posted: 4/29/2013 3:56:26 PM EST
New Minister for Labour and Welfare is Enrico Giovannini (L) sits next to Ministry of Education, Universities and Research Maria Chiara Carrozza at the Lower house of the parliament in Rome, April 29, 2013. Newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta pledged to push for a change to the European Union's focus on austerity and pursue growth and jobs in an inaugural speech on Monday laying out the priorities for his coalition government. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 4/29/2013 3:56:26 PM EST
European Affairs Minister Enzo Moavero looks on as he attends at the Lower house of the parliament in Rome, April 29, 2013. Newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta pledged to push for a change to the European Union's focus on austerity and pursue growth and jobs in an inaugural speech on Monday laying out the priorities for his coalition government. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 4/29/2013 3:56:26 PM EST
New Minister for Labour and Welfare is Enrico Giovannini (L) sits next to Ministry of Education, Universities and Research Maria Chiara Carrozza at the Lower house of the parliament in Rome, April 29, 2013. Newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta pledged to push for a change to the European Union's focus on austerity and pursue growth and jobs in an inaugural speech on Monday laying out the priorities for his coalition government. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 4/29/2013 3:56:26 PM EST
European Affairs Minister Enzo Moavero looks on as he attends at the Lower house of the parliament in Rome, April 29, 2013. Newly appointed Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta pledged to push for a change to the European Union's focus on austerity and pursue growth and jobs in an inaugural speech on Monday laying out the priorities for his coalition government. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
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Posted: 4/21/2013 9:13:25 AM EST
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas leaves a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 21, 2013. Wrapping up a 24-hour visit to Istanbul, Kerry on Sunday sought to cement and speed up an improvement in relations between Turkey and Israel as well as explore new ways to relaunch Mideast peace efforts. President Barack Obama has made both issues foreign policy priorities for his second term and Kerry was pushing them in meetings with Abbas and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.(AP Photo)
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Posted: 4/21/2013 9:13:25 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu point toward the Bosporus before a working lunch in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, April 21, 2013. Wrapping up a 24-hour visit to Istanbul, Kerry on Sunday sought to cement and speed up an improvement in relations between Turkey and Israel as well as explore new ways to relaunch Mideast peace efforts. President Barack Obama has made both issues foreign policy priorities for his second term and Kerry was pushing them in meetings with Abbas and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.(AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Pool)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 11:42:39 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry testifies at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on national security and foreign policy priorities for the 2014 international affairs budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 4/18/2013 11:42:39 AM EST
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry testifies at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on national security and foreign policy priorities for the 2014 international affairs budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 4/18/2013 11:08:33 AM EST
Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine national security and foreign policy priorities in the fiscal 2014 international affairs budget. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)
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Posted: 3/20/2013 11:03:41 AM EST
Pope Francis waves to crowds as he arrives to his inauguration Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 6:08:32 PM EST
Pope Francis gives thumb-up to faithful as he arrives for his inauguration Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 11:18:41 AM EST
A woman watches the inauguration of Pope Francis on a giant screen outside Notre Dame cathedral, Paris, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Posted: 3/12/2013 9:53:32 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. leaves a Republican caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate bill to carry the government through September denies the Obama administration money for implementing new regulations on Wall Street and expansion of government health care subsidies but provides modest additional funding for domestic priorities like Head Start and health research. Looking to next year, House Republicans prepare a now-familiar budget featuring futile gestures to block "Obamacare" and turn Medicare into a voucherlike program for future retirees. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Posted: 3/8/2013 6:08:37 PM EST
Charts show public opinion on government spending priorities since
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Posted: 3/5/2013 9:08:42 AM EST
In this Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 photo, Trader Craig Spector, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. World stock markets rose Tuesday March 5, 2013 as investors registered approval for China's spending priorities announced at its annual congress. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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Posted: 3/5/2013 4:28:20 AM EST
A currency trader looks at the computer monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Asian stock markets rose Tuesday as investors registered approval for China's spending priorities announced at its annual congress. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Posted: 3/5/2013 4:28:20 AM EST
A currency trader looks at the computer monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Asian stock markets rose Tuesday as investors registered approval for China's spending priorities announced at its annual congress. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Posted: 3/5/2013 4:28:20 AM EST
A currency trader works near a screen showing the foreign currency rates at the foreign exchange dealing room of the Korea Exchange Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Asian stock markets rose Tuesday as investors registered approval for China's spending priorities announced at its annual congress. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
