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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:38:37 PM EST
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Counterterrorism Mark Thompson testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage" on Capitol Hill in Washington May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:38:37 PM EST
Members of the audience listen as Gregory Hicks, foreign service officer and former deputy chief of mission/charge d'affairs in Libya at the State Department, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage" on Capitol Hill in Washington May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:47:26 PM EST
Eric Nordstrom, Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on the deadly assault of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:47:26 PM EST
Witnesses, from left to right: Mark Thompson, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism at the Department of State; Gregory Hicks, former Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya; Eric Nordstrom, Diplomatic Security Officer and former Regional Security Officer in Libya testify at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Benghazi: Exposing Failure and Recognizing Courage" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:47:26 PM EST
Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on the deadly assault of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Hicks described a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the middle of the assault, amid confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and fears about the safety of additional American personnel. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:01:52 PM EST
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., holds a hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Left to right are witnesses Mark Thompson, the State Department's acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, and Eric Nordstrom, the State Department's former regional security officer in Libya. House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about the attack, rejecting administration assurances to the contrary and stoking a controversy with implications for the 2016 presidential race. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:01:52 PM EST
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, led by Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., holds a hearing about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. From right are witnesses Mark Thompson, the State Department's acting deputy assistant secretary for counterterrorism, Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, and Eric Nordstrom, the State Department's former regional security officer in Libya. House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about the attack, rejecting administration assurances to the contrary and stoking a controversy with implications for the 2016 presidential race. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:01:52 PM EST
Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, number two in rank to slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, arrives to testify at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about the attack, rejecting administration assurances to the contrary and stoking a controversy with implications for the 2016 presidential race. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:01:52 PM EST
Gregory Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya to slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, prepares to read his testimony at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about last year's deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. House Republicans insist the Obama administration is covering up information about the attack, rejecting administration assurances to the contrary and stoking a controversy with implications for the 2016 presidential race. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:32:41 AM EST
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy smiles as he arrives at Parliament to present a new reform program during a session in Madrid May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:32:41 AM EST
Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy smiles as he arrives at Parliament to present a new reform program during a session in Madrid May 8, 2013. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
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Posted: 5/8/2013 7:49:33 AM EST
The helmet of a member of the Household Cavalry regiment, left, obscures his face as he struggles to keep control of his horse before Britain's Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace in her Irish State Coach, to deliver her speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The British government says it will announce legislation to tighten immigration rules, reform pensions and reduce red tape for business when it lays out its legislative plans for the next year. The measures will be announced by Queen Elizabeth II during the pageant of power, pomp and politics known as the State Opening of Parliament. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 6:44:02 AM EST
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace in the Irish State Coach, to deliver her speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The British government says it will announce legislation to tighten immigration rules, reform pensions and reduce red tape for business when it lays out its legislative plans for the next year. The measures will be announced by Queen Elizabeth II during the pageant of power, pomp and politics known as the State Opening of Parliament. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 6:44:01 AM EST
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace in the Irish State Coach, to deliver her speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The British government says it will announce legislation to tighten immigration rules, reform pensions and reduce red tape for business when it lays out its legislative plans for the next year. The measures will be announced by Queen Elizabeth II during the pageant of power, pomp and politics known as the State Opening of Parliament. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 6:44:01 AM EST
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves Buckingham Palace in the Irish State Coach, to deliver her speech at the State Opening of Parliament in London, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The British government says it will announce legislation to tighten immigration rules, reform pensions and reduce red tape for business when it lays out its legislative plans for the next year. The measures will be announced by Queen Elizabeth II during the pageant of power, pomp and politics known as the State Opening of Parliament. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 4:30:43 PM EST
Ireland's Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin, speaks during a budget news conference at Government Buildings in Dublin December 5, 2011. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:53:43 AM EST
FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012 file photo, a Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. Four members of Army special forces ready to head to Benghazi, Libya, after the deadly assault on the American diplomatic mission had ended were told not to go, according to a former top diplomat. Gregory Hicks also argued in an interview with Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that if the U.S. military had flown aircraft over the Benghazi facility after it came under siege it might have prevented the second attack on the CIA annex that killed two CIA security officers. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)
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Posted: 5/6/2013 3:48:25 AM EST
FILE - In this May 11, 2010, file photo Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member, Republican Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Democrat Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., confer before an Immigration hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Democratic-led Senate, where the Judiciary Committee takes up the new immigration reform bill on Thursday, May 9, 2013, is already going to be a tough barrier. Meanwhile, to the dismay of immigration advocates, Chairman Leahy has announced plans to move forward with individual, single-issue immigration bills, rejecting the comprehensive approach in the Senate that's backed by President Barack Obama, who's made immigration legislation a top second-term priority. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg)
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Posted: 5/6/2013 3:48:25 AM EST
FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., asks a question during the committees's hearing on immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington. About the proposed bill Sessions says, “The supporters promoted the bill aggressively before anybody saw the language, and certain Republicans and conservative voices sort of held their fire, but that's beginning to change.” Sessions was a leading voice in the Senate against the bill in 2007 and is reprising that role this time around, making floor speeches, issuing press releases and holding briefing calls with reporters to argue that the bill would unlock a much larger volume of immigration into the U.S. than advertised, to the detriment of U.S. workers and jobs. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Posted: 5/5/2013 9:03:38 AM EST
FILE - In this April 10, 2013, file photo. a protester for immigration reform holds a sign in during a rally at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Absent a magic potion or explosive economic growth, it was all but inevitable President Barack Obama would have to break some of his campaign promises to keep others, distinguished both by their ambition and incompatibility. There's nearly unanimous, bipartisan agreement that the nation's immigration laws need fixing more than a quarter-century after the last major overhaul. Some 11 million immigrants live illegally in the U.S., most with no prospect of ever legalizing their status under current law _ unless they return to their home countries for 10 years first. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
