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Posted: 5/13/2013 3:09:37 PM EST
This combination of undated file photos shows Republican Governors Rick Perry, left, of Texas and Rick Snyder, of Michigan. After winning majorities in more than half the statehouses on principled platforms of making government smaller, Perry, Snyder and other and Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States are facing a philosophical dilemma _ what to do with all the money where an improving economy has suddenly created a surplus in revenues. (AP Photo/File)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 5:08:41 PM EST
FILE – In this March 28, 2013, file photo Republican Governor of Georgia Nathan Deal addresses the Senate in Atlanta. As more Republican governors yield to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the most conservative states in South, which includes governors who lead some of the nation’s poorest and unhealthiest states. Among them is Deal, who answers with skepticism when asked about projected uncompensated care savings and the U.S. Congress’s pledge to finance 90 percent of new Medicaid costs. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Posted: 2/8/2013 3:43:21 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2013 file photo Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder announces an expansion of the state's Medicaid health care program in Lansing, Mich. Once largely united in resisting the Obama administration’s new health reform overhaul, Snyder became the sixth GOP governor in the past two months to join a growing number of Republican governors now buying into parts of the system as the financial realities of their states’ medical costs begin to counterbalance the fierce election politics of the issue. (AP Photo/Detroit News, John M. Galloway, File) DETROIT FREE PRESS OUT; HUFFINGTON POST OUT
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Posted: 2/8/2013 3:43:21 PM EST
FILE - This combination of undated file photos shows Republican Governors, from left: Jan Brewer, Ariz.; Jack Dalrymple, N.D.; John Kasich, Ohio; Susana Martinez, N.M., and Brian Sandoval, Nev. While far from voicing a consensus opinion in their party, the governors, along with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, are six GOP governors who in the past two months who have joined a growing number of Republican governors now buying into parts of the system as the financial realities of their states’ medical costs begin to counterbalance the fierce election politics of the issue. (AP Photo/File)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 4:53:28 PM EST
Abortion rights advocates hold signs in the middle of a Pro-Life rally on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 4:53:28 PM EST
Abortion opponents try to block Abortion rights advocates at a rally on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 4:53:28 PM EST
Abortion rights advocates hold signs during a Pro-Life rally on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Both sides met on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 4:53:28 PM EST
Abortion opponents march to the Kansas Statehouse, and to a rally on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 3:38:37 PM EST
Abortion opponents rally at the steps of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 3:38:37 PM EST
Gov. Sam Brownback speaks during a pro-life rally on the steps of the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. His remarks came on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 1/22/2013 3:38:37 PM EST
Abortion opponents gather for a rally at the Kansas Statehouse, on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, in Topeka, Kan., Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013. Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a series of tough, anti-abortion measures during his first two years in office. Much to the dismay of abortion-rights advocates, Kansas has been part of a wave in which states with Republican governors and GOP-controlled Legislatures enacted new restrictions on abortion providers. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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Posted: 12/30/2012 11:03:27 AM EST
FILE - This Dec. 20, 2012 file photo shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie listens to a question in Belmar, N.J. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who made a fortune as a health care executive, long opposed President Barack Obama's remake of the health insurance market. After the Democratic president won re-election, the Republican governor softened his tone. In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie also has walked a careful line. Both Republican governors face re-election in states that Obama won twice, Christie in 2013 and Scott in 2014. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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Posted: 12/18/2012 6:13:24 PM EST
CORRECTS YEAR - FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, opponents cheer at a Cleveland rally as they hear election results sounding the defeat of an anti-union measure in Ohio. Unions spent $24 million to overturn the measure in Ohio, only to lose their effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker the following June. Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important states up for re-election in 2014. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
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Posted: 12/18/2012 6:13:24 PM EST
CORRECTS YEAR - FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2011 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, center, speaks with supporters at a union hall in Cleveland before a door-to-door campaign to urge a no vote on Ohio Issue 2. Unions spent $24 million to overturn the anti-union measure in Ohio, only to lose their effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker the following June. Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important states up for re-election in 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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Posted: 12/18/2012 3:53:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2012 file photo, opponents cheer at a Cleveland rally as they hear election results sounding the defeat of an anti-union measure in Ohio. Unions spent $24 million to overturn the measure in Ohio, only to lose their effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker the following June. Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important states up for re-election in 2014. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
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Posted: 12/18/2012 3:53:31 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2012 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, center, speaks with supporters at a union hall in Cleveland before a door-to-door campaign to urge a no vote on Ohio Issue 2. Unions spent $24 million to overturn the anti-union measure in Ohio, only to lose their effort to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker the following June. Blindsided by a new law weakening union rights in Michigan, organized labor is preparing to target Republican governors in politically important states up for re-election in 2014. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
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Posted: 12/10/2012 10:53:27 AM EST
FILE - In this Friday, July 27, 2012 file photo, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at a Republican Party of Arkansas fundraising dinner in Hot Springs, Ark. Top officials in Jindal's administration used personal email accounts to craft a media strategy for cutting Medicaid — a method of communication that can make it more difficult to track under public records laws. Jindal, now in his second term, has become a leading voice among Republican governors and is considered a potential presidential candidate. His administration's emails fold into a national debate over the use of personal email accounts by government members to discuss official business. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 8:13:27 AM EST
Republican Governors Association Chairman and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell speaks during a panel discussion at the 2012 RGA Annual Conference at Encore hotel-casino Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, in Las Vegas. Top Republicans meeting for the first time since Election Day say the party failed to unseat President Barack Obama because nominee Mitt Romney did not respond to criticism strongly enough or outline a specific agenda with a broad appeal. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)
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Posted: 11/17/2012 8:13:27 AM EST
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, left, Indiana Gov.-Elect Mike Pence, center, and Republican Governors Association Chairman and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell participate in a panel discussion during the 2012 RGA Annual Conference at Encore hotel-casino Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, in Las Vegas. Top Republicans meeting for the first time since Election Day say the party failed to unseat President Barack Obama because nominee Mitt Romney did not respond to criticism strongly enough or outline a specific agenda with a broad appeal. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill)
