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Posted: 5/8/2013 4:12:21 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo supporters of gay marriage gather to call for Minnesota lawmakers to legalize gay marriage at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota has a state House vote on gay marriage Thursday, May 9, 2013, and Democratic leaders are assuring passage. With the state Senate likely to follow suit, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton could be signing a bill as early as next week. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 4:12:21 PM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2013 file photo supporters of gay marriage call for Minnesota lawmakers to legalize gay marriage at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Minnesota has a state House vote on gay marriage Thursday, May 9, 2013, and Democratic leaders are assuring passage. With the state Senate likely to follow suit, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton could be signing a bill as early as next week. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:05:38 PM EST
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell holds a news conference with fellow Republicans on Capitol Hill in Washington April 9, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
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Posted: 5/8/2013 2:49:46 AM EST
In this photo taken Monday, May 6, 2013, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., arrives at the Senate chamber for a vote, on Capitol Hill in Washington. One of the immigration bill’s authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has already acknowledged that the bill will face a tough road to passage if the border security elements are not improved. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:03:19 PM EST
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signs the marriage equality bill on the steps of Legislative Hall in Dover, Del. on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, after it was approved by the Delaware Senate earlier that afternoon. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Daniel Sato) NO SALES
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:03:19 PM EST
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signs the marriage equality bill on the steps of Legislative Hall in Dover, Del. on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, after it was approved by the Delaware Senate earlier that afternoon. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Daniel Sato) NO SALES
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:03:19 PM EST
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signs the marriage equality bill on the steps of Legislative Hall in Dover, Del. on Tuesday, May 7, 2013, after it was approved by the Delaware Senate earlier that afternoon. (AP Photo/The Wilmington News-Journal, Daniel Sato) NO SALES
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Posted: 5/7/2013 4:16:55 PM EST
Senate Budget Commitee chairwoman Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., listens to questions from Chuck Todd of NBC News at the 2013 Fiscal Summit in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 3:13:09 PM EST
FILE - In this April 18, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., center, and others Senators, participate in a news conference on immigration on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., Rubio, Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin of Ill., and Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. One of the legislation’s authors, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has already acknowledged that the bill will face a tough road to passage if the border security elements are not improved. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
The Senate Armed Services Committee hears from top officials of the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, left, and and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
The Senate Armed Services Committee hears from top officials of the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, right, and Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, left, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
The Senate Armed Services Committee hears from top officials of the Air Force, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, right, and Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, left, during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Besides funding for next year's Pentagon budget, the Air Force is dealing with controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 2:01:17 PM EST
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., questions top officials of the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, about how they are dealing with the controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 1:55:05 PM EST
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, listens to testimony from witnesses in hearings concerning MF Global and the Peregrine Association in Washington August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
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Posted: 5/7/2013 11:41:18 AM EST
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (L) (D-SD) talks with Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) during Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke appearance before a committee hearing on "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress." in Washington February 26, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
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Posted: 5/7/2013 11:13:42 AM EST
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, returns to work on Capitol Hill as the Senate prepared to vote on legislation to collect sales tax on internet purchases, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 11:13:42 AM EST
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., laughs as he and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, cross paths at competing TV news interviews just before a vote in the Senate on legislation to collect sales tax on internet purchases, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:53:43 AM EST
FILE - In this April 23, 2013, file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., leaves his committee office at the Capitol, in Washington. Gun control forces are targeting Sens. Kelly Ayotte, Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive the rejected effort to expand background checks to more firearms buyers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:53:43 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2013, file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., speaks at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gun control forces are targeting Sens. Ayotte, Max Baucus and others as they struggle to persuade five senators to switch their votes and revive the rejected effort to expand background checks to more firearms buyers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 5/7/2013 10:53:43 AM EST
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, left, and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., right, leave the Senate floor after voting on legislation to collect sales tax on Internet purchases, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 6, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
