House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, and Rep. Joseph Crowley, New York Democrat, confer as they leave a press conference to announce their party's leadership positions for the 113th Congress after a meeting in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), left, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), third from left, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), right, watch as Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), left, awards Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), left, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), second from left, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, fourth from right, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), third from right, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), second from right, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif), right, applaud as Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), left, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), third from left, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), right, watch as Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), left, awards Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar, also known as Burma, the Congressional Gold Medal in the Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 19, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) is awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sept. 19, 2012. From left are Rep. Joseph Crowley, New York Democrat; Speaker of the House John Boehner, Ohio Republican; House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi; Suu Kyi; Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton; Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat; and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
