Former Rep. Gabby Giffords is helped as she arrives for a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Washington, about measures to reduce gun violence and the bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Former Rep. Gabby Giffords is helped as she arrives for a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 17, 2013, in Washington, about measures to reduce gun violence and the bill to expand background checks on guns that was defeated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
**FILE** Arkansas state Sen. Gary Stubblefield, Branch Republican, speaks April 5, 2013, on the Senate floor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock for his bill that would ban the state from awarding grants to entities that perform abortions or abortion referrals. The measure narrowly failed in the Senate, but Stubblefield said he may try again to get the restriction through the Legislature. (Associated Press)
**FILE** Arkansas state Sen. Gary Stubblefield, Branch Republican, speaks April 5, 2013, on the Senate floor at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock for his bill that would ban the state from awarding grants to entities that perform abortions or abortion referrals. The measure narrowly failed in the Senate, but Stubblefield said he may try again to get the restriction through the Legislature. (Associated Press)
** FILE ** French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira (right) attends the debate in the French Senate on the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, in Paris on Thursday, April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/ Jacques Brinon)
** FILE ** French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira (right) attends the debate in the French Senate on the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, in Paris on Thursday, April 4, 2013. (AP Photo/ Jacques Brinon)
** FILE ** New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders applaud after Cuomo signed New York's Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act into law during a ceremony in the Red Room at the Capitol on Jan. 15, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. From left are Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein, Bronx Democrat, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Manhattan Democrat, Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy (behind Cuomo) and Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Yonkers Democrat. (Associated Press)
Copies of President Barack Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are distributed to Senate staff on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The president sent Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs but has drawn angry responses from both the right and left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
** FILE ** Copies of President Barack Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are distributed to Senate staff on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013. The president sent Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs but has drawn angry responses from both the right and left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
