Government

Retiring Randy Schmid, (43-years), seated, at the AP office in Washington,Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. Standing, from left are, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Lauren Neergaard, Doug Birch, Seth Borenstein, Sam Hananel, and Barry Schweid. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FILE - In this May 9, 2013 file photo, Stephen Acquario, executive director of the New York State Association of Counties, attends a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. Acquario is among hundreds of lobbyists in at least 20 states who get public pensions because they represent associations of counties, cities and school boards, an Associated Press review found. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)

Brian Bakst, St. Paul, Minn., correspondent.

In this photo taken Monday Aug. 5, 2013 Associated Press Newsman Steve Peoples is seen in Wolfeboro, N.H.(AP Photo/Jim Cole)

The west branch of the Susquehanna River flows past Jersey Shore, Pa. on Sunday March 23, 2014. About a third of the borough (population 4,300) is in a flood hazard zone and nearly 470 homes in town are expected to see flood insurance premium hikes because of changes to the National Flood Insurance Program. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)

In this July 11, 2014, photo, Cuban students exit Marta Abreu Central University in Santa Clara, Cuba. Beginning as early as October 2009, a project overseen by the U.S. Agency for International Development sent Venezuelan, Costa Rican and Peruvian nationals to Cuba to cultivate a new generation of political activists. Often posing as tourists, the young travelers befriended Cuban students. Fernando Murillo, contracted to turn politically apathetic young Cubans into ìchange agents,î headed to Santa Clara and connected with a cultural group that called itself ìRevolution,î a modest outfit of street artists devoted to electronic music and video. (AP Photo/Franklin Reyes)