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** FILE ** In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, announces that sign-ups have accelerated in November for health insurance during the first month of open enrollment during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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In this Dec. 18, 2013 photo, David Borris, owner of Hel's Kitchen Catering in Northbrook, Ill., poses for a photo in his company's kitchen. Borris said the health law doesn’t affect his hiring. He employs 25 full-timers and up to 80 others during the busy holiday party season. He has offered insurance for full-time workers since 1990 and believes the law has stabilized what he pays for insurance premiums. Borris, whose suburban Chicago company is too small to fall under the law’s mandate, argues that health benefits attract good workers. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2013 file photo, Illinois Sen. Daniel Biss, D-Skokie speaks with a legislative staffer at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. A report to be released Tuesday, Jan 21, 2014, says Illinois $160 billion pension plan ultimately won’t make much of a dent in the state’s growing deficits. Biss, a pension reform negotiator and mathematician by trade, has long urged that reforms are just a drop in the bucket. He says we have to take steps on the tax side and other steps on the spending side besides pensions. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
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FILE - This Sept. 19, 2013 file photo shows Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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FILE - This March 6, 2013 file photo shows a Staples office supply store Miami. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. (AP Photo/ Lynne Sladky, File)
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Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union poses for a photo at their Washington headquarters, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The opening of Postal Service retail centers in dozens of Staples stores around the country is being met with threats of protests and boycotts by the agency’s unions. The new outlets are staffed by Staples employees, not postal workers, and labor officials say that move replaces good-paying union jobs with low-wage, nonunion workers. "It's a direct assault on our jobs and on public postal services," said Mark Dimondstein, president of the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
