By MICHAEL FALCONE

NOTABLES

• MIKE PENCE SAYS 'RELIGIOUS FREEDOM' LAW WON'T CHANGE: Indiana's controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act will not be changing despite critics saying it allows business owners to discriminate against members of the LGBT community, state Gov. Mike Pence said Sunday during an exclusive interview on ABC's "This Week." Pence described the media coverage and opposition to the law as "shameless rhetoric," saying it strengthens the foundation of First Amendment rights rather than discriminates, ABC's STEPHANIE EBBS notes. "We're not going to change the law," he told ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, "but if the general assembly in Indiana sends me a bill that adds a section that reiterates and amplifies and clarifies what the law really is and what it has been for the last 20 years, than I'm open to that." http://abcn.ws/1F68Xf2 VIDEO: http://abcn.ws/19gl8eb

• BACKLASH ROUNDUP, courtesy of ABC's CHRIS GOOD: Seattle Mayor Ed Murray said Saturday that he plans to sign an executive order this week banning city-funded travel to Indiana; Apple CEO Tim Cook penned an op-ed in the Sunday Washington Post calling the law "very dangerous" and positing that it "rationalize[s] discrimination"; Chipotle is on record criticizing the law; so is Yelp; the NBA, Pacers, WNBA, and Indiana-based WNBA team the Indiana Fever released a joint statement that they would "continue to ensure that all fans, players and employees feel welcome at all NBA and WNBA events in Indiana and elsewhere" (via The Washington Post); Charles Barkley says the Final Four should be moved out of Indiana; and on Sunday, Angie's List said it will put "on hold" its planned expansion of a campus in Indianapolis.

• HOW THE LAW MIGHT RILE 2016 RACE: The bill has sparked intense backlash, but it's won a very important fan for Pence: Bob Vander Plaats, the noted Iowa-caucus kingmaker who heads up the FAMiLY Leader, a socially conservative group that exercises notable political influence in the critical primary-campaign state, ABC's CHRIS GOOD writes. "I think it definitely boosts his credibility, not just with a group like ours, but for any freedom-loving American who wants to have a full-spectrum conservative in the White House," Vander Plaats told ABC News.

• ANALYSIS - ABC's RICK KLEIN: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has seemed genuinely taken aback by the fierce reaction to his signing of the new religious freedom law. The combination of pressure from the corporate and sports worlds, particularly with the Final Four coming to Indianapolis this week, has placed Pence in uncomfortable territory during a critical time for his leadership and ambitions. His refusal to answer direct questions about the law's impact, on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," was either baffling or impressive, depending on your point of view. That may be the ultimate point for Pence: This will be a defining moment for him, one way or the other, and the implications are broader than his own possible candidacy. This week, with him at the center of a firestorm, the pressure will be on Pence to define what the new law is and isn't designed to do. This could easily be a flashpoint that's visible throughout the 2016 campaign, whether or not Pence is a part of it. Perceptions this week will draw critical contours.

THE BUZZ

with ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI

GOV. MARTIN O'MALLEY: PRESIDENCY NOT A CROWN TO BE PASSED BETWEEN TWO FAMILIES. Gov. Martin O'Malley, the former Democratic governor of Maryland who is considering a run for the White House, said Sunday that new leadership is needed as the country heads toward the 2016 presidential race. "The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families. It is an awesome and sacred trust to be earned and exercised on behalf of the American people," O'Malley told ABC's GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS on "This Week" Sunday. When asked whether he was referring specifically to the Clinton and Bush families, the former governor said simply that the principle would apply to any two families. WATCH: http://abcn.ws/1FZf7R7

5 STORIES YOU'LL CARE ABOUT IN POLITICS THIS WEEK. It's a time of farewells - to Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., to Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., to the pre-candidacy phase of 2016, and to Sen. Ted Cruz's old health care plan. It's a time for a high-profile deadline and honors for a liberal lion. Meanwhile, busted brackets may be the least of the story lines set to converge on Indianapolis. ABC's RICK KLEIN highlights some of the stories the ABC News political team is tracking in the week ahead. http://abcn.ws/1IHnOhb

FIORINA SAYS CLINTON'S CHARACTER IS 'FLAWED.' On Fox News Sunday, potential GOP candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced that her plans to run in the 2016 election was "higher than 90%." Fiorina scorched Hillary Clinton, saying that her use of a private server suggested a lack of transparency and cast serious doubts on the judgments of her character. "And I think now in Email-Gate, we not only have a situation where she's clearly not being candid; I mean her saying that all of those emails she erased were just her and Bill chatting is a little bit like Richard Nixon saying that those erased moments on the tape were he and Pat talking. It's ridiculous. Of course there was more there than that." Although Fiorina questioned Clinton's competency in technology, she also said her use of a private server was probably thought out, according to ABC's MISHA WEE.

WHO'S TWEETING?

@abbydphillip: That time when the passport number for Obama and 30 other world leaders was emailed to a random person: http://wapo.st/1EpVVvl

@CNNPolitics: From @frates: Jeb Bush missed red flags in Florida business scandal http://cnn.it/1Dd9Sve

@AlexConant: Marco above the fold -> MT @WSJ: Obama and Iran, Rubio, Dreamworks. The front page http://www.wsj.com

@tackettdc: . @NYTArchives Ronald Reagan is wounded in an assassination attempt on this day in 1981. http://nytimes.com/1981/03/31/us/ …

?@politico: The real question, @Reince Priebus said, is whether @HillaryClinton's server was actually wiped clean http://politi.co/1CCzn8G