August 1, 2012  |   Obama campaign volunteers prepare to canvas a Tampa, Fla., neighborhood last week. Photo by Angel E. Valentin/The Washington Post via Getty Images. President Obama appears to have a clear advantage in three battleground states heading into the final stretch...

July 31, 2012  |   Mitt Romney gives a speech Tuesday at the University of Warsaw. Photo Janek Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images. Suffice it to say Mitt Romney's overseas tour has not gone exactly to plan. First, there was the controversy over his comments about London's...

July 20, 2012  |   A gunman opened fire at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., on Thursday night. Photo by Thomas Cooper/Getty Images. There are events that transcend politics in America, and the Thursday night shooting at a movie theater outside...

July 12, 2012  |   Mitt Romney in Boston in 1993 as chief executive of Bain Capital. Photo by David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Mitt Romney is fighting fire with fire. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate released a new television ad...

July 5, 2012  |   Mitt Romney and his family walk in an Independence Day parade on Wednesday in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Photo by Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney provided the political fireworks Wednesday, telling CBS News the mandate in President...

June 27, 2012  |   President Obama attends a fundraiser in Miami Beach on Tuesday. Photo by Marice Cohn Band/Miami Herald via via Getty Images. The latest snapshot of the presidential race reveals President Obama and Mitt Romney locked in a close race nationally,...

June 15, 2012  |   BOSTON | Mitt Romney's five-day, six-state bus tour set to launch Friday will take the candidate to turf friendly to President Obama, a top campaign strategist told reporters at a morning briefing at the team's headquarters in Boston. Romney adviser...

June 14, 2012  |   With his own job secure until 2014 thanks to a decisive win in last week's recall contest, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Thursday challenged Mitt Romney to define for voters in clear terms what he would do to address the country's fiscal problems.

June 11, 2012  |   President Obama delivers remarks on the economy in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House Friday. Photo by: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney seem intent on fighting another round of the...

June 5, 2012  |   Gov. Scott Walker speaks to employees during a campaign stop at Quad Graphics in Sussex, Wis. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Tuesday avoided becoming the third governor in U.S. history to be recalled, beating back a challenge from Milwaukee Mayor...

May 21, 2012  |   President Barack Obama holds a press conference at the NATO Summit in Chicago on May 21. Photo by Mandel Nagan/AFP President Obama called Mitt Romney's business experience at Bain Capital fair game Monday during a press conference at the...

May 17, 2012  |   A proposed $10 million TV ad campaign linking President Obama to his controversial former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, right, will reportedly not make it to the small screen. The Associated Press reported Thursday that a conservative group tied to TD...

May 7, 2012  |   President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave to a crowd at a campaign rally at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond on Saturday. Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images. President Obama and Mitt Romney received a fresh sign Monday...

April 27, 2012  |   House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, holds his weekly press conference on Thursday. Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. House Speaker John Boehner endorsed Mitt Romney just last week, and by Thursday he had turned into one of the presumptive...

April 26, 2012  |   President Obama exits Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on Wednesday. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. This entry was updated at 1:08 p.m. ET President Obama plans to kick off his general election campaign next weekend with...

April 25, 2012  |   Newt Gingrich's only primary victories came in South Carolina and in his old home state of Georgia. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is expected to suspend his presidential campaign next Tuesday and throw his...

April 25, 2012  |   Mitt Romney celebrates with supporters Tuesday night in Manchester, N.H. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. With his sweep of five states Tuesday, Mitt Romney seized the GOP nomination and made clear that his focus would now be directed squarely...

April 24, 2012  |   Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, left, and Mitt Romney campaign in Aston, Pa., on Monday. Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images. While the GOP primary battle is all but over, Mitt Romney remains 447 delegates short of the total needed to...

April 23, 2012  |   President Obama speaks at a campaign event last week at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. Poll after poll has shown that no single issue outranks the economy in the minds of voters...

March 20, 2012  |   Updated 10:04 p.m. ET | Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney scored a decisive victory Tuesday in the Illinois primary, helping cement his status as the Republican Party's frontrunner and adding to his lead in the race to the 1,144 delegates...

March 16, 2012  |   Mitt Romney released a new television ad Friday in Illinois hammering Rick Santorum as an "economic lightweight." You can watch the ad here or below: The new spot comes ahead of Tuesday's primary in the Land of Lincoln, where 69...

March 14, 2012  |   President Barack Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House last week. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. What a difference a day makes. In Tuesday's Morning Line, we wrote about the New York Times/CBS News poll that...

February 29, 2012  |   Mitt Romney speaks during a Feb. 29 campaign rally at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio; photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images BEXLEY, Ohio | There was nothing subtle about Mitt Romney's pitch to Ohio voters Wednesday. The former Massachusetts governor...

December 30, 2011  |   At a campaign stop in Atlantic, Iowa, Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul stopped briefly to talk with NewsHour Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff. Photo by Quinn Bowman. A new NBC News-Marist poll released Friday confirms the state of play in...

December 29, 2011  |   Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney greets voters during a campaign stop in Muscatine, Iowa, Wednesday. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. The tumultuous Republican presidential race experienced its latest shake-up Wednesday with the release of new CNN/Time/ORC International polls showing...

December 28, 2011  |   Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney greets supporters and poses for photographs during a rally at the Hotel Blackhawk Tuesday in Davenport, Iowa. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Mitt Romney has worked hard all year to keep expectations for the...

December 21, 2011  |   Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks during a townhall meeting in Hiawatha, Iowa, on December 19, 2011. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. There is a sense of deja vu with the Republican presidential race this week, as a third new...

December 20, 2011  |   Mitt Romney , listens as Newt Gingrich answers a question during the Fox News Channel debate at the Sioux City Convention Center on December 15, 2011 in Sioux City, Iowa. Photo by Getty Images. Two weeks before the Iowa...

December 19, 2011  |   House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday rejected a bipartisan Senate measure to extend the payroll tax cut for two months. Photo by Roll Call/ Getty Images. House Speaker John Boehner revealed Sunday that House Republicans would reject a bipartisan...

December 16, 2011  |   The seven Republican presidential contenders debated Thursday in Iowa. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. The bell never rang for the Newt Gingrich vs. Mitt Romney fight many expected at Thursday night's debate in Sioux City, Iowa, as the two...

December 15, 2011  |   Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid arrives for a press conference about extending the payroll tax cut. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The federal government is again facing the threat of a shutdown because of a partisan divide in Congress....

December 14, 2011  |   Mitt Romney speaks in Iowa. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. Mitt Romney is turning what has been one of his biggest political liabilities -- lingering doubts about his consistency on key issues -- into a line of attack on...

December 13, 2011  |   GOP presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich share a moment at Saturday's debate in Iowa. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. The rivalry between Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney veered from political differences to personal attacks Monday, marking a...

December 12, 2011  |   President Obama watches as Navy fans celebrate a touchdown in the Midshipmen's 27-21 win over Army at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., on Saturday. Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images. As President Obama capped off a week of making his...

December 9, 2011  |   The polls have crowned Newt Gingrich as Republican front-runner, and now his GOP rivals have recognized the coronation by sharpening their attacks on the former House speaker. The latest assault came Friday in the form of a web video...

December 7, 2011  |   Texas Gov. Rick Perry released a new television ad Wednesday aimed at courting socially conservative voters, a key voting bloc in next month's Iowa caucuses. In the 30-second spot, entitled "Strong," Perry accuses President Obama of launching a "war on...

December 7, 2011  |   President Obama speaks about economic struggles of the middle class Tuesday in Osawatomie, Kan. Photo by Julie Denesha/Getty Images. On Tuesday, President Obama called the debate about restoring fairness the "defining issue of our time." And, if the president...

December 6, 2011  |   Newt Gingrich speaks to reporters Monday following his meeting with Donald Trump, left, in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Another day, and two more polls affirming Newt Gingrich's position as the new front-runner for the Republican...

December 5, 2011  |   Former House speaker Newt Gingrich attends a forum on manufacturing in Pella, Iowa, last month. Photo by Steve Pope/Getty Images. One month out, there is a clear front-runner for the Iowa Republican caucuses: Newt Gingrich. The former House speaker...

December 3, 2011  |   file photo; Win McNamee/Getty Images Herman Cain announced Saturday he was suspending his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, citing the "painful price" sexual harassment and extramarital affair allegations have had on his family. "With a lot of prayer...

December 2, 2011  |   Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain waits to speak at a November news conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images. Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said Friday he would make an announcement Saturday about the future of his...

December 2, 2011  |   Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks in Bluffton, S.C., as part of a three-day swing through the state. Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images. Newt Gingrich is looking to bring some certainty to a Republican presidential race that has been anything...

December 1, 2011  |   The reverberations from Mitt Romney's recent interview on Fox News are still being felt -- and the manner in which they settle could go a long way toward determining the shape of the GOP race in the coming weeks....

November 29, 2011  |   The Iowa caucuses may be five weeks away, but the way that Democrats and Mitt Romney's campaign clashed on Monday, it seemed as if the general election were around the corner. The brouhaha began with the release of a...

November 28, 2011  |   Republican presidential hopeful and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife Callista sign books Friday after speaking at a Hilton Hotel in Naples, Fla. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. By picking up a coveted newspaper endorsement over the...

November 21, 2011  |   The bipartisan co-chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction announced late Monday that the group had failed to reach an agreement. "We are deeply disappointed that we have been unable to come to a bipartisan deficit reduction...

November 18, 2011  |   Former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Photo by Mark Hirsch/Getty Images. When Newt Gingrich was preparing to launch a run for the White House earlier this year, part of the delay was reportedly his need to unwind the financial entanglements...

November 17, 2011  |   Energy Secretary Steven Chu prepares to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill Feb. 16, 2011. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told a House panel Thursday that politics did not...

November 17, 2011  |   Lawmakers will ask Energy Secretary Steven Chu about the $535 million federal loan received by solar company Solyndra before it went bankrupt and laid off its workers. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Energy Secretary Steven Chu appears set to...

November 16, 2011  |   Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, co-chair of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, was not optimistic of a deal on Tuesday. Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call. After another day of private meetings and negotiations on Capitol Hill, the...

November 15, 2011  |   It was Rick Perry's "oops" moment in last week's Republican presidential debate in Michigan that drew attention away from Herman Cain and the sexual harassment allegations that have engulfed his campaign. Monday, Cain let Perry off the hook, stepping...

November 14, 2011  |   The Joint Deficit Reduction Committee is facing a Nov. 23 deadline to reduce deficits by at least $1.5 trillion over the next decade. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Time is running out for the bipartisan Congressional supercommittee charged with...

September 30, 2011  |   Miami voters weigh in on a 2010 primary. Photo by AFP/Getty. Florida is now first on the 2012 calendar, but it's not expected to stay there for very long. The Sunshine State Friday set its primary for Jan. 31,...

September 22, 2011  |   GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry speaks to reporters in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Wednesday. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images ORLANDO, FLA. | Seven of the nine Republican presidential contenders who will take to the debate stage in Orlando Thursday...

August 26, 2011  |   Mitt Romney, shown here campaigning in New Hampshire, is still popular in Florida. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images. This week saw Texas Gov. Rick Perry leapfrog Mitt Romney in the national polls, but the former...

August 25, 2011  |   Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the leading Republican presidential candidate, according to a new poll. File photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Move over Mitt Romney, there's a new front-runner in town, and his name is Rick Perry. The Texas...

August 24, 2011  |   Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush listens to the president speak about education at a Miami high school in March. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Democrats may have used the strategy to win elections in 2006 and 2008, but Jeb...

July 26, 2011  |   Embattled Rep. David Wu, D-Ore., announced Tuesday he will resign amid allegations he had a sexual encounter with an 18-year-old woman. The decision by the seven-term congressman comes a day after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called on the Ethics...

July 26, 2011  |   President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner address the nation. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, both delivered primetime television addresses to the nation Monday night appealing to the American people to see it their way in...

July 25, 2011  |   House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, arrives at the Capitol on Sunday. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images. Congressional leaders and President Obama aren't closer to a deal on raising the debt limit Monday morning after talks collapsed late Friday and...

July 1, 2011  |   An American flag hangs at the entrance to Union Station in Washington, D.C., for 4th of July celebrations. Photo By Douglas Graham/Roll Call. Washington's debt talk theater delivered an encore presentation Thursday, with Obama administration officials and Republicans in...

June 30, 2011  |   President Obama holds a news conference Wednesday at the White House. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The view down Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. Capitol to the White House might seem a bit longer than normal Thursday following the...

June 29, 2011  |   President Obama held his last news conference in March. Photo by Pete Souza/White House. Watch President Obama's News Conference Live at 11:30 a.m. ET The last time President Obama held a major news conference, a devastating earthquake and tsunami...

June 28, 2011  |   Campaign paraphernalia cover the wall in the famous Hamburg Inn No. 2 in Iowa City. Famous for its "Coffee Bean Caucus," it's a must-stop location for presidential hopefuls. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. The Iowa caucuses are a little...

June 27, 2011  |   Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., is set to kickoff her run for the GOP presidential nomination. Photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call. The 2012 GOP presidential field will get a serious jolt of Tea Party fervor Monday when Minnesota Rep. Michele...

June 24, 2011  |   President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. File photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. With five weeks to go before the U.S. government could begin defaulting on its financial obligations, it's now up to President Obama and House Speaker John...

June 23, 2011  |   President Obama's address Wednesday night is shown in the White House press briefing room. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. By seeking the middle ground in unwinding U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, President Obama now finds himself on an island....

June 22, 2011  |   President Obama visits troops at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in December 2010. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. It's been a year-and-a-half since President Obama addressed the nation in prime time about the war effort in Afghanistan. When he...

June 21, 2011  |   Jon Huntsman plans to declare his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call. One truism of American presidential politics is that biography is not destiny. But biography is a key gateway for a...

May 26, 2011  |   The head of the Democratic National Committee said Thursday that a recent string of special election victories "really bode well" for the party's chances in 2012. Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, speaking to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the...

May 16, 2011  |   Donald Trump attends South Florida Tax Day Tea Party Rally on April 16, 2011 in Boca Raton, Fla. Billionaire real estate tycoon and reality TV star Donald Trump announced Monday he will not run...

April 28, 2011  |   President Obama makes a statement on the release of his long-form birth certificate on Wednesday. Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images. For years now, conspiracy theorists have stoked false rumors about President Obama's place of birth. On Wednesday, the president...

April 27, 2011  |   Donald Trump New Hampshire will get its first look at Donald Trump as a potential presidential candidate when the real estate tycoon and reality TV star visits the Granite State Wednesday. Trump reportedly has eight stops...

April 26, 2011  |   Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour speaks at a spaghetti dinner in Tiffin, Iowa, last month. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. Surprise. That one word, more than any other, summed up the reaction to Haley Barbour's decision not to run...

April 25, 2011  |   Tulips bloom in front of the Capitol. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call. When House Republicans voted on their 2012 budget the Friday before the congressional recess, there figured to be plenty of stories over the course of the following...

April 19, 2011  |   President Obama poses with the Air Force Academy football team during the Commander in Chief's Trophy presentation Monday at the White House. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. It's days like Tuesday when President Obama might be thinking, "Can't the...

April 18, 2011  |   President Obama has called for reducing the deficit by cutting spending and raising taxes on the wealthy. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama put forward a plan last week to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the...

April 15, 2011  |   Republicans averted an embarrassing loss on their preferred budget proposal Friday after Democrats employed a procedural tactic hoping to expose divisions between House conservatives and their leaders. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Friday morning that he expected "a resounding...

March 21, 2011  |   Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty said Monday he has formed a presidential exploratory committee, making him the first major Republican candidate to take an official step toward running for the GOP nomination in 2012. Pawlenty broke the news to supporters...

March 17, 2011  |   Updated at 6:25 p.m. with NPR statement | The House of Representatives approved a measure Thursday to bar federal funding of National Public Radio. The bill also prohibits public radio stations from using federal grant money to pay dues...

March 4, 2011  |   Protesters remain in the Wisconsin capitol Thursday as Gov. Scott Walker announced impending layoffs. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images. It appears the stalemate in Wisconsin has reached a tipping point. Republican Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday that he would...

March 3, 2011  |   Newt Gingrich is entering the "exploratory phase" of a 2012 presidential bid. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced Thursday he had launched a website to explore a possible presidential bid....

February 22, 2011  |   Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., in Feburary. John Thune is going to pass on 2012. The second-term South Dakota senator announced Tuesday he would not seek the...

February 15, 2011  |   To hear Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tell it, Democrats and Republicans are still missing the big picture when it comes to the country's fiscal situation. "I think both sides haven't woken up to the enormity of the problem," Paul told...

February 10, 2011  |   Former House speaker Newt Gingrich will be attending the Conservative Political Action Conference. Photo by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. The list of confirmed speakers for this year's Conservative Political Action Conference set to get underway Thursday reads like...

February 1, 2011  |   View of Charlotte, N.C.; Creative Commons photo courtesy Willamor Media In 2008, President Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win North Carolina in more than two decades, and with Tuesday's announcement that the 2012 Democratic National Convention...

January 31, 2011  |   In this White House photo taken Friday, President Obama talks on the phone with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as Vice President Joe Biden and the national security team listen in the background. Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty...

January 27, 2011  |   Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul started off Thursday's first meeting of the Senate Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill with this question: "Is the Tea Party still a force in America?" The Republican's query was met with a roar in the...

January 21, 2011  |   Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., announced Friday he was skipping this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, siding with critics who feel the annual gathering of conservative activists has become too friendly with pro-gay and libertarian groups. "With leading conservative organizations not...

January 21, 2011  |   President Obama has picked Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, to head a new jobs panel. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. President Obama has tapped General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt to head a new outside economic...

January 13, 2011  |   Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's whirlwind media tour swept through Washington, D.C., Thursday, the city he hopes to make his home a little more than two years from now. "I'm seriously considering it," Pawlenty said of a potential 2012...

December 2, 2010  |   Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, one of 12 sitting lawmakers on President Obama's bipartisan fiscal commission, announced Thursday he would oppose the panel's proposal when it is expected to come up for a final vote Friday. Ryan, the...

November 23, 2010  |   President Obama on the South Lawn of the White House. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. When it comes to who they want setting the agenda next year in the 112th Congress, Americans are just about evenly split between President...

November 22, 2010  |   Last year, President Obama pardoned a turkey named Courage, above, who got a trip to Disneyland. This year's turkey will go to George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia. Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images. This holiday week seems to...

November 19, 2010  |   "The main thing we've learned is that we're united in recognizing that we have to protect the middle class," Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Thursday after the Democrats' caucus meeting. Photo by Bill Clark/Roll Call. Democratic leaders announced Thursday...

November 17, 2010  |   A worker performs maintenance on the dome of the Capitol earlier this week. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. House Democrats and Republicans plan Wednesday to choose their leaders for the 112th Congress, with the results likely to reveal both...

November 16, 2010  |   Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks through the halls of the U.S. Capitol on Monday. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. After years of using earmarks to send federal money to Kentucky, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced Monday that he...

November 15, 2010  |   Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. File photo by Getty Images. As dozens of newly-elected members of Congress arrive this week for freshmen orientation, one veteran lawmaker begins his fight to save his job. Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., after months of...

November 12, 2010  |   Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. File photo; Getty Images. What a difference a day makes. On Wednesday, outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the draft proposal released by the co-chairs of the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility...

November 11, 2010  |   National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform co-chairmen Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Voters sent a clear message in this month's midterm elections: They want their elected officials to do something about...

November 4, 2010  |   Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Photo by Douglas Graham/Roll Call via Getty Images. Despite losing the speaker's gavel in an election that saw Republicans gain at least 60 seats and take control of the House of Representatives, Rep. Nancy Pelosi...

November 2, 2010  |   Here is a quick early look at turnout in some of the key states we're watching this Election Day: KENTUCKY Per Les Fugate, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State: "Turnout across the state is steady, and for a midterm election that's...

October 7, 2010  |   Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway talks to Senate candidate Rand Paul and Sen. Mitch McConnell at the 130th annual Fancy Farm picnic in Fancy Farm, Ky. Photo by Gage Skidmore; Flickr Creative Commons LOUISVILLE, Ky. | Election Day is...

September 24, 2010  |   American flags stand at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Senate Democratic leaders announced Thursday they were deserting plans to extend tax cuts until after November's midterm elections when the political atmosphere in...

September 23, 2010  |   Rep. Mike Pence. R-Ind., speaks at Tart Lumber in Sterling, Va., where House Republicans will unveil their "Pledge to America," their agenda for the upcoming 111th Congress. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. House Republican leaders will unveil their "Pledge...

September 17, 2010  |   Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren. File photo/Getty Images. Labor unions and liberal grassroots organizations had made it clear to the White House that having Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren head up the new consumer protection agency created...

September 13, 2010  |   On Sunday, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said he would support renewing tax cuts for the middle class. File photo By Bill Clark/Roll Call via Getty Images. As is often the case in politics, there's the storyline being pushed by...

September 10, 2010  |   President Obama is scheduled to speak to reporters Friday in a nationally televised news conference from the White House. Photo by Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images. It's been more than three months since President Obama has held a solo news conference...

September 8, 2010  |   Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Wednesday that Democrats are running from President Obama "like scalded* dogs," worried that his sagging poll numbers might bring down their campaigns this election year. "If you look at when he goes somewhere, the...

September 8, 2010  |   President Obama and House minority leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. File photo/Getty images. It's not often that a House minority leader's schedule can dictate the president's schedule. But that's precisely what is happening Wednesday. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs...

September 7, 2010  |   President Obama walks to the Oval Office on Monday after returning from a trip to Milwaukee. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images. The new Washington Post/ABC News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls released Tuesday provide a double whammy of...

September 3, 2010  |   The man charged with saving the Democratic majority in the House seems to be providing an opening on a short-term extension for the Bush tax cuts targeted at the wealthiest two percent of Americans. "We know from economists on...

September 2, 2010  |   Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican Carly Fiorina sparred Wednesday in an hour-long debate at St. Mary's College in California that highlighted their stark differences on issues ranging from the economy and climate change to immigration and abortion. The...

September 1, 2010  |   Updated with video 11:00a.m. ET Vice President Biden went further, albeit grudgingly, than President Obama did in his Tuesday night Oval Office address in crediting the surge of troops into Iraq ordered by President George W. Bush in January 2007...

August 31, 2010  |   President Obama travels to Fort Bliss, Texas, on Tuesday morning to meet with troops before delivering a primetime Oval Office address marking the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. According to the White House, "Fort Bliss is...

August 30, 2010  |   President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet the crowd Sunday at Xavier University in New Orleans for a ceremony on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. We'll catch only one glimpse of President...

August 27, 2010  |   When Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., takes the podium at the National Press Club at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday, he'll have two critical missions on his mind: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman is eager to make a...

August 26, 2010  |   The Nevada Senate race between Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Sharron Angle is expected to be one of this year's most talked-about contests. Based on campaign ads released Thursday by both campaigns, it's also looking like it will...

August 26, 2010  |   A group of prominent pastors and Christian leaders have signed onto a letter urging "public officials, faith leaders, and the media to offer no further support or airtime to those who misrepresent and call into question the President's Christian...

August 25, 2010  |   Officials are still counting votes Wednesday morning in Alaska, where a political upset is brewing with incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski trailing attorney Joe Miller in the Republican primary. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Miller had 51.46 percent of...

August 24, 2010  |   House Minority Leader John Boehner and Vice President Joe Biden engaged in a war of words Tuesday over the Obama administration's efforts to revive the nation's economy. In a speech to the City Club of Cleveland, Boehner called on President...

August 24, 2010  |   Voters in five states head to the polls Tuesday for primaries in Alaska, Arizona, Florida and Vermont and a runoff in Oklahoma. POLITICO's Charles Mahtesian and Alexander Burns break down the 10 things to watch, including challenges from the...

August 23, 2010  |   With President Obama vacationing on Martha's Vineyard this week, Vice President Joe Biden will hit the road on behalf of the administration with three Midwest stops on Monday, beginning with an 11 a.m. EDT speech in Indianapolis to the...

August 6, 2010  |   The Labor Department released its much-awaited monthly jobs report Friday, showing 131,000 jobs were lost in July, more than economists had expected. Both the unemployment rate, at 9.5 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, 14.6 million, remained unchanged. Private...

August 5, 2010  |   The Senate is expected to approve Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court on Thursday. Kagan would join Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor as the third woman on the high court, the most in its history. While...

August 4, 2010  |   The chorus of Senate Republicans calling for congressional hearings into the constitutional amendment that grants citizenship to people born in the United States grew louder Tuesday. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Congress "ought to have some hearings and take...

August 3, 2010  |   Voters head to the polls in Michigan, Missouri and Kansas for primary elections Tuesday that will help shape the November playing field. The nail-biter race of the day is the marquee contest for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Michigan. Rep....

August 2, 2010  |   The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., will face a public trial for her alleged role in steering federal bailout funds to a bank with ties to her husband. The charges against the 10-term congresswoman were...

August 2, 2010  |   With all the focus on a troubled American military effort in Afghanistan, a battered and stubborn economy at home, and Republican enthusiasm on the rise, it seems like a long time ago that American politics of 2006 and 2007 were...

July 30, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> It might go down as the shortest joyride in history. President Obama got behind the wheel of a black Chevrolet Volt, GM's new electric car, and drove it a distance of about 10 feet, topping out at...

July 30, 2010  |   House members head home Friday for the August recess and to begin the campaign season in earnest. But there is much unfinished business that prevents Democrats from wrapping a bow around their desired tidy messaging. One of the most...

July 29, 2010  |   Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., has still not reached a deal with the House ethics committee to avoid a public trial of sorts, as many of his fellow Democrats had hoped he would. The New York Post reports that the main...

July 28, 2010  |   President Obama will meet with small business owners at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, N.J., this afternoon, hoping to put a human face on his effort to get the Senate to pass a small business jobs bill before the...

July 27, 2010  |   Senate Democrats rolled out a scaled-back energy bill Tuesday afternoon that responds to the Gulf oil leak and incentivizes people to make energy-efficient renovations to their homes. A draft version of the legislation, released by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,...

July 27, 2010  |   Two events on Capitol Hill Tuesday will keep the intensifying debate over the Afghanistan war effort in the spotlight. The House of Representatives may vote as early as today on the slimmed down $60 billion war supplemental bill passed by...

July 26, 2010  |   The release of 92,000 classified reports by the website WikiLeaks paints a familiar and bleak picture of just how difficult and convoluted achieving success in Afghanistan will be for the American military. These reports will shine a bright light on...

July 14, 2010  |   The voices of senators expressing growing concerns about the Vietnam War more than four decades ago were brought to life Wednesday with the release of more than 1,000 pages of previously classified testimony and transcripts by the Foreign Relations Committee....

July 9, 2010  |   ESPN's hourlong special on LeBron James' free agency choice was called "The Decision." To Cleveland fans, it will go down as "The Betrayal." At 9:28 p.m. EST Thursday, the NBA superstar announced, "In this fall, I'm going to take...