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Posted: 6/18/2013 4:56:21 PM EST
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 4:56:21 PM EST
Jackelin Alfaro, 4, in a t-shirt that reads "Don't Deport my Dad" sits in the hall with family members outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee hearing will discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 4:56:21 PM EST
The House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 4:56:21 PM EST
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. speak on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, during the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 4:56:21 PM EST
People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:25:52 PM EST
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/18/2013 1:25:52 PM EST
House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 9:41:47 AM EST
In this photo taken May 21, 2013, Senate Finance Committee ranking member, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, listens to testimony at the committee's hearing on the IRS's targeting of applicants for tax exempt status. “The bottom line here is that the IRS can barely manage what it already has to do, and that’s a generous characterization given the targeting of conservative groups,” said Hatch, whose committee oversees the IRS. “Adding Obamacare under the IRS, that can only be described as a looming disaster,” he said. “And now the Democrats are saying we need to give the IRS more money. I’m not sure I’m willing to do that.” (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 9:41:47 AM EST
In this photo taken June 4, 2013, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., asks a question during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the unfair targeting by the IRS of organizations seeking tax-exempt status on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats in Congress said they are growing tired of Republican attempts to repeal the President Barack Obama's health care law. “The American people will see over the next six months the lengths the Republicans will go to destroy the implementation of the Affordable Care Act,” said McDermott. “I’ve expected it from the first day this (IRS) issue came up.” (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 3:36:35 AM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2009, file photo, Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, talks about his trip on Wednesday to Bethel and Hooper Bay in Anchorage, Alaska. Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama’s health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism. Begich, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina will face voters in 2014 for the first time since voting for the Affordable Care Act _ commonly called Obamacare _ three years ago. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 3:36:35 AM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2009, file photo, Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., speaks at a health care news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama’s health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism. Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Landrieu of Louisiana and Kay Hagan of North Carolina will face voters in 2014 for the first time since voting for the Affordable Care Act _ commonly called Obamacare _ three years ago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
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Posted: 6/15/2013 3:36:35 AM EST
FILE - In this June 13, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama is greeted by Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C. as he arrives at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, in Morrisville, N.C. Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed Obama’s health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism. Mark Begich of Alaska, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Hagan will face voters in 2014 for the first time since voting for the Affordable Care Act _ commonly called Obamacare _ three years ago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Posted: 6/12/2013 10:28:37 AM EST
FILE - In this June 11, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speak in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Trailed by controversy, President Barack Obama is pressing ahead with efforts to boost Democrats Wednesday in Boston and Miami, raising questions about whether the second-term president will be more asset or liability to his party in the coming election season. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Posted: 6/8/2013 8:58:31 AM EST
FILE – In this Feb. 6, 2013, file photo Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., right, responds during a Capitol Hill news conference in Washington with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., and Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., about how sequestration will slash the Pentagon budget. Ayotte has quickly become one of her party's most loyal senators, having supported GOP leaders far more frequently than her Northeastern Republican colleagues. That’s politically dangerous in New Hampshire, where independents and Democrats hold considerable sway. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 6/5/2013 10:22:19 PM EST
Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) arrives to meet with House Democrats and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden about a solution for the "fiscal cliff" on Capitol Hill in Washington January 1, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 6/5/2013 9:23:55 AM EST
Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) arrives to meet with House Democrats and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden about a solution for the "fiscal cliff" on Capitol Hill in Washington January 1, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 6/5/2013 9:22:23 AM EST
Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) arrives to meet with House Democrats and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden about a solution for the "fiscal cliff" on Capitol Hill in Washington January 1, 2013. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
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Posted: 6/4/2013 11:56:30 AM EST
FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2013 file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan speaks in Danbury, Conn. Senate Democrats are introducing legislation that would replace the one-sized-fits-all national standards of No Child Left Behind with ones that states write for themselves. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa on Tuesday was ready to announce a bill that drops some of the education law's requirements that critics said were unrealistic, such as a 2014 deadline for students to perform at grade level in math and reading. Instead, states would write their own improvement plans. The proposed system is similar to one Education Secretary Arne Duncan already has in place for 37 states and the District of Columbia. Those states received waivers to the requirements in exchange for customized school improvement plans. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Posted: 6/4/2013 11:56:30 AM EST
FILE - In this March 22, 2013 file photo, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Democrats are introducing legislation that would replace the one-sized-fits-all national standards of No Child Left Behind with ones that states write for themselves. Harkin on Tuesday was ready to announce a bill that drops some of the education law's requirements that critics said were unrealistic, such as a 2014 deadline for students to perform at grade level in math and reading. Instead, states would write their own improvement plans. The proposed system is similar to one Education Secretary Arne Duncan already has in place for 37 states and the District of Columbia. Those states received waivers to the requirements in exchange for customized school improvement plans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 6/3/2013 9:35:58 PM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2011 file photograph, Sen. Frank Lautenberg, right, D-N.J., listens as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie addresses a gathering in Lincoln Park, N.J. Christie faces a significant decision on who should succeed the late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg. For Christie, the choice carries major political implications for his re-election campaign and, perhaps, a future presidential run. Republicans and Democrats alike will be watching Christie’s next moves closely. But for the governor with an independent streak, there’s no telling what he will do. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, file)
