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Posted: 3/30/2013 5:08:41 PM EST
FILE – In this March 15, 2013 file photo Republican governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, which includes governors who lead some of the nation’s poorest and unhealthiest states. “We will not expand Medicaid on President Obama’s watch. We will not expand Medicaid ever,” Haley told the audience at CPAC. Medicaid is financed mostly by Congress, with state’s putting up match funding. Obama’s law mandated that states open Medicaid to everyone with household income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty rate, but the Supreme Court ruled states must have a choice. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 9:18:32 AM EST
In this photo taken March 25, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, speaks at a town hall meeting in Montgomery, Ohio. Here in Cincinnati's suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington 500 miles away. If any Republican House members might be open to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, Chabot would seem near the top. Yet he toes an unyielding conservative line on virtually every big issue. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 9:18:32 AM EST
In this photo taken March 25, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, takes time after his town hall meeting to answer questions one-on-one with constituents in Montgomery, Ohio. Here in the Cincinnati suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away. If any Republican House members might be open to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, Chabot would seem near the top. Yet he toes an unyielding conservative line on virtually every big issue. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 9:18:32 AM EST
In this photo taken March 25, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, listens to constituents' questions at a town hall meeting in Montgomery, Ohio. Here in the Cincinnati suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away. If any Republican House members might be open to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, Chabot would seem near the top. Yet he toes an unyielding conservative line on virtually every big issue. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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Posted: 3/30/2013 9:18:32 AM EST
In this photo taken March 25, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, uses a chart to talk about the U.S. budget deficit during a town hall meeting with constituents in Montgomery, Ohio. Here in the Cincinnati suburbs, where people tend to be polite, one finds seeds of the bitter partisanship that gnaws at Washington, 500 miles away. If any Republican House members might be open to compromise with President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers, Chabot would seem near the top. Yet he toes an unyielding conservative line on virtually every big issue. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)
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Posted: 3/29/2013 6:58:17 PM EST
FILE - This July 19, 2011 shows workers with Brandt Logging Company loading pine beetle-killed trees on a truck near Frisco, Colo. Colorado is among Western states that could be forced to repay millions of dollars in federal funds locked up in the national budget debate. U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, a Republican from Colorado, said the Obama administration has advised the state that money from timber sales and mineral royalties are subject to the budget debate and the state could receive a bill for repayment of funds already distributed to counties. Colorado stands to lose $8.4 million from the federal mineral royalties paid to states, and $720,000 from timber sales, Tipton's office said Friday, March 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
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Posted: 3/29/2013 12:58:27 PM EST
FILE - In this May 4, 2010 file photo, then-Indiana Congressional candidate Luke Messer arriving at a polling place in Carmel, Ind. Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are having to deal with longer lines and fewer prospects of a raise. Such are the indignities thrust upon the people who brought the country $85 billion in automatic government spending cuts this month. Messer, a freshman Republican from Indiana, said he hired fewer people when he came to Washington because "we essentially began the term knowing there was a high possibility of a sequester". (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
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Posted: 3/29/2013 7:51:55 AM EST
Policemen arrive at the Malindi police station where suspected bodies of six members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) are displayed in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi, March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga
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Posted: 3/29/2013 7:51:55 AM EST
Coast Provincial Police Officer Aggrey Adoli addresses the public following the killing of six members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi, March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Peter Imbote
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Posted: 3/28/2013 10:53:22 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, left, greets former Charleston County councilman Curtis Bostic before a debate in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, March 28, 2013. The two face each other Tuesday in a runoff for the Republican nomination for South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Posted: 3/28/2013 9:13:43 PM EST
CORRECTS TITLE OF ARTICLE - FILE - This 2006 file photo released by his staff shows Michigan Republican national committeeman David Agema, a former state representative from Grandville. He said Thursday, March 28, 2013, that he would not resign despite calls for him to step down for posting an anti-gay article on his Facebook page. He posted an article, "Everyone Should Know These Statistics on Homosexuals," that said that gay people "account for half the murders in large cities," citing studies from the 1980s. It also attributed high medical insurance rates to caring for AIDS patients. (AP Photo/Agema staff via The Grand Rapids Press, File)
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Posted: 3/28/2013 5:58:28 PM EST
FILE - This 2006 file photo released by his staff shows Michigan Republican national committeeman David Agema, a former state representative from Grandville. He said Thursday, March 28, 2013, that he would not resign despite calls for him to step down for posting an anti-gay article on his Facebook page. He posted an article, "Everyone Should Know These Statistics About Homosexuals," that said that gay people "account for half the murders in large cities," citing studies from the 1980s. It also attributed high medical insurance rates to caring for AIDS patients. (AP Photo/Agema staff via The Grand Rapids Press, File)
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Posted: 3/28/2013 10:22:34 AM EST
U.S. Republican lawmakers Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R) and Aaron Schock pose for a picture with a garland made of cotton thread on the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi during their visit to Gandhi Ashram in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Amit Dave
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Posted: 3/28/2013 10:22:34 AM EST
U.S. Republican lawmakers Cynthia Lummis (in red) and Aaron Schock (wearing a garland) arrive at the Gandhi Ashram in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Amit Dave
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Posted: 3/28/2013 10:11:00 AM EST
U.S. Republican lawmaker Aaron Schock (2nd R) spins cotton on a wheel during his visit to Gandhi Ashram in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad March 28, 2013. REUTERS/Amit Dave
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Posted: 3/27/2013 7:13:26 PM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2008 file photo, actress Ashley Judd, a Kentucky native, speaks at a Democratic get-out-the-vote rally in Louisville, Ky. Judd announced Wednesday she won't run for U.S. Senate in Kentucky against Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, saying she had given serious thought to a campaign but decided her responsibilities and energy need to be focused on her family. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon, File)
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Posted: 3/27/2013 3:43:21 PM EST
Alexis Maldonado works in a 5th grade computer lab at Van Buren Elementary School, Thursday, March 14, 2013, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. As his Republican peers in other states search for ways to cut public school funding, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is charting a different course. Branstad, who was elected in 2010 as part of a resurgent GOP, has made proposals many in the GOP would sneer at: raising minimum teacher salaries and offering incentive pay for teachers who take on more responsibilities _ all by tapping $187 million in new school funding. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Posted: 3/27/2013 1:08:24 PM EST
FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican Party’s search for a way back to presidential success in 2016 is drawing a striking array of personalities and policy options. It’s shaping up as a wide-open self-reassessment by the GOP. Some factions are trying to tug the party left or right. Others argue over pragmatism versus defiance. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 3/27/2013 1:08:24 PM EST
FILE - In this March 7, 2013 file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican Party’s search for a way back to presidential success in 2016 is drawing a striking array of personalities and policy options. It’s shaping up as a wide-open self-reassessment by the GOP. Some factions are trying to tug the party left or right. Others argue over pragmatism versus defiance. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Posted: 3/27/2013 3:18:41 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2013 file photo, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, center, accompanied by Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, left, and Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, right, speaks in Richmond, Va. Virginia is conducting nothing short of a grand political experiment, testing whether a tea party favorite can carry a closely divided state. If Ken Cuccinelli succeeds, he will undercut Republican moderates’ claims that hard-right ideologies are hurting the party, and undoubtedly intensify a debate already roiling the GOP. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
