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Posted: 4/6/2013 9:33:31 AM EST
FILE - In this June 15, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama announces that the U.S. government will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington. Obama promised to overhaul immigration in his first term but never did. In his second term, he's making immigration a priority, and Republicans also appear ready to deal. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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Posted: 4/6/2013 9:33:31 AM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2012, file photo, members of immigration rights organizations, including Casa in Action and Maryland Dream Act, demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington, calling on President Barack Obama to fulfill his promise of passing comprehensive immigration reform. Obama promised to overhaul immigration in his first term but never did. In his second term, he's making immigration a priority, and Republicans also appear ready to deal. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 2:58:30 PM EST
FILE - In this March 12, 2013 file photo, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee accused their GOP colleagues working on a bipartisan immigration bill of operating in secret, saying in a letter Friday, April 5, 2013, that "the time for transparency has come" and pushing for briefings and full hearings before any votes. In response, Rubio, a member of the Senate group developing a sweeping bill that could be released as early as next week, said he agreed on the need for hearings and planned to brief all Senate Republicans next week. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Posted: 4/5/2013 3:33:34 AM EST
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, performs a mock swearing in for Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington as the 113th Congress began. A group of Republicans and Democrats in the House is finalizing a sweeping immigration bill that offers work permits and the eventual prospect of citizenship to millions of people living illegally in the United States, aides say. "We have legislative language that we'll be ready to go forward on, not concepts but actual language," Carter, a leader of the group, said this week on a Texas cable news channel. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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Posted: 4/4/2013 4:18:33 PM EST
FILE - In this March 19, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama stands with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio after they attended a Friends of Ireland luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington. The partisan cease-fire that kept the government running this spring gave birth to hopeful talk of a much larger “grand bargain” that would reduce the federal deficit for years. But such optimism seems to ignore how far apart the two parties remain on key issues. The mutual obstinance disappoints those who felt top Republicans and Democrats were close to a major accord on spending cuts and tax increases in December. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak. File)
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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: 3/29/2013 10:53:33 AM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2011 file photo, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska speaks in Anchorage, Alaska. Young, one of the most senior Republicans in the House, has apologized for using the racial slur “wetbacks” in referring to Hispanic migrant workers. Young, now in his 21st term in the House, said in an interview with Alaska's KRBD radio that when he was young, his father “used 50-60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes” on their California farm. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, File)
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Posted: 3/28/2013 3:08:26 AM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2012 file photo, Matt Sagorski, a volunteer for the campaign of President Barack Obama, walks in a neighborhood with voter registration forms, in Miami. Republicans are moving aggressively to repair their technological shortcomings from the 2012 election, opening a new tech race to counter a glaring weakness against President Barack Obama last year. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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Posted: 3/28/2013 3:08:26 AM EST
FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, Taylor Pineiro, of New York, a deputy field organizer for the Obama campaign, works the phone at a field office in Scranton, Pa., on Election Day. Republicans are moving aggressively to repair their technological shortcomings from the 2012 election, opening a new tech race to counter a glaring weakness against President Barack Obama last year. (AP Photo/Scranton Times & Tribune, Butch Comegys, File) WILKES BARRE TIMES-LEADER OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 3/25/2013 5:33:29 PM EST
FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2009 file photo, Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democratic officials say Johnson intends to announce his retirement on Tuesday, March 26, 2013, a decision that gives Republicans a prime opportunity to pick up a seat in 2014. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
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Posted: 3/22/2013 7:48:35 PM EST
U.S. President Barack Obama's motorcade is pictured as he moves from the White House to Capitol Hill in Washington, March 14, 2013, for meetings with Senate Republicans and House Democrats on the U.S. Budget. REUTERS/Jason Reed
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Posted: 3/22/2013 6:33:25 PM EST
FILE - This April 27, 2005 file photo shows Caitlin J. Halligan, in the Court of Appeals in Albany, N.Y. Obama withdrew his nomination of Halligan to a federal appeals court Friday, March 22, 2013, handing a victory to Republicans in the Senate who twice blocked his pick for the key judicial post. Calling the obstruction by Republicans unjustified and unacceptable, Obama said he agreed to Halligan's request to be pulled from consideration even though she would have served with distinction on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight, File)
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Posted: 3/20/2013 1:53:39 PM EST
FILE - In this March 18, 2013 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate pressed ahead Wednesday on a huge, bipartisan spending bill aimed at keeping the government running through September and ruling out the chance of a government shutdown later this month. The developments in the Senate come as the House resumed debate on the budget for next year and beyond. Republicans are pushing a plan that promises sharp cuts to federal health care programs and domestic agency operating budgets as the price for balancing the budget in a decade. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 3/20/2013 1:22:41 PM EST
A U.S. border patrol parks near the border fence between Mexico and the U.S. as seen from Tijuana February 25, 2013. How effective U.S. border security is in stopping illegal immigration will be vital to convincing mostly Republicans to back the bipartisan reform and accept some of its more ambitious parts, such as creating a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the United States. Picture taken February 25, 2013. To match Feature USA-IMMIGRATION/MEXICO REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
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Posted: 3/19/2013 11:08:36 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford addresses supporters in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, after advancing to the GOP primary runoff in a race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, was one of 16 Republicans running in Tuesday's primary. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 11:08:36 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford addresses supporters in Charleston, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, after advancing to the GOP primary runoff in a race for a vacant South Carolina congressional seat. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, was one of 16 Republicans running in Tuesday's primary. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Teddy Turner, the son of media mogul Ted Turner, speaks with reporters outside a polling place in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Turner is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. One of the other Republicans running is former Gov. Mark Sanford. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Campaign signs line the curb outside a polling place in Mount Pleasant, S.C., on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford speaks with reporters on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a polling place in Charleston, S.C. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
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Posted: 3/19/2013 2:33:35 PM EST
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford votes on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at a polling place in Charleston, S.C. Sanford, trying to make a political comeback, is one of 16 Republicans running Tuesday in the GOP primary in a special election to fill South Carolina's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith).
