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  • ** FILE ** Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is shown in this June 24, 2010, file photo. (AP Photo/Louie Traub)

    Pelosi stumps for Democrats as GOP fires away

    The big political bull's-eye on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's back isn't keeping her from campaigning for Democratic candidates in several states, even if she avoids some of the most conservative regions.


  • Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and President Barack Obama prepare to leave the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 13, 2010, after Obama signed the Southwest Border Security Bill. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Napolitano: Now with 'enough' border resources, time to reform

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Friday said the administration has "enough" resources to secure the border now that President Obama signed into law a $600 million border security spending bill, and she said Congress must now act on a larger overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.


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Karen Moran of West Palm Beach, a member of the "tea party," tries to prohibit Everett Wilkinson, chairman of the South Florida Tea Party, from heckling GOP gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott on Thursday in West Palm Beach.

    McCollum grabs lead in Florida polls

    Florida's gubernatorial race continues to surprise, as a new poll shows state Attorney General Bill McCollum - whose campaign had slumped for months - with a slim lead for the Republican nomination over former front-runner and millionaire Rick Scott.


  • Democrats seek to grab seats from 'wacky' hopefuls

    President Obama's Democrats claim to see a silver lining in the Republicans' choice of political novices, sometimes mistake-prone, for critical Senate races.


  • PROVIDED BY THE 2012 TAMPA BAY HOST COMMITTEE 
An apparent minaret in the logo of the 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee for the Republican National Committee is part of a famous 1891 hotel.

    Inside the Beltway

    Oh, the Republican Party is in disarray. Oh, the Republicans have no leadership.


  • Political Scene

    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he cannot understand why Hispanics would vote for Republicans, a remark that drew immediate criticism from Republicans.


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Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, Illinois Democrat, departs a federal courthouse in Washington on April 9, 1996, after pleading guilty to two counts of mail fraud. He was sternly told by a judge that he brought "a measure of disgrace" to Congress. Rostenkowski was immediately sentenced to 17 months in prison and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

    Dan Rostenkowski, congressman downed by scandal, dies at 82

    Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Chicago Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82.


  • ** FILE ** Former Illinois Rep. Dan Rostenkowsi (right) and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale discuss the legacy of the late Chicago politician Richard J. Daley in 2005 at a 50th-anniversary celebration marking the start of Daley's long tenure as mayor. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

    Former Ill. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski dies at 82

    Former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, the Illinois Democrat who became the leading architect of congressional tax policy in the Reagan era but later went to federal prison for corruption, died Wednesday, a family friend said. He was 82.


  • From top left; George W. Bush appears on NBC's "Deal or No Deal," Bill Clinton stops by the "Arsenio Hall Show" and President Barack Obama on "The View." (View photo ABC via Associated Press)

    The List: TV shows with presidential appeal

    We look at past presidents, and presidential candidates, who have appeared on popular television shows.


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