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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, State Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, Republican candidate for Attorney General, gestures during a new conference at the Capitol Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, in Richmond, Va. The closest statewide race in modern Virginia political history is unlikely to end Monday, Nov. 25, when the State Board of Elections certifies the votes for attorney general and other contests in the Nov. 5 election. The State Board of Elections puts Democrat Mark Herring with a 165-vote edge over Obenshain out 2.2 million ballots cast for attorney general. While he hasn’t said so, Obenshain has signaled he will seek a recount, and he could press the issue to the General Assembly if he wants to take it to the limits of the law. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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In this Nov. 21, 2013, photo, President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. As Democrats watched Senate Republicans use filibuster powers to thwart more and more of Obama’s agenda and nominees, they asked themselves, How much worse can it get? Last week they reached a breaking point. GOP obstruction had made a mockery of democracy, party leaders concluded. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
