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President Hamid Karzai chats with President Barack Obama during the start of the dinner at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 28, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
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President Barack Obama participates in a roundtable discussion and lunch with local residents at Combs Pier in Gulfport, Miss., June 14, 2010. Participants pictured, from left, are National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, hotel co-owner Missy Bennett, restaurant owner Scott Weinberg, Marsha Barbour, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, and Gulfport Mayor George Schloegel. This was the President's fourth trip to the Gulf Coast to assess the ongoing response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
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** FILE ** President Obama listens as his nominee for interior secretary, REI Chief Executive Officer Sally Jewell, speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013. (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama and Oval Office Valet Raymond Rogers light candles on a birthday cake for NSC Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Dec. 2, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.
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** FILE ** Members of the United Nations Security Council vote for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, during a meeting at U.N. headquarters on March 7, 2013. (Associated Press)
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Free Syrian Army fighters stand next to United Nations Disengagement Observer vehicles in the southern province of Daraa, Syria, near the Golan Heights, on Wednesday, March 6, 2013, in an image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News and authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. Clashes between Syrian troops and rebel fighters flared on Thursday near an area where armed fighters linked to the opposition abducted 21 U.N. peacekeepers a day earlier. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., leaves the floor of the Senate after his filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to be CIA director on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Thursday, March 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Sen. Mark Begich, Alaska Democrat, Sen. Mark L. Pryor, Arkansas Democrat, Sen. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, (from left) discuss their bill to keep guns from being legally purchased by people with serious mental health problems. (Associated Press)
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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, is now “the man to beat in 2016,” a Republican strategist said, after delaying a vote Wednesday on CIA nominee John O. Brennan with an old-style one-man filibuster. (Associated Press)
