Politics

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Sen. Walter A. Stosch (left), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, confers with Senate Majority Leader Thomas K. Norment Jr. during Wednesday's floor session. With adjournment set for Saturday, there is no agreement on a budget. (Associated Press)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said it's been months since he spoke to Jeffrey E. Thompson, a donor to his political campaign, whose home and offices were raided this month as part of a federal investigation. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Rick Santorum, campaigning with his daughter Elizabeth in Lenexa, Kan., wasted no time using the issue of health care mandates against Mitt Romney, his toughest rival in the Republican presidential nominating contests. (Associated Press)

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Mitt Romney was all smiles on Super Tuesday, when he racked up several key victories over Rick Santorum. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses supporters at his Super Tuesday campaign rally in Boston, Tuesday night, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Activist Loretta Nall, founder of the U.S. Marijuana Party, says it was unfair to not include her in the debates. "It's hard to overcome not being on the stage with the other contenders," she says. (Associated Press)

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The New York City-based Rent is 2 Damn High Party - founded by karate expert and Vietnam War veteran Jimmy McMillan, who has run for mayor three times and received 40,000 votes in the state's 2010 gubernatorial election - is inalterably opposed to, well, rent being too damn high. (Associated Press)

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A Canadian Army soldier, mentoring the Afghan National Army, follows a training session of Afghan National Army soldiers at the Kabul Military Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul on Wednesday. The Afghan National Army will be tasked with providing security throughout Afghanistan after the last international troops pull out in 2014. (Associated Press)

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Delegate Neil Parrott , R-Washington Co., speaks during a news conference Thursday, June 30, 2011 in Annapolis, Md. The Republican-led group is trying to repeal the controversial new state law granting new benefits to illegal immigrants and is nearing the signatures required. Also pictured is Delegate Michael Hough, R-Frederick Co. (AP Photo/Gail Burton)

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D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson asks D.C. Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe questions at the John A. Wilson Building in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Chief Ellerbe appeared before the D.C. Council's Committee on the Judiciary. "I never meant to or intended to harass anyone," he said. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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"These are not your grandma's windmills.[They] destroy the environment in the name of saving the environment." - Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican.

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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, Nasteho Hassan Mohyadin, 3, and her mother Farhid Ali Mohamed sit outside their small makeshift tent in a camp for those displaced by last year's famine or by conflict, in Mogadishu, Somalia. A whistleblowing report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

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The dusty streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, are part of the crumbling infrastructure the government is neglecting, despite $58 million in revenue last year. A report by a former Somali government official says that while tens of thousands were suffering and dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services last year. (Associated Press)

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Policemen escort Syed Mohammed Kazmi, linked to last month's bombing of an Israeli diplomat's vehicle, from a local court in New Delhi on Wednesday. The arrest of the Indian journalist is the first apparent breakthrough in an attack that Israel accused Iran of orchestrating. (Associated Press)

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Bo Xilai, party secretary of the western city of Chongqing, speaks during a news conference after a Chongqing delegation meeting of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Saturday, March 6, 2010. Bo is the rare official in China with a strong public personality, which could help him with media and popular attention but might not help him within the upper levels of the conservative, ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)