Politics

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President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Pakistani tribesmen carry a casket of a victim of NATO oil tanker explosion for a funeral prayer in Landi Kotal near Afghan border in Pakistan on Saturday, May 21, 2011. A tanker carrying oil for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded Saturday in northwestern Pakistan as people tried to siphon off some of its fuel, an official said. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)

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** FILE ** In this April 2, 2009, file photo U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the G20 Summit closing press conference in London. Obama departs Sunday, May 22, 2011, for his eighth trip to Europe as president. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

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** FILE ** Atlanta businessman Herman Cain speaks at the Georgia Republican Party convention in Macon, Ga., on Saturday, May 14, 2011. (AP Photo/The Macon Telegraph, Grant Blankenship)

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** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks to CIA employees at the CIA Headquarters, Friday, May 20, 2011, in Langley, Va. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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** FILE ** President Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn listens on May 19, 2011, to proceedings in his case in New York state Supreme Court. (Associated Press)

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President Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on May 20, 2011, in the Oval Office at the White House. (Associated Press)

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Syrian army soldiers are seen reinforcing the village of Arida near Talkalakh opposite the Lebanon-Syria border, in Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon, on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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President Obama delivers a speech on the Middle East at the State Department in Washington on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is seated at right, and Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is seen at left. (Associated Press)

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A man, holding up a sign that reads in Spanish "Annul the amnesty right now!!," demonstrates on May 19, 2011, in front of the Congress in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Chamber of Deputies is discussing a law to overturn an amnesty for human rights crimes by the military during Uruguay's 1973-85 dictatorship. (Associated Press)

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A veiled Palestinian woman walks near a television during a speech by President Obama in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday. Mr. Obama endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of a future state and prodded Israel to accept that it can never have a truly peaceful nation that is based on "permanent occupation." (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks to GOP activists in Waterloo, Iowa, on Thursday as part of a three-day visit to the state.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in his office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 18, 2011. When U.S President Barack Obama and Netanyahu meet this week to revive deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, they will do so against a vastly changed Middle East landscape. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Former Virginia governor and former U.S. Sen. George Allen runs a consulting firm, but he is not registered as a lobbyist because he uses former aide Paul Unger as a contractor federal lobbyist who is not a part owner or employee of George Allen Strategies in Alexandria. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)