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Rep. Kristi Noem, South Dakota Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, gives two thumbs up while addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Frank Enten of Bethesda, Md., sells political memorabilia, including a "Goldwater for President" button (foreground), at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Rep. Raul Labrador, Idaho Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Martha Stamp of Wakefield, R.I., applauds as Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers (center), Kentucky Republican, listens to Kentucky Senate President David Williams as state House Speaker Greg Stumbo sits at left before their testimony before a state Senate committee in Frankfort, Ky., on Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. All three spoke in support of a bill that would require a prescription for certain cold medicines because of their use in making methamphetamine. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
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Anti-government protesters demonstrate in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Mississippi State guard Shaun Smith (10) drives to the basket as Arkansas guard Rotnei Clarke (15) attempts to block during their NCAA college basketball game in Starkville, Miss., Wednesday Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Kerry Smith)
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Cheering protesters react as high-ranking Egyptian Army Gen. Hassan El-Rueni, unseen, addresses the continuing anti-government demonstration in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt Thursday, Feb 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Military personnel salute President Obama as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, en route to Marquette, Mich., where he is promoting high-speed wireless Internet access for almost all Americans. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Members of Egypt's military supreme council attend a meeting in this image taken from TV Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak will meet the demands of protesters, military and ruling party officials said Thursday in the strongest indication yet that Egypt's longtime president may be about to give up power and that the armed forces were seizing control. (AP Photo/Nile TV via APTN)
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Egyptian lawyers in black robes stream into Cairo's Tahrir Square, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Labor unrest across the country gave powerful momentum to Egypt's wave of anti-government protests. (AP Photo/ Mohammed Abou Zaid)
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Vehicles carrying coffins head to the Pakistan army training camp in Mardan near Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked soldiers during morning exercises at a Pakistani army training camp killing 31 troops and injuring dozens others, police and the military said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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"Many kinds of violent motivations threaten our security," said Janet Napolitano, defending her department's actions to Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security during a hearing Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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Former Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
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House Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, flanked by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia (right) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California, said they found some common ground with President Obama at a private lunch Wednesday. (Associated Press)
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MOVERS: Republican leaders in the House leave a luncheon with President Obama on Wednesday. From left are: Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California and Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia. They discussed spending and the national debt. (Associated Press)
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Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams, shown here greeting supporters at an election night party on Nov. 2, says he has grown weary of a new corps of conservative activists. (Associated Press)
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Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld released a large cache of unclassified documents relating to his decades-long government career. (Associated Press)
