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FILE - In the Feb, 13, 2015, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, stand together at a ceremony before the signing of the bill authorizing expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline, at the Capitol in Washington. Boehner and McConnell are facing a dilemma. After winning control of both congressional chambers, Republican leaders vowed to keep the government funded and to block President Barack Obama from overhauling immigration policies. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, did not support a plan proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican to avert a shutdown. He called the about-face by GOP senators "a mistake."
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on message: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will speak at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, but many Republicans say that Mr. Bush will have a hard time winning over the party's more conservative wing due to his support for Common Core education standards and advocating a pathway to citizenship for most illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky accompanied by Sen. John Thune, South Dakota Republican, right, meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, to talk about his move to disentangle one of two contested immigration measures from the Homeland Security budget and debate the issues separately, as the Senate faces an impasse over provisions attached to the spending bill aimed at blocking President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will outline plans Tuesday to overhaul the state's retirement system, a day after a judge blew a hole in the Republican's push to slash promised payments to the public employees pension fund to help balance the state budget. (Associated Press)
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A bill by Rep. Matt Salmon, Arizona Republican, would amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to require a member or representative of a household that receives such benefits to show photographic identification at grocery stores when using a food stamp electronic benefits transfer card, or debit card. (Associated Press)
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Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly says reviving a strong, self-sufficient family culture is the only way out of the nation's financial mess. (Associated Press)
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GOP financial strategist Spencer Zwick, who was the national finance chair for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, said that the Republicans' 2016 candidate must take a moderate stance on immigration that advocates a pathway to citizenship. (Associated Press)
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Gabriel Caicedo, 8 weeks old, was born to Andrea Minichini after she took the first of two pills in a medication abortion. She and father Chris Caicedo immediately regretted taking the pill, and with help from her family and a pro-life doctor, she reversed the abortion. Today the couple is raising their healthy child, and joined Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, at a Feb. 23, 2015 press conference in Washington, D.C., to talk about a new effort to promote abortion-pill reversal. (Photo by Cheryl Wetzstein/The Washington Times)
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson waits to speaks about the agency's budget and cybersecurity at the Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee session during the National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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A person wearing a rainbow-colored tie stands at the Texas Capitol steps Feb. 17, 2015, in Austin, Texas. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Illegal immigrants sit in a group after being detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this April 23, 2014, file photo, California Highway Patrol officers Armando Garcia, right, and Ray Patton talk with immigrants attending an information session at the Mexican Consulate regarding obtaining a California drivers license in San Diego. California issued 59,000 driver's licenses to immigrants who are in the country illegally during the first month their applications were accepted, state officials said Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. Overall, a total of about 236,000 immigrants in the country illegally began the application process during January, the state Department of Motor Vehicles said in a statement. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)
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Kansas State Sen. Garrett Love, R- Montezuma carried Senate Bill 95 on the floor of the Senate Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015. The Senate endorsed the bill, which would outlaw a method of abortion called "dismemberment" abortion. Critics of the bill guaranteed constitutional challenges in the future. (AP Photo/Topeka Capital-Journal, Thad Allton)
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In an address to world leaders on the final day of his summit, President Obama said poverty and political grievances fuel alienation that can lead to extremist killing sprees such as the attacks recently in Copenhagen and Paris. "When people are oppressed and human rights are denied it feeds violent extremism." (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama speaks in Chicago, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015, during an event to designate the Pullman neighborhood a national monument, commemorating African-Americans who served as porters, waiters and maids on the iconic Pullman sleeper cars. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ** FILE **
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Krista and Jami Contreras are upset after they say a Michigan doctor refused to treat their newborn because of her religious beliefs against homosexuality. (FOX 2 Detroit)
