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David Sherfinski

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David Sherfinski covered politics for The Washington Times.

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** FILE ** In this Nov. 14, 2013, file photo, President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about his signature health care law, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. It survived the Supreme Court, a presidential election and numerous repeal votes in Congress, but now President Barack Obama's health care law risks coming unglued because of his own mistakes explaining it and his administration's bungled implementation. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama, Obamacare disapproval at new highs

More Americans disapprove of how President Obama is handling his job and his signature health care law than ever before as the fallout from issues with the law persist, a new Washington Post-ABC poll stated.

November 19, 2013
Virginia Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe announces Monday that Secretary of Finance Ric Brown (at podium) will stay on in his administration, if only temporarily. Mr. McAuliffe also named his chief of staff, deputy chief of staff and secretary of the commonwealth. (associated press)

Virginia Gov.-elect McAuliffe makes first top-level appointments

Virginia Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe, looking to follow through on a pledge to make his administration bipartisan, has selected a finance secretary who has served in state government under 11 governors and three longtime Democratic staffers for top-level positions.

November 18, 2013
** FILE ** Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (Associated Press)

Mitt Romney: Illegal immigrants should have path to citizenship

2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who called for a vague "self-deportation" policy for those in the country illegally during the Republican primary campaign, said Friday that illegal immigrants should be offered an eventual path to citizenship, once again entering a debate that has bitterly divided the Republican party in recent years.

November 15, 2013
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus (Associated Press)

DNC to RNC on Obamacare: Bring it on

Democrats have a message for Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who has said the GOP will "tattoo" Obamacare to Democrats' foreheads in the 2014 midterm elections. Bring it on.

November 14, 2013
Secretary of State John Kerry walks to a meeting with the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Kerry and top U.S. nuclear negotiator Wendy Sherman hope to persuade members of the Senate Banking Committee in their meeting Wednesday to hold off on additional punitive measures on the Iranian economy. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

John Kerry: Our endgame on Iran is ‘exactly the same’ as Israel’s

Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday said a potential agreement with Iran is the "best first step" toward quashing the country's nuclear capabilities and that there is no daylight between the United States and Israel on the joint goal of preventing the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons.

November 14, 2013
FILE - In this Jan. 3, 2013 file photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, performs a mock swearing in for Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Fla., right, accompanied by his wife Carolyn, on Capitol Hill in Washington as the 113th Congress began. As a Republican, freshman Yoho cares about the Republican Party’s image and fate. But what he especially cares about is a tiny sliver of the GOP: about 22,000 primary voters who lean heavily conservative, and who secured his spot in the House of Representatives. Yoho is hardly alone. Many other House Republicans owe their elections to similarly small and ideologically intense electorates. These GOP lawmakers pay far less attention to the party’s national reputation. And that deeply frustrates activists trying to build broad, national coalitions to elect a Republican as president in 2016 and beyond. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

GOP closes electability gap

In just six weeks, Republicans have completely erased a 9-point deficit in a generic congressional ballot question and are now running even with Democrats.

November 13, 2013
Republican attorney general candidate Mark R. Obenshain announces his transition team Wednesday, hours after Democratic candidate Mark R. Herring announces his own as both teams await official certification Nov. 25. (associated press)

Arlington bar codes examined for vote problems in Virginia

Elections officials in Arlington acknowledged Wednesday that the county's electoral board accepted more than a dozen provisional ballots in which a voter's name had been checked off mistakenly as already having voted, a discrepancy apparently chalked up to errors by poll workers.

November 13, 2013
**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks during a new conference following a meeting at the Republican National Committee offices on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 23, 2013. (Associated Press)

Boehner: House won’t negotiate with Senate on immigration bill

House Speaker John A. Boehner on Wednesday flatly ruled out even entering into negotiations with the Senate on that chamber's immigration bill, signaling that the issue is dead for this year — and setting up major hurdles for any action before the midterm elections.

November 13, 2013