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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., addresses supporters at his victory rally in the Kentucky Senate race, Tuesday,Nov. 4, 2014, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Mitch McConnell promises long nights, full weeks to force Senate to work

Fresh off a stunning victory for him personally and for his party in the Senate, presumptive Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed there will be "no government shutdowns and no default on the national debt" on his watch, but spent as much time focusing Wednesday on fixing what he called a broken process as he did on issues.

November 5, 2014
FILE - This June 13, 2014 file photo shows Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. speaking in Chicago. The surge of Central American children crossing the U.S. southern border has shifted the politics of immigration, weakening one of the most potent arguments Democrats plan to make against Republicans in November and in the next presidential election. In the past month, the number of Americans who rank immigration as the nation’s top problem has tripled in surveys conducted by Gallup _ putting the issue on par with the economy and unemployment as the most frequently named issues facing the country. (AP Photo/Stacy Thacker, File)

Gutierrez: Immigration critical to Obama, Democratic party

Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez, the most prominent leader of the immigration legalization movement, said Wednesday that President Obama showed "disdain and disrespect" for immigrants this year and Latino voters punished Democrats for it at the polls.

November 5, 2014
Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican who has led opposition to Mr. Obama's immigration plans, said the results of the midterm elections show voters gave a clear mandate to the president. (Associated Press)

Immigration a losing issue for Democrats in 2014 midterm elections

Immigration was a losing issue in the 2014 election, with Republicans who announced their opposition to President Obama's legalization plans earning victories across the country and voters in Oregon swatting down a referendum that would have granted driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

November 5, 2014
Virginia Republican Congressional candidate Barbara Comstock, right, celebrates with her husband Chip Comstock, at her election night party, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 in Ashburn, Va. Comstock ran against democrat John Foust for the 10th Congressional District of Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Republicans overcome ‘war on women’ attack

Republicans showed Tuesday they've solved Democrats' "war on women" attack, winning key races in Colorado, Virginia, Kentucky and Iowa where President Obama and his allies had hoped that message would help them overcome voter fatigue.

November 5, 2014
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., joined by his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, celebrates with his supporters at an election night party in Louisville, Ky.,Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. McConnell won a sixth term in Washington, with his eyes on the larger prize of GOP control of the Senate. The Kentucky Senate race, with McConnell, a 30-year incumbent, fighting off a spirited challenge from Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, has been among the most combative and closely watched contests that could determine the balance of power in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP holds all its Senate seats

Republican David Perdue won the election for Georgia's Senate seat, holding the state for the GOP despite tough headwinds that had seemed to give Democrats hope for a pickup.

November 4, 2014
A chastened White House announced late Tuesday evening that President Obama had invited congressional leaders to the White House on Friday to try to chart a path forward, hoping to find at least some issues where the two parties could cooperate. (Associated Press)

Republicans close in on Senate majority; Obama to meet with GOP leaders

Voters seething with discontent took out their anger on congressional Democrats Tuesday, leaving Republicans on the brink of a Senate majority for the first time in eight years and kneecapping President Obama's ability to pursue his agenda for the rest of his term.

November 4, 2014
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., hugs a volunteer holding a sign as she heads in to vote at the Town Hall in Madbury, NH, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Shaheen, a Democrat seeking a second term, faces Republican Scott Brown, who is seeking to represent a second state. Brown moved to New Hampshire last year after losing his U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Jeanne Shaheen beats Scott Brown in New Hampshire

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen on Tuesday fended off a stiff challenge from Republican Scott Brown in New Hampshire, allowing Democrats to breath a sigh of relief in what otherwise was shaping up to be a bleak election night.

November 4, 2014
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a potential 2016 presidential candidate, speaks during a public rally at U.S. House candidate Rod Blum's campaign office on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, in Dubuque, Iowa. (AP Photo/The Telegraph Herald, Jessica Reilly) ** FILE **

GOP unlikely to win Hispanic support in 2016: Poll

Most Hispanics in the U.S. say they personally know an illegal immigrant, according to a new poll of Latino voters released Tuesday that suggests one reason why immigration plays such an outsized role in their voting preferences.

November 4, 2014
This photo taken June 4, 2014, shows Labor Secretary Thomas Perez speaking in Washington. (AP Photo/Connor Radnovich) ** FILE **

Judge undercuts Obama housing discrimination argument, rebukes Tom Perez

A federal judge overturned the Obama administration's "desperation" move to try to find more ways to prove discrimination in housing in a decision Monday that also delivered a searing rebuke to Thomas Perez, a Cabinet official whom liberals are pushing to be the next attorney general.

November 3, 2014
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Phoenix is seen here on Aug. 5, 2008. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Homeland Security tightens visa rules amid terrorist fears

Homeland Security officials said Monday that they will immediately begin demanding more information from visitors from countries with visa-free entry, bowing to growing fears that jihadists from Iraq or Syria could use a loophole to bring their battle to the U.S. mainland.

November 3, 2014
**FILE** A draft copy of the 21-page Health and Human Services Department form proposed for use to apply for low-cost insurance from Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program is photographed in Washington on March 12, 2013. (Associated Press)

Feds paid bill for HIV drugs even after Medicare patients died: audit

Medicare continued paying for HIV-related drugs for 158 patients even after they died in 2012, according to a new watchdog report being released Friday that suggested the problems could extend well beyond AIDS drugs to include all pharmaceuticals covered under Medicare's prescription drug benefit.

October 31, 2014
Sens. John McCain (left) and Marco Rubio (right), and Sen. Lindsey Graham — who all collaborated with Mr. Obama and Democrats last year to pass a broad legalization bill in the Senate — said in a letter that the president lacks the legal authority to act on his own. (Associated Press)

Obama warned against illegal immigrant amnesty executive action

Three of President Obama's GOP partners on immigration warned him Thursday not to try to act on his own to grant legal status to illegal immigrants, saying the border is not yet secure enough from either illegal immigration or potential terrorist threats.

October 30, 2014
Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Illegal immigrant children get tilapia farm, guitar lessons, miniature ponies

One of the contractors housing some of the surge of illegal immigrant children from this summer offers them a petting zoo with miniature ponies, a Tilapia fish-farm operation and guitar lessons, according to documents releasedThursday by a senator who questioned whether the plush accommodations were a good use of taxpayers' money.

October 30, 2014