Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is talking up the healthcare reform law in a big way on the campaign trail.

Reid, who led efforts to shepherd the $940 billion legislation through the Senate, is facing a tough reelection battle this fall. He spoke at several Democratic county conventions in northern Nevada on Saturday.

“The most important thing we've done for the country and the world is health care,” he said according to the Nevada Appeal. 

Republicans have warned Democrats to use the healthcare law, upon which the public is divided, during the fall campaigns at their own peril.

Democrats have countered, saying that the healthcare law is one of their greatest achievements, comparing it to the passage of large, popular entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. 

Cross-posted to the Briefing Room

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Sunday that he would withdraw his support from Florida Gov. Charlie Crist if he decided to run as an independent in the face of a stiff Senate primary challenge from Marco Rubio.

McConnell, asked about his endorsement of Crist on "Fox News Sunday," noted that he'd lent his backing more than a year ago, and "a lot has happened" since then.

"My advice to him would be to compete as a Republican," McConnell said. "...I think if the governor decided to run as an independent he's not going to have any Republican support."

The senator wasn't taking back his support immediately, he said, but would if the circumstances change.

"I would be troubled if the governor decided to run as an independent," McConnell said. "He certainly would not have my support."

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), who has fundraised for Crist's Senate campaign this year, said that Cheney's statement was damaging.

Senate candidate Carly Fiorina jumped into one of the most contentious issues in the House on the day when Armenians mark the killing of 1.5 million by the Ottoman Empire.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly passed a resolution March 4 to call the killings genocide, which sparked a tiff with Turkey in which the ambassador was recalled to Ankara for a month.

Fiorina issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling on Congress to pass the resolution and calling on President Barack Obama to recognize the killings as genocide, which he didn't in his Armenian Remembrance Day statement.

“There are periods in our history that are dark and horrible," Fiorina said. "They reveal the evil that exists in our world and underscore the atrocities that humankind is capable of committing.

"It is our duty to acknowledge the contemptible, premeditated crimes and horrible acts of genocide that were committed by the Ottoman Turks when they drove Armenians from their ancestral homeland during this dark period of human history," she said.

Armenian communities are prevalent in central and southern California, with the city of Glendale hosting one of the largest concentrations of Armenians in the U.S.

"I've learned never to say never," said the former N.Y. governor, who toyed with running for president in 2008.

The campaign website of businessman Tim Burns (R) crashed Friday morning as it was in the midst of a so-called "money bomb" tied to the visit of Vice President Joe Biden to Pennsylvania.

But it wasn't because of foul play, said Kent Gates, a spokesman for the campaign. "It is a problem with the hosting company and we tried to get it resolved all day."

By Friday evening, the website was still down.

Biden was in Pittsburgh Friday for a fundraiser for Burns' Democratic opponent, Mark Critz. The two are running to fill the late Rep. John Murtha's (D-Pa.) seat.

The Burns campaign started a money bomb last Friday tied to the visit. Gates said the campaign had surpassed its goal of raising $50,000 by Thursday night morning and was on pace to surpass $60,000 before the site crashed.

Gates said the website hosting company, Network Solutions, "had a bunch of websites that they were hosting crashing" on Friday.

(This post was updated on April 25 at 7:26 p.m.)

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has signed a controversial immigration bill which will authorize state authorities to request an immigrant's documentation.

Brewer faced a difficult political decision, given that she wasn't elected to her current post (she succeeded now-Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano) and that she faces opposition in both the primary and general elections. 

Her primary opponent, state Treasurer Dean Martin, called on her to support the bill. But signing it risks turning off voters -- especially Latino ones -- in the general election.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who also faces a primary, recently spoke out in favor the bill, despite his past emphasis on a more comprehensive immigration policy. President Obama on Friday called the bill "misguided."

For more on the bill, see here.

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) is in serious trouble in his primary, according to a new poll released by state Sen. Mike Oliverio.

The poll, which was conducted by in-state pollster Orion Strategies, shows Oliverio surging to an eight-point lead on the incumbent, 41-33. A couple months ago, Mollohan led 41-31.

Oliverio raised $220,000 in the first quarter -- his first in the race -- and had $140,000 cash on hand. Mollohan, meanwhile, raised $360,000 and had $280,000 in the bank.

Mollohan faces difficult in both the primary and general election, with both Oliverio and the Republicans hoping to take advantage of his relatively meager bankroll (by incumbent standards) and some ethical troubles. 

Republicans including former state Del. David McKinley and businessman Mac Warner are fighting for their party's nomination in the conservative district, which went 57 percent for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in 2008.

Pennsylvania House candidate Mark Critz (D) took aim at the Census Bureau for ordering swag from foreign manufacturers.

Critz called it "appalling" that the Bureau had spent $6.4 million on "Census 2010" hats made in China and collared shirts from Central America.

"We used to have hat and shirt factories all over this district," he said at a press conference Thursday at the Bureau's downtown Johnstown headquarters. "With (John) Murtha, it was 'Buy American.'"

According to the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, he showed reporters one of the red shirt's "Made in" label, which said El Salvador.

"We're in a position where unemployment is going up. People are in pain. Children are in pain," he said. "We have to support one another."

Critz said he wasn't against foreign trade. "We have to work with these countries," he said. "It's not a matter of drawing a line in the sand. It's a conversation that needs to take place."

He faces Republican Tim Burns in the May special election to fill the late Murtha's House seat.