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A new poll from Pew Research suggests that President Obama has largely weathered the scandals and controversies of recent weeks without taking a hit to his approval rating — despite a recently released CNN poll suggesting just the opposite.

The Pew survey found that 49 percent of Americans approve of the way the president is handling his job, while 43 percent disapprove. That's down just two points from early May, when 51 percent of those surveyed said they approved of the president.

But the numbers stand in stark contrast to the CNN survey, which showed Obama's numbers tumbling to 45 percent, down from 53 percent a month prior. The CNN numbers were driven by double-digit losses among independents and young voters.

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said grade-school students should be taught classes about traditional gender roles in a floor speech on Tuesday.

"You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade-school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important," Gingrey said.

Gingrey was speaking is support of the Defense of Marriage Act, currently under review by the Supreme Court.

“Anybody want to fire some IRS agents?" he asked Tea Party members at a rally.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was “starting to get nervous” about passing immigration reform, suggesting that opponents of the bill were gaining momentum.

"I certainly wouldn't presume to speak for Harry Reid, but I think he's starting to get nervous," Cruz said in an interview with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.

The FBI director told a Senate panel drones are used for domestic surveillance but "our footprint is very small."

The senator said she backs "marriage equality" and supports "the government getting out of the way to let that happen.”

Obama said despite "enormous mistrust," Karzai saw the need for "political reconciliation."

Karl Rove, the top political strategist to the Bush administration, said Tuesday that President Obama was right to contend that he was not like former Vice President Dick Cheney in his handling of the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs.

“He’s right, he’s not Dick Cheney — Dick Cheney at least had the guts to step up and defend these National Security Agency programs, where the president was sending out underlings in order to defend it himself and then going on a talk radio program, a TV talk program, as he fled the country for the G-8 meeting,” Rove told Fox News.

During an interview with Charlie Rose that aired Monday, the president acknowledged that critics viewed his administration as "Bush Cheney-lite" in the aftermath of the NSA revelations, but contended he had done more to protect personal privacy.

The former lawmaker said he had a "lot of concerns" about the immigration bill Rubio helped draft.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they want public hearings on the NSA surveillance programs revealed earlier this month.