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The Tea Party holds a 37 percent approval rating, one point below its all-time high.

The Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union opposes Penny Pritzker's nomination over a labor dispute at Hyatt hotels. 

Democratic Rep. Danny Davis (Ill.) on Monday joined the growing calls for a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS political targeting scandal.

"I have no difficulty at all with a special prosecutor," said Davis, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, in an interview with Chicago radio station 89 WLS.

The DOJ seized personal emails of Fox reporter James Rosen and tracked his visits to the State Department.

The union, which represents 12,000 immigration officers said the deal would create an "insurmountable bureaucracy."

White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler learned the IRS was targeting conservative groups weeks before audit went public, the WSJ reports.

Obama is expected to lay out the legal justification for armed drone strikes in the address at the National Defense University.

"Despite the doom and gloom, you should be optimistic about this country," Obama told supporters at a DSCC fundraiser.

In a blog post from 2010, GOP nominee E.W. Jackson said Obama's anti-Semitic views could harm relations with Israel.

“We're seeing big government in practice. Now, we're seeing the arrogance," said Ryan.