On a weekend dedicated to honoring military service, Illinois Senate candidate Mark Kirk found himself on the defensive.

CQPolitics.com - House and Senate Republicans go into the Memorial Day recess looking to make the case that Democrats have failed the American people on economic issues, national security and energy policy, while Democrats will use their recent string of legislative successes to try to build up their brand before November's elections.

When the White House enlisted former President Bill Clinton to see if Representative Joe Sestak would accept a job to leave a Senate race, was it committing a crime?

After the White House signaled its approval of a ''Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' repeal compromise on the evening of May 24, organizations, activists and members of Congress surveyed the new landscape on Tuesday, May 25.

AP - President Barack Obama is encouraging Americans to visit the Gulf Coast despite the huge offshore oil spill.

CQPolitics.com - House and Senate Democrats continued to struggle Wednesday to salvage a nearly $200 billion package of tax cuts and social spending.

AP - Republican officials say President Barack Obama and Sen. Bob Corker clashed during a private meeting over whether anyone in either party was really trying to be bipartisan this election year.

General Electric Co. and a regional development group say they plan to create the Great Lakes' first offshore wind farm, in Lake Erie near Cleveland.

AP - Republicans cited Rep.-elect Charles Djou's victory for a seat long out of their reach as evidence of steadily increasing election-year strength, but Democrats said Sunday the winner's 40-percent vote share portends a short stay in Congress for him and predicts nothing about the fall.

The month-old oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has unleashed a gusher of congressional hearings that may prove nearly as hard to cap as the blown BP well.