After Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her resignation this week, she explained her decision to leave the administration on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"Well, actually, I made a decision at the election that I couldn't leave along with a lot of my colleagues who left at the end of the first term. That did not seem to be even a topic to consider since there was still one more chapter in this Affordable Care Act that needed to roll out," she said. "There is never a good time."
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Sunday said he was wary of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's (R) description of illegal immigration as an "act of love."
"You know, I think he might have been more artful, maybe, in the way he presented this. But I don't want to say, oh, he's terrible for saying this. If it were me, what I would have said is, people who seek the American dream are not bad people," Paul said on ABC's "This Week." "However, we can't invite the whole world. When you say they're doing an act of love and you don't follow it up with, but we have to control the border, people think well because they're doing this for kind reasons that the whole world can come to our country."
Last week multiple Democrats suggested that members of the Republican party were racist, and that it impacts the way the GOP policy approach.
Attorney General Eric Holder last week implied that he is treated a certain way by some Republican lawmakers because of his race. And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) suggested that "race" is preventing Republicans in the House from moving on immigration reform.
Home Depot co-founder and prominent Republican donor Ken Langone is standing by his choice for the White House in 2016, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), despite the recent buzz surrounding former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).
"Jeb would be a superb president, but I think Christie would connect better — we desperately need a president to connect to the people," Langone told Buzzfeed in an interview published Friday night.
Now that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resigned, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Sunday indicated that Republicans may use the nomination hearing for her replacement, Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, to harp on their issues with Obamacare.
Scott said on "Fox News Sunday" that he wouldn't go as far as to vote against Burwell because he does not like the health care law, but he said that senators need to better understand Burwell's loyalties and agenda.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning after five years in the role and overseeing the launch of the health care law, the New York Times and Bloomberg News reported Thursday.
President Obama accepted Sebslius' resignation this week. Obama will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace her, officials told the Times.
A medical clinic in Mena, Ark. announced that it would be closing, citing a large drop in need for the clinic as people have signed up for health insurance under Obamacare.
"Because people are qualifying for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, our free medical clinic will not be needed anymore," Stacey Bowser, the director of the 9th Street Ministries Clinic, told the Mena Star.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Thursday called on Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) to resign, after the married congressman was caught kissing his staffer, the Associated Press reported.
Jindal said in a statement that "the best way to get privacy and work on putting his family back together is to resign from Congress."
Roger Villere, the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party who has called for Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) to resign, stood behind Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) when he was embroiled in a prostitution scandal.
After McAllister was caught kissing his staffer, Villere on Thursday put out a scathing statement asking the congressman to resign.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday suggested that House Republicans have yet to move on immigration reform because of racial issues.
"I think race has something to do with them not bringing up the immigration bill. I've heard them say to the Irish, 'If it was just you, it would be easy,' " she said at a press conference when asked about a feud between Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX), in which Holder implied that he was treated a certain way because of his race, according to Roll Call.