Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Republican Congressman Luke Messer (Ind.) agreed Monday that a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants, and a deal on metrics to measure border security are likely to be the biggest challenges to final passage of immigration reform. Read More

U.S. presidents have been throwing out the first pitch on opening day for more than 100 years. That doesn't mean it always goes as planned. Read More

It may only be the first quarter of 2013, but Capitol Hill has already seen many memorable moments. Read More

It's almost time for round two of “Senate Madness”—our online contest pitting history’s most consequential U.S. senators against one another. Unlike the NCAA tournament, all of our #1 seeds are still in the running. Read More

Rick Santorum is putting himself between former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and a political comeback. Read More

Meet the latest winners of our #TDRGoodMorning challenge: Tori Balkin from across the pond in London, England.

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James Carville, a longtime Clinton confidant, says he hasn't met a Democrat yet who doesn't want Hillary Clinton to run for president. Read More

Lawmakers, particularly on the Republican side, are finding it hard to square their principles with their politics when it comes to same-sex marriage. Read More

The country usually gets bad grades in this report, but this year it actually showed improvement from a D in 2009. Read More

While millions of sports fans put the finishing touches on their NCAA brackets, The Daily Rundown and the NBC Political Unit are launching our own version of March Madness. We're calling it “Senate Madness"– our online contest pitting history’s most consequential U.S. senators against one another. Read More

The Republican party's post-election report argues, "We need to campaign among Hispanic, black, Asian, and gay Americans and demonstrate we care about them, too." But RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told MSNBC's Luke Russert that doesn't mean a change in the party's belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Read More

"I think our party needs to have the attitude that, 'if I disagree with you on one issue, it doesn't mean that you're a lousy Republican. It means that you're a good Republican. It means that we agree on most issues, and it means that we need to unite our Party,'" he said. Read More

President Bush's bid to spread democracy through the Iraq war established a sovereign nation. But it may also have eliminated the U.S. as a player in the future democratic movements across the Middle East. Read More

Every new Congressional class comes to Washington, D.C., with the intent to change the way politics are done, but the freshmen class of 2012 are actually trying to do something about it. Read More

Whether it's trying to break into the Senate, the House, or local state governments, women have been attempting to shatter the glass ceiling of politics for decades. One particular female politician who did: former Texas Governor Ann Richards. Read More

The North Dakota senator's optimism comes less than 24 hours after House Republicans gave mixed reactions to the president's visit with their caucus. Read More

Election day may be 20 months away, but Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is going up with his first ad tomorrow, starring his wife, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao. Read More

The U.S. relationship with Latin America has long been defined by cold war politics and a smattering of new economic opportunities...but times may be changing. Read More

In addition to the charm offensive targeting his political opponents, the president will also make an under-the-radar appearance at an event hosted by Organizing for Action, the advocacy network composed of his former campaign staff and grassroots supporters which has been set up as a tax-exempt "social welfare group." Read More

Over a thousand years of papal history point to a European pope, but a Vatican expert says that streak could come to an end before the week is over. Read More