The National Archives will make public on Friday afternoon a trove of secret documents detailing the inner workings of Bill Clinton’s White House, a disclosure of acute interest not just to the history of one presidency but to the prospects of another. Times reporters are combing through the thousands of pages of internal memos and papers, looking for insights into Mr. Clinton’s decisions, as well as the role his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, may have played in shaping them. Key passages and analysis will be posted here.
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8 Cities Vie for 2016 Republican Convention
No major Republican contenders have announced that they will seek the presidential nomination in 2016, but eight cities are officially in the running to throw the party for the nominee.
Three of them are in Ohio, a perennial swing state. None of them are on the coasts.
Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, tweeted the list of contenders on Thursday:
Each city will make its case to the party’s selection committee in Washington on Monday. That task may have been made simpler for the Phoenix delegation, after Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto on Wednesday of a bill that was perceived as allowing discrimination against gays and lesbians on religious grounds. A spokesman for the Republican National Committee said Ms. Brewer’s deliberations on the matter had no bearing on the timing of the announcement or convention process.
Las Vegas has waged one of the most aggressive campaigns, with casino titans like Sheldon G. Adelson and Stephen A. Wynn backing the city’s bid.
Republicans spent a muggy, hurricane-threatened week in Tampa, Fla., in 2012, so the bids from Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Dallas suggest that delegates and reporters might be in for a dry-heat convention in 2016. But no matter which city the Republicans choose, the biggest difference from 2012 might be the timing: The Republican National Committee announced last month that the convention would most likely be held as early as June rather than in late summer, which is the tradition.
After site visits, the selection committee is expected to select finalists in the late spring, with a full committee vote in the late summer or fall.
The deadline for bids for the Democrats’ convention is Saturday.
In an Article, a Biden With an Eye on 2016, if Few Steps Taken
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was livid when Jim Messina, President Obama’s former campaign manager, publicly pledged his support for a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, a new profile of the vice president says.
The article, in Politico Magazine, describes Mr. Biden as having been “beside himself†after reading that Mr. Messina had placed Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, ahead of him in the not-yet-started race to succeed Mr. Obama in the White House.
“I think the numbers clearly show that she’s the strongest presidential candidate on the Democratic side,†Mr. Messina, the new leader of the Priorities USA PAC, told The New York Times last month. “And Priorities is going to be there for her if she decides to run.â€
When Mr. Messina called Mr. Biden to smooth things out, the vice president did not take his call, the article says. People with knowledge of the vice president’s reaction said that the two men simply did not connect, and have seen each other since, including during Mr. Biden’s swearing-in of Max Baucus, the former senator from Montana, as ambassador to China.
Mr. Messina did not respond to emails requesting comment about the article. Aides in Mr. Biden’s office also declined to comment.
The article is the latest to suggest that Mr. Biden has his eye on a possible run for the presidency, despite having taken few concrete steps toward that goal. Mr. Biden has recently given several interviews on the topic.
On ABC’s “The View†this week, Mr. Biden said that Mrs. Clinton’s decision about a run would not affect his. “Whether she runs or not will not affect my decision,†he told Barbara Walters. “I have absolutely not said no. I’m as likely to run as to not run.†He added that he saw himself as “uniquely positioned†to be president.
In the magazine article, Mr. Biden is said to have responded to a longtime friend with a quote from the poet Dylan Thomas: “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.â€
Still, the article says that Ron Klain, Mr. Biden’s former chief of staff and a close adviser, has drafted a memo outlining a possible path to victory for Mr. Biden in 2016.
“Klain, according to several sources, has drafted another one of his famous memos outlining the narrowest of paths for positioning Biden in the 2016 race: either as a progressive alternative to Clinton or as an heir apparent, ready to pounce if she decides not to run,†Glenn Thrush, the article’s author, writes.
Mr. Biden has shown little reluctance to talk about the skills he would bring to the Oval Office.
“I think I’m qualified by the record I have demonstrated over the years, by the experience I have, by the significant knowledge I have of not only foreign policy but individual leaders in foreign countries and domestically as well,†he told the magazine.
And yet the article concludes that Mr. Biden has done little of the work that he needs to do if he wants to make a serious run for the White House again. He has not set up a leadership PAC. He has not seriously begun raising money for candidates in the midterm elections.
Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said in a press conference on Thursday that Mr. Obama has not been thinking about his potential successors, either.
“He has in the vice president an extremely effective partner in all that they do together and in pursuit of an agenda in which they share great faith in,†Mr. Carney said. “It’s 2014, still early. There’s no reason to be focused on anything else.â€
Mr. Biden “in all likelihood won’t be the next president, and, yes, he knows that as well as anyone,†Mr. Thrush writes. “But that might not be enough to keep him out of the race.â€
Clinton Addresses a Key Constituency at the University of Miami
Hillary Rodham Clinton fielded questions from college students in Miami on Wednesday evening, and in the process positioned herself as sympathetic to a younger generation’s concerns about the country and its political leaders.
In a wide-ranging talk at the University of Miami, Mrs. Clinton talked about tolerance and inclusion. “I hope your generation will be a true participation generation,†she said. “I hope you will find ways that the barriers that too often divide us are torn down once and for all.â€
She also weighed in on the legislation in Arizona that would have allowed businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians. “Thankfully, the governor of Arizona has vetoed the discriminatory piece of legislation that had passed,†Mrs. Clinton said to applause.
Sounding at times as if she were still secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton discussed the crisis in Syria and called for the removal of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons stockpiles. “This is an issue I’ve certainly spent a lot of time working on and worrying about both when I was in the government and in the time since,†she said.
The students, many of them Latino, also questioned Mrs. Clinton about the violence in Venezuela. “We tried to engage President Chávez,†Mrs. Clinton said of former President Hugo Chávez and referring to her tenure at the State Department. But she said the United States had made no headway in its relationship with Venezuela, despite what she said were the Obama administration’s best efforts with Mr. Chávez â€" who died a year ago â€" and his successor, President Nicolas Máduro.
On the domestic front, Mrs. Clinton defended the Affordable Care Act, warning that young people who think they are invincible need health insurance. If all Americans are covered, she added, insurance costs would come down.
Mrs. Clinton used the talk to praise the Millennial Generation â€" generally defined as those born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The voters of that generation would be crucial to Mrs. Clinton if she decides to run for president in 2016.
“If you look at what’s happening in our country today, it’s clear that the so-called Millennials are really representative of a generous and active generation,†she said.
At the end of the event, the university’s president, Donna Shalala, a longtime Clinton friend who was secretary of health and human services in the Clinton administration, coyly tried to discern Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 plans. She asked if the former first lady would reveal the meaning of “TBD†in her personal Twitter description. Mrs. Clinton replied: “I’d really like to, but I have no characters left.â€
Clinton Addresses a Key Constituency at the University of Miami
Hillary Rodham Clinton fielded questions from college students in Miami on Wednesday evening, and in the process positioned herself as sympathetic to a younger generation’s concerns about the country and its political leaders.
In a wide-ranging talk at the University of Miami, Mrs. Clinton talked about tolerance and inclusion. “I hope your generation will be a true participation generation,†she said. “I hope you will find ways that the barriers that too often divide us are torn down once and for all.â€
She also weighed in on the legislation in Arizona that would have allowed businesses to deny service to gays and lesbians. “Thankfully, the governor of Arizona has vetoed the discriminatory piece of legislation that had passed,†Mrs. Clinton said to applause.
Sounding at times as if she were still secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton discussed the crisis in Syria and called for the removal of the Assad regime’s chemical weapons stockpiles. “This is an issue I’ve certainly spent a lot of time working on and worrying about both when I was in the government and in the time since,†she said.
The students, many of them Latino, also questioned Mrs. Clinton about the violence in Venezuela. “We tried to engage President Chávez,†Mrs. Clinton said of former President Hugo Chávez and referring to her tenure at the State Department. But she said the United States had made no headway in its relationship with Venezuela, despite what she said were the Obama administration’s best efforts with Mr. Chávez â€" who died a year ago â€" and his successor, President Nicolas Máduro.
On the domestic front, Mrs. Clinton defended the Affordable Care Act, warning that young people who think they are invincible need health insurance. If all Americans are covered, she added, insurance costs would come down.
Mrs. Clinton used the talk to praise the Millennial Generation â€" generally defined as those born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. The voters of that generation would be crucial to Mrs. Clinton if she decides to run for president in 2016.
“If you look at what’s happening in our country today, it’s clear that the so-called Millennials are really representative of a generous and active generation,†she said.
At the end of the event, the university’s president, Donna Shalala, a longtime Clinton friend who was secretary of health and human services in the Clinton administration, coyly tried to discern Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 plans. She asked if the former first lady would reveal the meaning of “TBD†in her personal Twitter description. Mrs. Clinton replied: “I’d really like to, but I have no characters left.â€
Rogen Tells Congress of Family’s Struggle With Alzheimer’s
Seth Rogen opened his testimony to a Senate panel on Wednesday with a quip.
“First I should answer the question that I assume many of you are asking,†said Mr. Rogen, whose many movies include a starring role in the stoner comedy “Pineapple Express.†“Yes, I’m aware this has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana.â€
When the laughter quieted, he got down to business before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, where he testified about the devastating impact of Alzheimer’s disease on families and the need to raise awareness and financing for treatment. He described his and his wife’s experiences with his mother-in-law, who developed early onset Alzheimer’s.
“I thought it was something that only really, really old people got, and I thought that the way the disease primarily showed itself was in the form of forgotten keys, wearing mismatched shoes and being asked the same question over and over,†he said. “After that, however, is when I saw the real ugly truth of the disease.â€
Mr. Rogen’s mother-in-law received an Alzheimer’s diagnosis when she was 55, and five years later she could not feed, dress or go to the bathroom by herself, he said.
He and his wife have been working with the Alzheimer’s Association to help spread awareness about the disease and to raise money for research. The congressional hearing room where Mr. Rogen testified was packed with supporters who wore purple sashes in solidarity with those affected by the disease, which is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States, and growing.
Mr. Rogen was not the only celebrity to hit Capitol Hill on Wednesday. As Mr. Rogen spoke, Ben Affleck was a few floors up, testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the prospects for peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, a nonprofit advocacy group for people in the region.
House Republicans in Texas Donate to Protect One of Their Own
One of the surest signs that an incumbent is concerned about re-election is the amount of money that other lawmakers send his way.
By that standard, Representative Ralph M. Hall, who is in his 34th year of House service, is clearly worried. At least seven of Mr. Hall’s fellow Texas Republicans have contributed money to him from their own campaigns since the beginning of 2014, although Mr. Hall’s most recent Federal Election Commission filing incorrectly labeled them as individual contributions. Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 12, Mr. Hall raised $117,688 â€" more than four times what he raised during the same period in 2010.
Although Mr. Hall has increased his fund-raising effort, it’s the $13,000 in contributions from seven of his colleagues that is more telling. The amount isn’t much, but the fact that Mr. Hall is getting money directly from his colleagues is somewhat unusual. Lawmakers typically make donations to other candidates from their leadership committees, reserving the bulk of money in their campaign accounts for their own re-election efforts. Two of the House donors who gave money in January to Mr. Hall, William M. Thornberry and Kay Granger, last gave their colleague a campaign check in 2004, after Mr. Hall, elected as a Democrat, switched to the Republican Party. Representative Sam Johnson, another Texas Republican, also gave money to Mr. Hall in 2004, but did so again in 2012.
Mr. Hall didn’t make the House Republicans’ list of most endangered incumbents, because he’s at little risk of losing his 4th District seat to a Democratic candidate in November’s election (in his last race, he secured 73 percent of the vote). Instead, his concerns stem from the March 4 Republican primary, where a former United States attorney, John Ratcliffe, is running to his right. Mr. Ratcliffe has loaned his campaign $400,000 and spent $300,000 during the first six weeks of the year, including more than $80,000 on television and radio advertisements. Mr. Hall has responded with ads of his own on TV, billboards and other media.
Should Mr. Hall lose his bid for re-election, Republicans would be no worse off in their attempts to maintain a majority. But his replacement could provide another vote for the collection of conservative House Republicans who have caused a headache for Speaker John A. Boehner as he tries to preside over a splintered majority, perhaps one reason he is getting some financial help from his friends.
Sunday Breakfast Menu, Feb. 23
Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesThe Ukrainian Parliament voted Saturday to oust President Viktor F. Yanukovych after weeks of antigovernment protests and violent clashes with the military. Protesters claimed to have established control of the capital city, while Mr. Yanukovych called the events a “coup†in a television interview on Saturday.
President Obama condemned the violence in Ukraine this week. Protesters say more than 70 people have been killed. But Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, criticized Mr. Obama’s approach, calling him “the most naïve president in history†in a radio interview on Thursday.
Mr. McCain will weigh in again on the president’s foreign policy and the situation in Ukraine on CBS’s “Face the Nation.†Susan E. Rice, the national security advisor, will give the administration’s position on developments in Ukraine and Mr. Obama’s relationship with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on NBC’s “Meet the Press.â€
On “Fox News Sunday,†Senators Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and Kelly Ayotte, Republican of New Hampshire will also discuss the Ukrainian protests.
The National Governors’ Association held its winter meeting this weekend in Washington, and Mr. Obama pushed minimum wage raises in a meeting with Democratic governors on Friday. Several governors will extend the conversation on the Sunday shows. Gov. Scott Walker, Republican of Wisconsin, and Gov. Peter Shumlin, Democrat of Vermont, will give updates on their states on “Fox News Sunday.â€
CNN will host four governors on “State of the Union,†including Gov. Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Democrat of Connecticut, Gov. Rick Perry, Republican of Texas, and Gov. Jay Nixon, Democrat of Missouri. They will cover the health care law, minimum wage, same-sex marriage and the death penalty.
Gov. Martin O’Malley, Democrat of Maryland, and Gov. Bobby Jindal, Republican of Louisiana, will appear on CBS to comment on presidential prospects in 2016 and the health care law.
Former President George W. Bush will sit down with Martha Raddatz to talk about the Bush Institute’s Military Service Initiative, which helps veterans returning from war, on ABC’s “This Week.â€
On Telemundo’s “Enfoque,†MarÃa Corina Machado, an opposition leader in Venezuela, will appear on the show to share her views on the protests in her country. The show airs at noon Eastern.
Lorraine Miller, interim president of the N.A.A.C.P., will talk about the minimum wage, the healthcare law and criminal justice reform on CSPAN’s “Newsmakers.â€
Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican of Florida, and Luis V. Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, will give an update on immigration reform on Univision’s “Al Punto.â€
Gov. Maggie Hassan, Democrat of New Hampshire, discussed the economy on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital†on Friday. John Sununu, former Republican senator of New Hampshire, and David Plouffe, former White House adviser, debated immigration reform. The show repeats throughout the weekend.
Sunday Breakfast Menu, Feb. 16
Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesA powerful storm dumped record amounts of snow and ice on the East Coast, leaving stranded travelers and downed power lines in its wake. North Carolina’s highways were littered with abandoned cars after snowfall during the day paralyzed the evening rush, a similar scene to Atlanta’s gridlock in late January.
Gov. Pat McCrory, Republican of North Carolina, will appear on ABC’s “This Week†to talk about the extreme weather. Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles will also join the conversation to discuss California’s record-setting drought. Later in the show, the actor Kevin Spacey, who appears on the political drama “House of Cards,†will talk about the second season, which was released on Netflix on Friday.
Mr. McCrory will also appear on CBS’s “Face the Nation†to give an update on his state. Jim DeMint, a former Republican senator of South Carolina and the president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy group, will give his thoughts on the debt-ceiling bill passed on Tuesday.
Extreme weather will dominate the conversation on NBC’s “Meet the Press,†when Bill Nye, scientist and educator, and Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee and the vice chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, will discuss climate change. Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, will also appear on the show to talk about the cost of the Sochi Olympic Games and the future of his party in 2016.
On “Fox News Sunday,†Ted Strickland, former Ohio governor, and Karl Rove, former White House adviser to President George W. Bush, will debate presidential candidate prospects in 2016. This week, President Obama announced a delay for enforcement for medium-size companies to provide health insurance to employees until 2016. Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, and Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat of California, will discuss these changes.
Syria missed another deadline to turn over its chemical weapons earlier this month. Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, will weigh in on Syria and Iran on CNN’s “State of the Union.â€
Michael Sam, a defensive lineman for the University of Missouri and a National Football League prospect, announced that he is gay this month. Both CBS and ABC will host roundtable discussions about his decision.
Representatives Mario Diaz-Balart, Republican of Florida, and Luis Gutierrez, Democrat of Illinois, will talk about the state of immigration reform in the House on Telemundo’s “Enfoque.â€
On CSPAN’s “Newsmakers,†David Medine, chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, will appear.
Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, talked about comprehensive tax reform and Senator Rand Paul’s lawsuit against the federal government on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital.†The show airs on Friday and repeats throughout the weekend.
On Univision’s “Al Punto,†the show will preview a one-on-one interview with George Zimmerman, acquitted of fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, which will air on Sunday at 7 p.m.
Conservative Group Takes Sides in Michigan G.O.P. Primary
The country’s biggest conservative political organization announced Wednesday that it was diving into a bitter Republican primary in Michigan, its first such intervention into the broader battle between GOP-leaning business groups and Tea Party conservatives.
The group, Americans for Prosperity, will spend about $230,000 on advertisements thanking Representative Justin Amash, for fighting against President Obama’s signature health care law, officials there said â€" a shot across the bow of establishment donors who are rallying behind his challenger, Brian Ellis.
The ads do not attack Mr. Ellis, and officials at Americans for Prosperity said the commercial should not be construed as an endorsement of Mr. Amash. But the decision to get into a hotly contested primary on behalf of one of the most aggressive lawmakers hints at the delicate line the group is trying to walk: to maintain its credibility with other conservatives seeking to reshape the Republican Party without committing itself to an expensive internecine struggle that could endanger its chances of retaking the Senate this year.
“Congressman Amash has been a rock-solid vote for free-market issues in the House, and has been a leader on efforts to stop Obamacare,†said Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity. “A.F.P. is well known for holding members accountable when they vote the wrong way; we think it’s also important to thank those who do the right thing and stand up against big-government laws like Obamacare that are hurting so many American families.â€
Americans for Prosperity, co-founded by the billionaire David Koch, has spent about $27 million in recent months, most of it attacking Democratic candidates for the Senate over health care. In the process, the group has become the Republican leadership’s most critical ally in the battle to win control of the Senate. And unlike other conservative groups that have criticized the party establishment, like the Senate Conservatives Fund or the Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity has so far steered clear of contentious Republican primaries in states like Kentucky and Texas.
But in backing Mr. Amash, the group is siding with an outspoken lawmaker who has repeatedly clashed with his own leadership in the House of Representatives. Mr. Amash, whose libertarian politics are often compared to those of former Representative Ron Paul of Texas, has pushed to strip financing for the National Security Agency’s data-mining efforts and restrict the use of drones. He has voted against the most austere budget proposals, arguing that they do not go far enough to restrain government, and last year he voted against a spending bill negotiated by Republican leaders that ended the two-week government shutdown.
In November, a number of prominent donors from Michigan’s business community announced that they would be supporting Mr. Ellis, citing Mr. Amash’s tactics on the shutdown among other issues. Mr. Amash has also drawn criticism from Karl Rove, the Republican strategist.
But Mr. Amash also has prominent allies. Chief among them are member of the DeVos family, Michigan’s most influential Republican donors, who have given generously to Mr. Amash’s congressional campaigns as well as to Americans for Prosperity.
Mr. Amash is also being backed by other right-leaning groups. FreedomWorks has endorsed Mr. Amash through its political action committee and pledged to match money spent by business-oriented groups on behalf of Mr. Ellis. Last month, the Club for Growth began running ads attacking Mr. Ellis as a “big-taxing, big-spending, corporate-welfare-loving politician.â€
Pro-Clinton ‘Super PAC’ Sets Event for Donors
The leading Democratic “super PAC†will hold a briefing for potential donors this month, its first such event since reorganizing in January as a vehicle to help elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as president.
The group, Priorities USA Action, is inviting some of the Democratic Party’s top New York City-area donors to an event billed as “an evening reception to discuss the upcoming 2014 and 2016 elections.â€
Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor, who joined Priorities USA as co-chairman in January, will headline the event, along with two other officials from the group: the executive director, Buffy Wicks, a former aide to President Obama; and Jonathan Mantz, a lobbyist and Democratic fund-raiser.
Michael W. Kempner, a New Jersey public relations executive who was among Mr. Obama’s leading fund-raisers in 2012, will host the event, according to an invitation obtained by The New York Times.
The event will formally kick off the group’s fund-raising outreach for an election that is still more than two and half years away, in aid of a candidate who has not yet declared she will run. And in a nod to fears that the early start by Priorities could drain money from super PACs seeking to aid Democrats in Congress this year, attendees are not being asked to write checks â€" yet.
Priorities began reaching out to potential donors last month when it announced a new board of directors led by Jim Messina, a Democratic consultant who was Mr. Obama’s campaign manager.
Conservative Group Takes Sides in Michigan G.O.P. Primary
The country’s biggest conservative political organization announced Wednesday that it was diving into a bitter Republican primary in Michigan, its first such intervention into the broader battle between GOP-leaning business groups and Tea Party conservatives.
The group, Americans for Prosperity, will spend about $230,000 on advertisements thanking Representative Justin Amash, for fighting against President Obama’s signature health care law, officials there said â€" a shot across the bow of establishment donors who are rallying behind his challenger, Brian Ellis.
The ads do not attack Mr. Ellis, and officials at Americans for Prosperity said the commercial should not be construed as an endorsement of Mr. Amash. But the decision to get into a hotly contested primary on behalf of one of the most aggressive lawmakers hints at the delicate line the group is trying to walk: to maintain its credibility with other conservatives seeking to reshape the Republican Party without committing itself to an expensive internecine struggle that could endanger its chances of retaking the Senate this year.
“Congressman Amash has been a rock-solid vote for free-market issues in the House, and has been a leader on efforts to stop Obamacare,†said Tim Phillips, the president of Americans for Prosperity. “A.F.P. is well known for holding members accountable when they vote the wrong way; we think it’s also important to thank those who do the right thing and stand up against big-government laws like Obamacare that are hurting so many American families.â€
Americans for Prosperity, co-founded by the billionaire David Koch, has spent about $27 million in recent months, most of it attacking Democratic candidates for the Senate over health care. In the process, the group has become the Republican leadership’s most critical ally in the battle to win control of the Senate. And unlike other conservative groups that have criticized the party establishment, like the Senate Conservatives Fund or the Club for Growth, Americans for Prosperity has so far steered clear of contentious Republican primaries in states like Kentucky and Texas.
But in backing Mr. Amash, the group is siding with an outspoken lawmaker who has repeatedly clashed with his own leadership in the House of Representatives. Mr. Amash, whose libertarian politics are often compared to those of former Representative Ron Paul of Texas, has pushed to strip financing for the National Security Agency’s data-mining efforts and restrict the use of drones. He has voted against the most austere budget proposals, arguing that they do not go far enough to restrain government, and last year he voted against a spending bill negotiated by Republican leaders that ended the two-week government shutdown.
In November, a number of prominent donors from Michigan’s business community announced that they would be supporting Mr. Ellis, citing Mr. Amash’s tactics on the shutdown among other issues. Mr. Amash has also drawn criticism from Karl Rove, the Republican strategist.
But Mr. Amash also has prominent allies. Chief among them are member of the DeVos family, Michigan’s most influential Republican donors, who have given generously to Mr. Amash’s congressional campaigns as well as to Americans for Prosperity.
Mr. Amash is also being backed by other right-leaning groups. FreedomWorks has endorsed Mr. Amash through its political action committee and pledged to match money spent by business-oriented groups on behalf of Mr. Ellis. Last month, the Club for Growth began running ads attacking Mr. Ellis as a “big-taxing, big-spending, corporate-welfare-loving politician.â€
Pro-Clinton ‘Super PAC’ Sets Event for Donors
The leading Democratic “super PAC†will hold a briefing for potential donors this month, its first such event since reorganizing in January as a vehicle to help elect Hillary Rodham Clinton as president.
The group, Priorities USA Action, is inviting some of the Democratic Party’s top New York City-area donors to an event billed as “an evening reception to discuss the upcoming 2014 and 2016 elections.â€
Jennifer Granholm, the former Michigan governor, who joined Priorities USA as co-chairman in January, will headline the event, along with two other officials from the group: the executive director, Buffy Wicks, a former aide to President Obama; and Jonathan Mantz, a lobbyist and Democratic fund-raiser.
Michael W. Kempner, a New Jersey public relations executive who was among Mr. Obama’s leading fund-raisers in 2012, will host the event, according to an invitation obtained by The New York Times.
The event will formally kick off the group’s fund-raising outreach for an election that is still more than two and half years away, in aid of a candidate who has not yet declared she will run. And in a nod to fears that the early start by Priorities could drain money from super PACs seeking to aid Democrats in Congress this year, attendees are not being asked to write checks â€" yet.
Priorities began reaching out to potential donors last month when it announced a new board of directors led by Jim Messina, a Democratic consultant who was Mr. Obama’s campaign manager.
Hastings Joins Roster of Retiring House Members
Representative Doc Hastings, a Republican who has represented Washington State for 20 years and who is chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, announced Thursday that he would retire at the end of the year, joining a growing number of veterans heading for the congressional exits.
Mr. Hastings’s conservative district in central Washington is not expected to be a battleground in the fight for control of the House, but his departure accelerates the brain drain on Capitol Hill. Other Republicans who have announced their departures, or have already left, include Representative Howard “Buck†McKeon of California, chairman of the Armed Services Committee; Representative Jo Bonner of Alabama, chairman of the Ethics Committee; Representatives Frank R. Wolf of Virginia and Tom Latham of Iowa, senior leaders of the Appropriations Committee; and Representative Jim Gerlach of Pennsylvania, a senior member of the Ways and Means Committee.
“Last Friday, I celebrated my 73rd birthday, and while I have the ability and seniority to continue serving central Washington, it is time for the voters to choose a new person with new energy to represent them in the people’s House,†Mr. Hastings said in a statement.
The rash of retirements in both parties reflects disillusion with the dysfunction in Washington, growing partisanship and the flow of outside money into congressional races that has eroded lawmakers’ independence. The retirements have slightly expanded the playing field for the midterm elections, and in some cases have all but assured that control of a district will switch parties. Republicans are virtually assured seats held by Democrats in Utah and North Carolina. Democrats are likely to pick up the seat of Representative Gary G. Miller, Republican of California.
Mr. Hastings â€" like Representatives Henry A. Waxman and George Miller, both Democrats of California who are leaving Congress â€" is a legislative veteran who has increasingly been stymied in efforts to work across party lines.
Clintons Introduce New Women’s Global Initiative
It’s been almost 20 years since Hillary Rodham Clinton solidified her feminist credentials and declared, wearing a pale pink suit in Beijing, “Women’s rights are human rights and human rights are women’s rights.â€
Now, as Mrs. Clinton contemplates another run for the presidency, that 1995 speech and her work on women have become central to her post-State Department life. On Thursday, Chelsea Clinton moderated a discussion on women and girls with Mrs. Clinton and Melinda Gates at New York University.
The event introduced a new partnership between the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and the Gates Foundation that will track the development of women globally from 1995 until today using data from a variety of sources including the World Bank and Google.
Mrs. Clinton called the event on women in Beijing “historic and transformational†and said the issue has been “one of the great causes of my life.â€
She said she noticed the lack of comprehensive data to track development of women and girls while she was at the State Department, where she tried to apply a feminist approach to development. “I wanted to make that part of our foreign policy and I ran into that same problem all these years later,†Mrs. Clinton said.
The program, “No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project,†is the latest collaboration between the Gates and Clinton Foundations, and will be one of the central initiatives in Mrs. Clinton’s philanthropic work.
“It was rooted in what was accomplished in Beijing in 1995, before some of you were born, but not all of you,†Mrs. Clinton told the crowd of more than 500 N.Y.U. students.
As Mrs. Clinton completes a memoir about her tenure at the State Department, her legacy has been closely examined. Part of the challenge for Mrs. Clinton and her team will be to communicate that her focus on women’s rights has deeper diplomatic, geopolitical and national security implications, and is not a politically safe or soft issue as some critics have alleged.
Despite the poor weather, which caused cancellations throughout Washington and up the East Coast, Mrs. Clinton stayed on schedule. Mrs. Gates said she and her husband were “data geeks†and the event was peppered with a mix of wonky data and warm, mother-daughter moments â€" the kind that some pundits have said could bolster Mrs. Clinton’s image and presidential prospects.
The panel took questions from the crowd and Mrs. Clinton delivered some advice to the young women in the audience. “Learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally,†she said.
Antisurveillance Campaign Adds Itself to Washington’s Datebook
The antisurveillance crowd is trying to get onto the government’s radar. And though it’s a busy Tuesday in the nation’s capital, they seem to be having some success, repurposing an effective 2012 campaign to stop two Internet-related laws. But this time, instead of trying to block measures, a coalition of civil liberties groups and technology companies is flooding social media with calls to pass legislation that would limit the surveillance powers of the National Security Agency.
Presented as “The Day We Fight Back,†a broad coalition of groups including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation and companies like Reddit and Tumblr called on Internet users to press lawmakers into action. The campaign compared itself to earlier efforts to block laws like the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. But as a sign of the movement’s attempt at maturing from opposing laws to backing them, it encouraged participants to support the U.S.A. Freedom Act. The bill, co-sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, tries to place statutory limits on the N.S.A.’s surveillance abilities.
By some metrics of social media, the campaign succeeded in capturing a large amount of attention online. Its designated hashtag, #StopTheNSA, was trending during parts of the day among users of Twitter in the United States, with the website Topsy recording a large spike in use of the term in the past two days. On Facebook, the National Security Agency was at the top of the social network’s new “Trending†module for much of Tuesday for some users. The campaign’s website reported that more than 37,000 phone calls had been made and that more than 85,000 emails had been sent in support of its calls to action.
The campaign’s message was getting through to some members of Congress, who took to Twitter to confirm that they were hearing from constituents:
One representative, Mike Honda of California, changed his Twitter avatar to show his support for the campaign:
And other members of Congress also highlighted their support for the U.S.A. Freedom Act:
While the “Day We Fight Back†campaign gained considerable attention on the Internet and from some corners of Congress on a day when major distractions abounded, the prospects for the bill it supports remained uncertain. The U.S.A. Freedom Act, which the campaign is backing, is still being considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The FISA Improvements Act, which the campaign opposes, has been reported out of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
With Christie Under Fire, Republican Governors Have Big Fund-Raising Month
The Republican Governors Association announced on Wednesday that it had set a January record for fund-raising, seeking to refute suggestions that the troubles of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey have scared away the group’s donors.
The announcement landed as Mr. Christie, the group’s chairman, arrived in Chicago on Tuesday for a public speech and a fund-raising dinner at the home of Kenneth C. Griffin, a top donor to the group. Democrats have tried to paint Mr. Christie as a liability to his party, pointing out that some Republican candidates have declined to appear with him on his recent fund-raising trips to Florida and Texas.
But if some donors are beginning to have doubts about backing the organization because of the New Jersey bridge scandal that has dogged Mr. Christie, it is not reflected in fund-raising last month. A spokesman for the group said it had raised $6 million â€" twice as much as the association has ever raised in January, including during the 2010 cycle, its best ever.
The announcement is unusual for the association, which is not required to report monthly fund-raising totals, underscoring the urgency with which the group has responded to questions about Mr. Christie. Even some Republicans have suggested that Mr. Christie step down and focus on New Jersey and his response to federal and state inquiries into political retaliation by his former aides and his administration’s handling of relief money for Hurricane Sandy.
In 2013, before the bridge scandal exploded, the Republican association raised $50 million, far more than the Democratic Governors Association.
“Donors are active because Republican governors are the leaders producing real results for their states,†said Gail Gitcho, a spokeswoman for the governors association, “implementing policies to create jobs, balancing budgets without raising taxes, improving education, and making their states more attractive to business.â€
False Alarm Over Suspicious Substance at Wyden’s Senate Office
The United States Capitol Police investigated a “suspicious substance†found in the office of Senator Ron Wyden on Monday evening, and less than an hour later announced in an email, “All tests are negative, and the area is now open.â€
An earlier email alert, sent by the police shortly after 5 p.m., said officers were “continuing to investigate a suspicious substance†in Mr. Wyden’s office, and advised all staff members and other personnel to avoid the area in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Wyden staff members who were in the office had been advised to stay there while the investigation was underway.
Mr. Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and has been an outspoken critic of government surveillance efforts, especially the National Security Agency’s spying practices.
He is not the only senator who has recently been sent a suspicious substance. Last April, a letter sent to Senator Roger Wicker, Republican of Mississippi, tested positive for the poison ricin.
Sunday Breakfast Menu, Feb. 9
Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesAs the Winter Olympics take off this weekend in Sochi, following an extravagant opening ceremonies Friday, the international community is still keeping tabs on Russia’s readiness and safety. In the shadow of two terrorists attacks last December in Russia, security remains a top concern in Sochi.
Janet Napolitano, head of the American delegation to the Winter Olympics and former Homeland Security secretary, will speak from Sochi on safety at the games on CNN’s “State of the Union.†The American ambassador to Russia, Michael A. McFaul, will talk about the games on NBC’s “Meet the Press.â€
Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York and the chairman of the House Homeland Security subcommittee, will also weigh in on Olympic security on CBS’s “Face the Nation.†Later in the show, Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who was a member of the “Gang of Eight†that tackled immigration in 2013, will give his thoughts on what can be done this year. But Speaker John A. Boehner said this week that immigration reform was unlikely to pass in 2014.
Immigration will also dominate the conversation on Univison’s “Al Punto.†Representative Raul Labrador, Republican of Idaho, will explain his comments that immigration reform will not happen this year, and Representative Xavier Becerra, Democrat of California, will give his party’s perspective on immigration. The show airs at 10 a.m. Eastern.
The Senate failed to break a Republican filibuster on a three-month extension of assistance to the long-term unemployed, a key part of President Obama’s economic recovery plan. Senator Kelly Ayotte, Republican of New Hampshire, will discuss her party’s position on unemployment benefits on CBS.
On ABC’s “This Week,†Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan and House Intelligence Committee chairman, will also discuss security threats. Representatives Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, and Keith M. Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota, will face off during the show’s roundtable debate.
Syria missed an important deadline this week, failing to turn over all its chemical weapons. Representatives Michael T. McCaul, Republican of Texas and House Homeland Security Committee chairman, and Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and a House Intelligence Committee member will discuss Syria’s decision on “Fox News Sunday.†Russia said Tuesday that Syria would export its weapons by March 1.
Senators Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, and Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, will discuss the Congressional Budget Office report released this week, which said the Affordable Care Act would cut the work force because more people may choose not to work or take fewer hours, no longer needing insurance from their employers. On NBC, Senators Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, will also debate the C.B.O. report.
On CSPAN’s “Newsmakers,†Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, will talk about his potential presidential run in 2016.
Representatives Jeff Denham, Republican of California, and Tony Cardenas, Democrat of California, will appear on Telemundo’s “Enfoque,†which airs at noon Eastern.
Retired Gen. James L. Jones, a former White House National Security adviser, covered an array of foreign policy topics, including the Iranian nuclear deal, Afghanistan, China and security at the Olympics, on Bloomberg’s “Political Capital.†The show aired on Friday and repeats throughout the weekend.
Biden Shows Interest in Another Presidential Run
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said in an interview broadcast on Friday that he would run for president “if no one else†can fight for the domestic, economic and foreign policy issues he cares about and said he would decide by mid-2015.
Mr. Biden did not shy away from signaling his interest in a third run for the White House but his formulation seemed a nod to the looming candidacy of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who leads him 6 to 1 in a theoretical Democratic nomination contest.
“For me,†he told CNN’s Kate Bolduan, “the decision to run or not run is going to be determined by me as to whether I am the best qualified person to focus on the two things I’ve spent my whole life on - giving ordinary people a fighting chance to make it and a sound foreign policy that’s based on rational interests of the United States.â€
While he did not mention Mrs. Clinton, he seemed to acknowledge her front-runner position. “Doesn’t mean I’m the only guy who can do it,†he said, “but if no one else, I think, can and I think I can, then I’d run. If I don’t, I won’t.â€
Asked for a time frame for a decision, he said, “Probably, realistically, a year this summer.â€
Mr. Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate representing Delaware, has run for president twice before, first in 1988 when he dropped out after plagiarism allegations and again in 2008 when he was swamped by both Mrs. Clinton and Barack Obama. After Mr. Obama beat Mrs. Clinton for the nomination, he asked Mr. Biden to join his ticket.
A third run would test Mr. Biden, who has never won a primary or caucus and would be 74 by the time the next president is inaugurated and 82 at the end of a second term. But he is vigorous and in apparent good health. He projects energy and optimism and has been at the center of some of the most important issues in the Obama administration, including managing the withdrawal from Iraq and overseeing the economic stimulus program.
Lately, after last year’s failed fight for gun control legislation, he has been less visible, but he is still handling Iraq for the president as allies of Al Qaeda make a comeback in the western part of the country. He has also been the point person in managing the political crisis in Ukraine and was just assigned by Mr. Obama to conduct a review of job training programs.
Still, Priorities USA Action, the so-called super PAC fund-raising vehicle that backed Mr. Obama in his 2012 re-election campaign, threw its support to Mrs. Clinton last month, indicating that it would raise money for her to fend off possible competitors in 2016.
He Can Carry a Tune, but Can He Carry the Race?
WASHINGTON â€" Clay Aiken, the 2003 runner-up on “American Idol,†officially announced on Wednesday that he is running for Congress in North Carolina. Now it is time to ponder some questions he might face on the stump:
Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images Clay Aiken 1. Many Democrats in North Carolina have bailed out of Congressional races after being drawn into heavily Republican districts, like the one you are running in. How can you win?
2. What are your thoughts on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership and how it might affect the North Carolina manufacturing industry?
3. What do you think is harder â€" placing in a national singing competition or passing meaningful legislation in Congress?
4 During one talk show appearance, you spoke out against North Carolina’s constitutional amendment outlawing same-sex marriage. Although many people were impressed, do you think it helps or hurts you in this race?
5. Harry Connick Jr: a good addition to the Idol judge panel, or too obtuse?
Mr. Aiken’s announcement video focuses on his abusive father and early difficulties in life, and it only hints at his musical career.
Representative Renee Ellmers, who ran as a Tea Party candidate in 2010 and barely squeaked into office, has dismissed Mr. Aiken as unable to win “Idol†and thus ill-equipped to unseat her. Mr. Aiken suggests that his humble beginnings and time working with children with autism best qualifies him for a seat in the House.
The Second District, which covers some central and Eastern areas of the state, is now overwhelmingly Republican and Ms. Ellmers, a nurse, quickly grew close to her party’s leadership team.
Back to Job Hunt After Sharing State of the Union Spotlight
WASHINGTON â€" For a brief moment last week, at the request of the White House, Misty DeMars was the face of long-term unemployment in the United States. The attention has not led to any job offers, not yet at least, but she is hopeful. “I think I can boost my résumé by adding that I wrote part of the State of the Union 2014,†Ms. DeMars, 37, said wryly.
She sat next to Michelle Obama at President Obama’s State of the Union address, as the president described Ms. DeMars’s all-too-familiar situation.
At the end of last May, Ms. DeMars, the mother of two young sons, lost her job at a Chicago-area planetarium, just after she and her husband had taken out a mortgage on a new house. While she received unemployment benefits, Ms. DeMars searched for a new position, preferably with a nonprofit group. But the recession has battered such organizations. And given the cost of the full-time child care necessary for her to stay on the job - $500 a week - she felt she could not accept just any job.
At the end of December, she was among the 1.3 million workers who lost their federally financed unemployment benefits. “We just keep plotting our lives out in shorter and shorter durations,†Ms. DeMars said. “My husband and I are trying to juggle the best we can, but resources are finite. We don’t have a private safety net.â€
“We see that cliff. It’s looming,†she added. “And we’re trying not to go over.â€
About four million Americans, including Ms. DeMars, count themselves among the long-term unemployed. With the fierce competition for jobs and the economy still performing below its potential, many Democrats and some Republicans have pushed to reinstate a federal emergency program that provided additional weeks of jobless benefits â€" a policy that Mr. Obama pushed in his State of the Union address. There appears little chance that the benefits will be extended.
When her benefits expired, Ms. DeMars wrote Mr. Obama a letter describing her experiences. To her surprise, an aide called her back. “He wanted you to know that he heard you,†the aide said, referring to the president. Then the White House asked her to be a guest at the State of the Union speech and to let Mr. Obama share her experiences.
“It was completely shocking - I think I blanked out,†Ms. DeMars said. “It was terrifying to get the phone call, because I knew I’d be in the spotlight for what is a very personal experience. When the president calls, you answer.â€
The trip was a blur, she said. She and her husband left Chicago during a storm that left much of the country frozen solid. After two canceled flights, they finally made it to Washington to meet with Labor Secretary Thomas Perez and Mrs. Obama.
“I expected the whole experience to be quite formal with the first lady,†Ms. DeMars said. “She opened her arms for the biggest hug â€" a warm, caring hug, a genuine hug.â€
After watching the State of the Union speech from inside the Capitol, she met briefly with Mr. Obama himself. “He looked me in the eye and said, ‘I heard you,’ †she said.
Now back in Chicago, she is still searching for a job against tough odds. “Before I lost my job, I was in the position of reviewing applications,†she said. “We’d get 300-plus applications for every entry-level job I was posting. I knew exactly what I was up against.â€
Ms. DeMars said she did go home to a deluge of phone calls and emails that she has been sifting through. One prospective employer, she said, mentioned Ms. DeMars’s television appearance.
Republicans Vague on Citizenship Question
Republican lawmakers on Sunday remained vague on whether they would support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as many Democrats do, focusing instead on related issues like border security and enforcement while leaving uncertain the prospects for a broader overhaul of the system.
Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, largely deflected questions on the CBS News program “Face the Nation†about how far Republicans would be willing to go to change the immigration system. Last week, Republican leaders signaled that they might support a path to legal status, a opposed to citizenship, for adults who entered the country illegally.
Asked by Major Garrett of CBS News about offering citizenship to undocumented workers, Mr. Cantor answered indirectly: “There’s a lot of focus on the immigration issue. But you know, in reality, we not only want to help the situation there,†he said, shifting next to pocketbook issues.
“We know that 75 percent of Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck,†he added. “We’ve come up with some real solutions to help America work for those people, too.â€
Pressed by Mr. Garrett about internal divisions among Republicans on the issue, Mr. Cantor said: “So far as immigration is concerned, we’ve said all along we don’t believe in a comprehensive fix. We want to go in a step-by-step approach to try and address the problems.â€
Mr. Cantor did say that House Republicans would not consider the bill passed by the Democratic-controlled Senate last June, which included a 13-year path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
House Republican leaders emerged from their annual retreat last week with a one-page document describing their position on immigration, which included an opportunity for 11 million undocumented workers to earn legal status, a statement that pitted many Republicans against their party’s leadership.
Mr. Cantor said on CBS that Congress should address the issue of children who are brought to the country illegally, a subject on which there is consensus. The document released by Republicans on Thursday, called “Standards for Immigration Reform,†said there should be a path to legal status and citizenship for such immigrants.
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, appearing on the CNN program “State of the Union†on Sunday, said Congress needs to find a way to reverse “a completely backwards system†in which it is easy to enter illegally and hard to enter legally.
“What I believe we need is a system of high walls and a broad gate,†he said. “Right now we’ve got the opposite â€" we’ve got low walls and a narrow gate.â€
Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin said on the ABC News program “This Week†that before they would agree to anything else, Republicans would push for increased border security and enforcement that includes employment verification and visa tracking.
“We don’t think that we can allow this border to continue to be overrun,†he said. “And if we can get security first, no amnesty, before anything happens, we think that’s a good approach.â€
Republicans on Sunday emphasized their distrust of President Obama to enforce existing immigration laws. Mr. Ryan said because of that, Republicans need to verify that the proper security measures are in place before they move forward on broader immigration issues.
Asked whether he believed Congress could pass a law overhauling the immigration system this year, Mr. Ryan said he did not know.
“If we can do that where it’s security first, no amnesty, then we might be able to get somewhere, but I just don’t know if that’s going to be the case or not,†he said.
Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, said on CBS that although the White House would wait to see what House Republicans propose, Mr. Obama wanted to offer undocumented immigrants an opportunity to become citizens.
“We don’t want to have a permanent separation of classes or two permanent different classes of Americans in this country,†Mr. McDonough said. “We’re just not going to live with that.â€
In an interview with CNN recorded earlier this week and aired on Sunday, Mr. Obama expressed optimism about the prospects for an immigration overhaul.
“I genuinely believe that Speaker Boehner and a number of House Republicans, folks like Paul Ryan, really do want to get a serious immigration reform bill done,†he said.
Sunday Breakfast Menu, Feb. 2
Stephen Crowley/The New York TimesSeveral lawmakers gave responses to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday, but they have more to say. Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin who gave the Republican rebuttal in 2011, will share his thoughts on the speech on ABC’s “This Week.†Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington delivered the Republican response this year.
Representatives Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas, and Raúl R. Labrador, Republican of Idaho, will debate the president’s speech on Telemundo’s “Enfoque.â€
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,†Senator Tim Scott, Republican of South Carolina, will give his take on the speech and the White House chief of staff, Denis McDonough, will share insights on the speechwriting process. Later on the program, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, will talk about Edward J. Snowden, the former N.S.A. contractor who remains in Russia under temporary asylum, and his next moves. In an interview broadcast last week, Mr. Snowden said the president’s recent changes to the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs were just “minor changes.â€
Mr. McDonough will also appear on CBS’s “Face the Nation†to talk about the president’s emphasis on executive orders. The House majority leader, Eric Cantor, will join to show, and probably address the Republican immigration principles released this week, which called for a path to legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Mr. Obama gave an interview to CNN’s Jake Tapper last week, where he covered immigration, marijuana and safety at the Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Gov. Bobby Jindal, Republican of Louisiana, will also give his thoughts on the State of the Union.
But the hottest topic will most likely be the Super Bowl, when the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos face off at 6:30 p.m. at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York City will go on CBS to talk about safety at the game.
“Fox News Sunday†will be all football, broadcasting from the MetLife Stadium with the Commissioner Roger Goodell of the N.F.L. discussing player safety and the possibility of expanding football abroad. Two former N.F.L. players â€" John Elway and Archie Manning â€" will also appear on the program.
On CSPAN’s “Newsmakers,†Senator Debbie Stabenow, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, will give insight on the farm bill, which the House passed Wednesday; the Senate is expected to follow suit.
On Univison’s “Al Punto,†Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, will discuss the Republican immigration principles released this week. Wendy Davis, Texas state senator and democratic gubernatorial candidate, will also appear on the show. “Al Punto†airs at 10 a.m. Eastern.
On Bloomberg’s “Political Capital,†the former White House chief of staff, John D. Podesta, and former Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi appeared on the show Friday. The program repeats throughout the weekend.
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