ERIC CANTOR

Democrats and Republicans are working to blame each other's policies for a lackluster May U.S. jobs report, cementing the critiques that will reverberate through the general election in November.

Google is getting serious about its self-driving car technology campaign. In an effort to make the driverless car legal on U.S. roads, the Mountain View, Calif. based company was spotted showing off the robo-prius on the streets of Washington, D.C. - just one day after Nevada became the first state to legalize autonomous vehicles.

Mitt Romney's process of selecting a vice presidential nominee has begun in earnest , and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is the slight favorite to be the pick, according to sportsbook.com.

President Barack Obama turned Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner into a roast of his likely 2012 presidential election campaign and his widely predicted Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, while also taking jabs at his staff, Congress, ongoing scandals within his administration and the event's absurd A-list turnout.

Back in October, the Speaker said he wouldn't support anyone in the race until the general election, in order to give each of the candidates a fair shot. The country is still months away from the convention, but Boehner's endorsement unofficially seals the deal: the Republican establishment wants Romney to be the nominee.

President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for stricter controls on lawmakers to confront the corrosive influence of money in Washington as he signed into law an insider trading ban he said was needed to help restore trust in the U.S. government.

House Republicans are pushing for a short-term extension of federal transportation funding, resisting pressure to pass a comprehensive bill.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday in favor of sending a bill to President Barack Obama which will ban insider trading by Congress members.

From Ron Paul's major' endorsement by South Carolina Sen. Tom Davis to Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's unexpected reversal from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum, here are the remaining GOP candidate's most significant endorsements so far, and how the candidates' supporters, and their reasons for backing the candidates, help illustrate each campaign's central message.

The U.S. Senate Tuesday rejected a bipartisan proposal to provide tax incentives for natural gas vehicles, a plan seen by some as paving the way for reduced dependence on foreign oil but panned by conservative groups as an unnecessary subsidy.

Republicans responded to a better-than-expected February jobs report Friday, detracting any credit from President Barack Obama and remaining pessimistic about unemployment.

A protracted battle for the Republican presidential nomination has damaged how voters perceive the individual candidates and the Republican party in general, according to an NBC/WSJ poll.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, both well-known conservatives, praised Romney as some Republicans still grapple with whether they can endorse the so-called Massachusetts moderate.

Mitt Romney closed in on Rick Santorum in Ohio and picked up a crucial endorsement in Virginia on Sunday as he grows in strength ahead of Super Tuesday, the biggest day yet in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Bolstered by his recent CPAC straw poll win, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was the most prevalent political figure respondents picked as their ideal Republican vice presidential candidate.

House Republicans said Senate Democrats' refusal to accept spending cuts as a way to pay for a payroll tax cut extension has forced them to come up with a fallback plan to continue the popular proposal until after Election Day 2012.

The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed new curbs on insider trading by lawmakers and other government officials despite complaints from Democrats and some Republicans that key anti-corruption provisions were dropped.

Republicans expressed frustration Thursday at the slow pace of negotiations over extending a tax break for workers that expires at the end of the month, accusing President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats of blocking agreement.

Sen. Tom Coburn, who was one of two votes against an insider trading law aimed at lawmakers, said the real inside trading that sours Americans on Congress is the political horse trading on legislation.

Greenpeace alleges TransCanada's Canadian and U.S. filings demonstrates the company used 'false or misleading' job creation numbers to bolster approval for the Keystone XL pipeline.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords officially resigned from the House of Representatives on Wednesday in an emotional goodbye for the three term congresswoman serving Arizona's 8th congressional district. She returned to the House floor one last time as her colleagues unanimously approved her bipartisan border security legislation as she stepped down from office.