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President Bush made a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to have lunch with Senate Republicans — and plug the immigration bill that he supports but which many GOP senators oppose. It was unclear whether he gained any new votes.

President Obama has asked Congress for $3.7 billion to address the influx of immigrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. The Senate Appropriations Committee is holding a hearing about the request.

The U.S. Senate this week failed to end debate on a measure that would reinstate the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. Some 1.3 million unemployed Americans lost these benefits at the end of 2013, after Congress failed to extend the program. Now, lawmakers can't agree on how to pay for the program in 2014, which means more waiting for the long-term unemployed struggling to get by.

Unemployment insurance is at the top of the list for President Obama as Congress returns to Washington, but the big budget battles still loom.

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President Obama heads to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to talk to Democrats about how to protect the Affordable Care Act from being dismantled by Republicans.

As lawmakers on Capitol Hill struggle with looming deadlines on taxes and spending cuts, they now face another big question: What, if anything, can Congress do to prevent more massacres like the one last Friday in Newtown, Conn.? Some Democrats are pushing for tighter restrictions on guns and ammunition. In their way stands the Republican-run House.

Even for an election year, 2016 is turning out to be a particularly unproductive year for Congress. House GOP leaders are struggling to pass a budget — a modest goal at best — while other legislative items are getting punted until after the election.

Washington, D.C's Capitol Hill was the scene of a car chase that ended in tragedy Thursday. The female suspect was pronounced dead. A female child was in the vehicle and was taken to a local hospital for observation. There were no injuries to the child. Police say it was an isolated incident with no links to terrorism.

In two key votes this past week, many Republicans fell in step with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his quest for more support from younger voters and women.