The month-long August Congressional recess is expected to be a busy one for supporters of comprehensive immigration reform, who hope to use the month to bear down hard on House Republicans who have thus far dragged their feet on the issue.

Republican leaders question Obama's ability to deliver on immigration reform.

Gridlock reigns on the question of immigration reform. After a two-hour meeting on Wednesday to discuss the GOP’s approach on immigration, Republicans rejected the Senate bill and its path to citizenship for the undocumented and indicated it would continue to consider small bills reflecting the priorities of its most conservative members.

The House is slated to unveil its own bipartisan, comprehensive take on immigration reform after the July 4th Congressional recess. It will reportedly offer legal status to many of the nation's 11 million undocumented, but it remains to be seen whether it will offer a path to citizenship.

The Associated Press spoke to eight Republican members of the House of Representatives, who indicated that local anti-immigration reform pressures in their staunchly conservative districts influenced their stance on the current bill. Many of the GOP's most powerful members believe if their party blocks an immigration reform from passing, it would spell doom for its 2016 presidential chances.

"If we don’t pass immigration reform," Graham said, “if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016."

Former CBS anchor Dan Rather weighed in on MSNBC's "Morning Joe", blasting Republicans' response to the recent alleged scandals in Washington.

The House committee has been established to investigate whether the State Department probe into the 2012 Benghazi attacks took senior leaders to task and whether the Obama administration misled the public in its early statements on the attacks' authors.

A recent national poll indicated that nearly half of Latinos have a favorable view of Obamacare, the highest rate of favorability among any ethnic or racial group. The finding comes as the GOP looks to expand outreach among Hispanic voters.

An immigration reform poll shows that a majority of Latinos are willing to vote Republican if their views on the crucial issue line up.

The White House is drafting a backup immigration reform plan in case a bipartisan congressional committee working on a bill fails, an Obama Administration official said on Sunday, though a key Republican said the president's plan would be "dead on arrival" on Capitol Hill.

Barack Obama's win in the U.S. presidential election highlighted how population shifts -- ethnic and generational -- have buoyed Democrats while forcing Republicans to rethink their message.

N.J. Gov. Chris Christie has never been coy about offering his opinion; many have found themselves the target of the governor's wrathful fondness for candor. If that wasn't clear before, Christie truly proved he's going to speak his mind no matter who or what the subject Wednesday, aiming some explicit, harsh words at high-profile members of his own political party.

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress expressed surprise and doubt on Tuesday about President Barack Obama's comment in debate with Republican challenger Mitt Romney that the automatic spending cuts set for the new year "will not happen."

Republicans on Sunday kept the heat on President Barack Obama over the September 11 killing of four Americans in Libya, with a senior senator saying the attack supported the Romney campaign's claim that Obama's foreign policy is "unraveling."