A last-minute fight has emerged over a proposed amendment to the Senate's financial regulation bill that would limit the government's power to address high-risk financial practices at companies if their main business is manufacturing.

In the legal battle over Arizona's new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona.

President Obama plans to do his best to ignore the primary voting Tuesday, traveling to Youngstown, Ohio, for another attempt to focus attention on jobs created by the Recovery Act.