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California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has kept pressure on the White House while garnering mixed reviews for his approach, McClatchy reported.

Under Issa's leadership, the committee has investigated the IRS scandal involving the targeting of conservative groups, the State Department's mischaracterization of the attacks against U.S. facilities in Benghazi, the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running program, and other administration blunders.

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But Republicans tend to give Issa high marks. Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Issa is likely "the most prominent Republican trying to understand the various ways this administration breaks the law. By force of intellect, personality and administrative skill, he will be one of the top 10-15 House Republicans the rest of his career," McClatchy reported.

Former Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., who once headed the oversight committee, said Issa had pushed the envelope in making the Obama administration accountable for its actions.

"He's doing fine. I don't think he's overplayed his hand. Everything he does, he gets attacked by Democrats right off the bat. He's taken a lot of hits; it comes with the territory," Davis said.

Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-Va., an oversight committee member said, "I think Darrell can't help but trip on himself and, ultimately because of hubris, always makes himself the issue."

Norman Ornstein, of the American Enterprise Institute, said, "Issa's propensity to overreach and sometimes exaggerate shifts the focus from the investigation to Issa. The fact that he hasn't gotten the goods at any point reflects poorly on the committee and its chairman."

Issa's defenders say that the investigations the committee has pursued under his leadership led to several resignations, including of Steven Miller, the acting IRS Commissioner, and U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke, in connection with the gun program.

Critics say the cost to taxpayers has been immense. The IRS, for example, has spent some $7.9 million on preparing for Congressional hearings and answering queries.

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Dante Chinni writesPolitics Countsevery Friday. Mr. Chinni is the director of theAmerican Communities Project at American University, which examines different types of communities across the U.S.

Democrats have been talking a lot about women and equality lately. This week President Barack Obama brought equal-pay-for-women advocate Lilly Ledbetter back to the White House to in honor of Equal Pay Day. And in the Senate Democrats attempted to bring the Paycheck Fairness Act to the floor and were unable to get the votes needed to move forward.

A big part of all this female outreach is the fact that women, particularly younger women, are essential to the Democrats chances of staving off a particularly brutal midterm election this fall. The March Wall Street Journal/ NBC News poll reveals how important women could be for the party in the fall.

Women 18 to 49 years old still report that they have positive feelings for Mr. Obama by 10 percentage points 46% positive versus 36% negative. Younger and older men and women older than 50, all report negative feelings toward the president.

And women 18-to-49 still say they would favor a Democrat-controlled congress this fall by a large margin, 52% Democrat-controlled to 36% Republican-controlled. Women older than 50 favor Democrats, but by less 50% to 41%. Meanwhile, men over and under 50 say they would favor Republican control.

If the goal is to drive up turnout among women, particularly women younger than 50, and turn that polling advantage into a vote advantage, whats the prognosis for the Democrats? Could women be the buffer some analysts suggest they could?

There are a few things to consider.

First, as good as the numbers with women look for Democrats, they actually looked better in the March 2010 as you can see in the above chart. Then, women on both sides of 50 had positive feelings about Mr. Obama, and they more strongly favored a Democrat-controlled congress. And Democrats have no desire to repeat the 2010 results.

Second, while we often think of the split between men and women as a 50/50 divide, it isnt.Nationally, the voting age population, 18 or older, leans toward women it is 51.4% female and 48.5% male. Among those 18 to 49 years old, men hold a slight edge, 28.6% to 28.4%.

Those are national averages, though, when you look at individual states and states with Senate races in 2014, the numbers look different. And those differences could be meaningful in the fall in some close Senate races.

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