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press the president about budget talks with Republicans, the next chairman of the Federal Reserve and local jobs projects, as well as to appeal to him for help in next year's campaigns. In a lighter moment, House Democrats presented Obama with a birthday cake. He turns 52 on Sunday.
• The White House is seeking to keep up enthusiasm among Democrats following a rough start to Obama's second term.
• He has gained an agreement in the Senate to get at least some long-blocked nominees confirmed, and the Senate has passed its version of sweeping immigration legislation. But the immigration overhaul faces a deeply uncertain future in the Republican-led House, where many in the GOP oppose a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Wednesday, July 31, the 212th day of 2013. There are 153 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On July 31, 1777, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental Army.
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• On this date:
• In 1556, St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, died in Rome.
• In 1875, the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson, died in Carter County, Tenn., at age 66.
• In 1919, Germany's Weimar (VY'-mahr) Constitution was adopted by the republic's National Assembly.
• In 1930, the radio character "The Shadow" made his debut as narrator of the "Detective Story Hour" on CBS Radio.
• In 1933, the radio series "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy," made its debut on CBS radio station WBBM in Chicago.
• In 1942, Oxfam International had its beginnings as the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was founded in England.
• In 1953, Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, known as "Mr. Republican," died in New York at age 63.
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