President Obama on Sunday surprised U.S. troops in Afghanistan with a visit to Bagram Air Field.

CNN "State of the Union" host Candy Crowley on Sunday sat down with the chairs of the House and Senate Veterans Affairs oversight committees to quiz them on their role in letting Veterans Affairs backlogs go unnoticed.

"We added up the number of hearings together that the two of you have had since 2013, the beginning of the last session. It was well over 90," she said to Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), adding that the two committee chairs had 10 joint hearings.

President Obama traveled to Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan to address U.S. troops on Sunday.

Watch his speech at 1:45 p.m. ET:

Country star Brad Paisley traveled to Afghanistan for a surprise performance for U.S. troops on Sunday.

About to play a surprise concert for the troops in Afghanistan. God bless our military. Here we go.

— Brad Paisley (@BradPaisley) May 25, 2014

In the wake of the University of California Santa Barbara shooting that left seven dead, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) on Sunday called on Congress to revive the failed gun control package introduced following the Sandy Hook shooting.

“That gut-wrenching, heartbreaking statement is a reminder of how we felt in the wake of Sandy Hook on Dec. 14, a year and a half ago when it seemed like we were on the verge of potentially legislation that would stop the madness and end the insanity that has killed too many young people, thousands — tens of thousands — since Sandy Hook," Blumenthal said on CBS' "Face the Nation," referencing the statement one of the victim's fathers gave following the California shooting.

Dr. Ben Carson, retired neurosurgeon and Fox News contributor, on Saturday openly admitted that he's pretty happy about the Veterans Affairs scandal.

"I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider," Carson said on Fox News, using the veterans hospital backlogs to criticize Obamacare. “And if we can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?”

Texas gubernatorial candidate and state Sen. Wendy Davis (D) arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday morning for a fundraiser to spot multiple posters portraying her as an "abortion barbie," the Huffington Post reported.

The signs, titled "Hollywood welcomes Abortion Barbie Wendy Davis," depict the candidate as a Barbie with a plastic "fetus" in her abdomen. In the poster she is holding another plastic "fetus" below a pair of giant scissors.

Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) on Wednesday suggested that House Republicans are using the Benghazi select committee to target President Obama due to his race.

NewsOne Now host Roland Martin asked Clyburn, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, if he saw "similarities in terms of where we are as a country" now to what he experienced in the Jim Crow South.

The same Republican candidate for Congress from Arizona who recently claimed that "99 percent" of mass shooters are Democrats, has also compared the police to Nazis, according to The Arizona Republic.

Gary Kiehne, a hotel owner, complained in a Thursday interview with the Republic about police evacuation checkpoints set up during the devastating Wallow Fire in 2011.

A Texas lawmaker on Tuesday said that President Obama believes he can combat climate change because he thinks he's God, according to Raw Story.

During a debate between candidates in the lieutenant governor race, an audience member asked state Sen. Dan Patrick (R), who will likely win the election, how much money he would spend to "cool the environment."