Home Depot co-founder and prominent Republican donor Ken Langone is standing by his choice for the White House in 2016, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), despite the recent buzz surrounding former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).

"Jeb would be a superb president, but I think Christie would connect better — we desperately need a president to connect to the people," Langone told Buzzfeed in an interview published Friday night.

Now that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has resigned, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) on Sunday indicated that Republicans may use the nomination hearing for her replacement, Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, to harp on their issues with Obamacare.

Scott said on "Fox News Sunday" that he wouldn't go as far as to vote against Burwell because he does not like the health care law, but he said that senators need to better understand Burwell's loyalties and agenda.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning after five years in the role and overseeing the launch of the health care law, the New York Times and Bloomberg News reported Thursday.

President Obama accepted Sebslius' resignation this week. Obama will nominate Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to replace her, officials told the Times.

A medical clinic in Mena, Ark. announced that it would be closing, citing a large drop in need for the clinic as people have signed up for health insurance under Obamacare.

"Because people are qualifying for insurance coverage through the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, our free medical clinic will not be needed anymore," Stacey Bowser, the director of the 9th Street Ministries Clinic, told the Mena Star.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) on Thursday called on Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) to resign, after the married congressman was caught kissing his staffer, the Associated Press reported.

Jindal said in a statement that "the best way to get privacy and work on putting his family back together is to resign from Congress."

Roger Villere, the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party who has called for Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA) to resign, stood behind Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) when he was embroiled in a prostitution scandal.

After McAllister was caught kissing his staffer, Villere on Thursday put out a scathing statement asking the congressman to resign.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday suggested that House Republicans have yet to move on immigration reform because of racial issues.

"I think race has something to do with them not bringing up the immigration bill. I've heard them say to the Irish, 'If it was just you, it would be easy,' " she said at a press conference when asked about a feud between Attorney General Eric Holder and Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX), in which Holder implied that he was treated a certain way because of his race, according to Roll Call.

The chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party, Roger Villere, on Thursday called on Rep. Vance McAllister (R-LA), who was caught kissing his staffer, to resign.

"Mr. McAllister's extreme hypocrisy is an example of why ordinary people are fed up with politics. A breach of trust of this magnitude can only be rectified by an immediate resignation," Villere said in a statement. "He has embarrassed our party, our state and the institution of Congress."

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday morning defended the Koch brothers, the wealthy conservative donors who have been repeatedly bashed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on the Senate floor.

"People want jobs. You don’t beat up people. I mean, I don’t agree with their politics or philosophically, but, you know, they’re Americans, they’re doing — paying their taxes," Manchin said on "Fox and Friends" when host Brian Kilmeade asked if Reid's speeches criticizing the Koch brothers "helps or hurts the cause for the country and for Congress."

Charles Krauthammer, an influential conservative commentator, on Wednesday told Republicans to give up on Benghazi.

"Politically speaking the administration has won. They ran out the clock. If we had a select committee from the beginning, really had coherent hearings unlike what we’ve had, which were disjointed hearings that let all things sort of slip away, we really would have been somewhere. We would have gotten to the bottom of this. But as a political fact, this thing is done," he said on Fox News about congressional Republicans' many investigations into how the Obama administration handled the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.