prompt this question. According to those documents, which he released last week, Romney gives at least 10 percent of his earnings of about $20 million a year to the LDS Church.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had begun making her way up the center aisle, clasping the left hand of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) on her right, pausing every now and then to give an embrace or a kiss on the cheek to the dozens of lawmakers who had come to wish her farewell.

The industry's trade group has pushed back. Private-equity firms are good for the country, it argues, because they make the economy run more efficiently and turn around ailing companies, creating jobs.

TODAY'S TAKE: North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, a Democrat, announced she won't run for re-election this year. Some say that decision might actually make Democrats more likely to hold onto the office.