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Raleigh’s Jim Cain, former ambassador to Denmark and one-time president of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team, tells Roll Call he is taking a serious look at running in the Republican primary next year to challenge U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C.

“The race is indeed something that I am considering,” Cain told the Washington, D.C. publication. “Many friends and supporters around the state are encouraging me to challenge Senator Hagan.”

Cain was ambassador under President George W. Bush. A corporate attorney by profession, he works with Kilpatrick Townsend.

That race is getting crowded quickly.

Chancellor Donald Reaves of Winston-Salem State University told Hagan that the school lost about a 750 students this year. Of those more than 600 were academically eligible. Two hundred of those who left were seniors. But they were short of funds — by an average of $2,700, Reaves said.

The pipeline would carry oil from the tarsands of Alberta, Canada, to ports on the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. Environmentalists oppose the pipeline because of the heat-trapping emissions from producing and using the oil, and because of threats of spills along the line.

The bipartisan group of senators told Kerry to approve the pipeline quickly. “Further delay will continue to hurt job creation and may damage our relationship with Canada,” they write.

It’s not the first time Hagan has written in favor of Keystone XL. She signed on to another bipartisan letter making that case to President Barack Obama in November.

The State Department’s approval is required because the pipeline crosses the international border. The latest letter said the administration should make a decision in the first quarter of this year. — Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers

Hagan told reporters in a conference call Tuesday morning that the group of 20 is looking at a new proposal from Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. The two have said start with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and later go on to more cuts and tax and entitlement reforms.

Sen. Kay Hagan has an app.

The application for iPads, iPhones and Androids will help the folks back home keep track of what she’s doing, according to her office.

The free app is supposed to make it easier to contact her office and provide videos, photos and updates. Her office says she’s only one of a handful of senators with their own app.

To download, search “Senator Hagan.”

"Will Obama's own gun control proposals actually work? His own experts say no," the ad reads. It tells readers: “Call Sen. Kay Hagan today. Tell her to oppose Obama’s gun control proposals and to fix our broken mental health system.”

Also in their sights: Sen. Mark Pryor (Arkansas), Sen. Mary Landrieu (Louisiana) and the West Virginia seat being vacated by Sen. Jay Rockefeller who is retiring.

The Hill says the NRA's big ad buy also includes a full-page ad in Maine, where Republican Sen. Susan Collins is up for re-election, and in regional editions of USA Today, plus a YouTube video that's been viewed 275,000 times.

She'll be the chair of the subcommittee on children and families.

Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, the committee chairman, announced the new subcommittee assignments today.

Sen. Richard Burr, who's also a member of the HELP Committee, will be the Republican leader (ranking member) of the Primary Health and Aging subcommittee.

Nearly half of the people asked in a recent survey weren’t sure what to make of new Gov. Pat McCrory yet. The Civitas Poll found 48 percent were either undecided or didn’t know.

But almost as many – 41 percent – approved of the job he is doing, according to the poll of voters taken Jan. 14 and 15. Eleven percent disapproved of the Republican governor, according to the poll by the conservative group.

Speaking to reporters during an appearance at a Durham school today, U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan congratulated the military's Special Forces and U.S. intelligence personnel for the successful raid that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden.

"I just want to join all Americans in paying tribute to our military, our Special Forces, for the exceptional job that they have done," said Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. "The mission is still to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida. We want to be sure that Afghanistan is never a safe haven for terrorists like it was before 9/11."

She said the raid's outcome is "a testament to the training and the execution that these individuals carried out."

She said many discussions are ahead on national security and remaining threats.

"I have great faith that our military will be able to protect Americans at home and abroad," Hagan said.

"This is a huge win for all of America," she said.

N.C. Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco and Gov. Bev Perdue heaped a little love on each other this morning.

At a Durham event to sign an economic partnership between North Carolina and China, Crisco told the audience that he can count on Perdue to "take any call, any meeting to bring new jobs to North Carolina."

"In baseball terms, she's a closer," Crisco told the group, which included more than 100 Chinese politicians and business leaders.