If your car gets damaged by a pothole (in the U.S.), can you make a claim to the gov't. like in the U.K.?

You can make a claim in the UK to the city council and there is an advocacy group, a href="http://www.potholes.co.uk/" rel="nofollow"http://www.potholes.co.uk//a to help. Is this possible in the United States?