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Illustration on realities of Obamacare enrollment by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Figures lie: Obamacare applications in duplicate

By Donald Lambro

FILE - In this April 11, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama listens as his nominee to become Human Services secretary, current Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Burwell appears Thursday, May 8 before the Senate Health Committee, the first of two Senate committees that will hold hearings on her nomination. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

HHS nominee faces GOP questions on health law

By ERICA WERNER - Associated Press

Rep. Trey Gowdy

DeLAY: Benghazi select committee may get to the heart of what ‘matters’

By Tom DeLay

President Barack Obama's limousine is parked in front of the home Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn and his wife Cindy in Bel Air, Calif., Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Obama is attending a Democratic party fundraiser and will later received an award from the foundation created by movie director Steven Spielberg. Obama is spending 3 days in California where he will raise money for the Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama up and down state in day 2 of Calif. swing

Associated Press

President Barack Obama walks with Sen. Mark Pryor while touring tornado-damaged areas of Vilonia, Ark., Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Surveying the remnants of nature's destructive power in the country's midsection, Obama pledged to residents of tornado-ravaged Arkansas communities that their government will stand with them until they finish rebuilding. (AP Photo/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Benjamin Krain, Pool)

PRUDEN: Barack Obama’s dysfunctional Washington

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Rep. Darrell E. Issa

Issa threatens EPA with contempt proceedings over records

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ted Cruz releases 76-item list of ‘lawless’ Obama actions

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2013 file photo, Celeste Castillo, 56, of Chicago, an immigrant from Guatemala and a U.S. citizen since 1996, speaks at a news conference in Chicago as Gov. Pat Quinn looks on after it was announced that Illinois has received conditional federal approval for its plan to help run an online marketplace. Castillo was uninsured at the time. Fourteen months later, the 57-year-old nanny was still uninsured until an Associated Press reporter contacted the Quinn administration this week. Her story underscores how complicated the process was for many Americans across the country. (AP Photo/Sun-Times Media, Al Podgorski, File) MANDATORY CREDIT, MAGS OUT, NO SALES

‘Face of the campaign’ mired in health law snags

By CARLA K. JOHNSON - Associated Press

President Ahmad al-Jarba, president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, speaks at the U.S. Institute of Peace, on Wednesday, May 7, 2014, in Washington. Al-Jarba said that rebel forces need weapons that could “neutralize’’ aerial raids by President Bashar Assad’s air force in order to change the balance of power on the ground and pave the way for a political solution to the crisis. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Syrian opposition: Weapons needed to battle Assad

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 24, 2013, file photo, the Capitol Dome is seen behind the Capitol Power Plant in Washington. Democrats running for election in key states are worried about the political fallout from unprecedented greenhouse-gas limits soon to be announced by fellow Democrat Barack Obama's administration. They wish Obama would wait until after November's elections, but if he doesn't start now the rules won't be in place by the time he leaves office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama climate rules can’t wait ‘til after election

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Vilonia residents pleased with Obama’s visit

By CHRISTINA HUYNH - Associated Press

In this May 6, 2014, photo Thom Tillis speaks to supporters at a election night rally in Charlotte, N.C., after winning the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Tillis' victory in the North Carolina Senate primary has spurred both sides to immediately draw battle lines that could frame Senate races across the nation. After dispatching several tea party and Christian-right rivals on Tuesday, Tillis quickly cast Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan as an Obama acolyte. Hagan countered quickly, painting the North Carolina House speaker as the face of Republican extremism. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

In North Carolina, a midterm preview for nation

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

President Barack Obama's limousine is parked in front of the home Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn and his wife Cindy in Bel Air, Calif., Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Obama is attending a Democratic party fundraiser and will later received an award from the foundation created by movie director Steven Spielberg. Obama is spending 3 days in California where he will raise money for the Democratic Party. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: ‘Disquiet’ breeds political cynicism

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Health insurers: Payment rates above 80 percent

By ERICA WERNER - Associated Press

Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., leaves a closed-door Republican strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Speaker of the House John Boehner has tapped Gowdy, a former federal prosecutor, to chair a special select committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the ambassador and three other Americans. Benghazi resonates with Republicans and remains a rallying cry with conservatives whose votes are crucial to the GOP in November's historically low-turnout midterm elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP’s lead on Benghazi former federal prosecutor

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Obama California-bound for speech, fundraisers

Associated Press

FILE - In this July 25, 2012, file photo, then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Two of President Barack Obama’s closest first-term advisers will soon spill insider details on the administration’s handling of the early days of the Great Recession, the White House’s cautious response to the Syrian civil war and the genesis of clandestine talks with Iran. The memoirs from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Geithner will be the latest installments in an often awkward Washington ritual: one-time confidants signing big book contracts to examine a presidency that is ongoing and policy decisions that still are being implemented. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

White House awaits top aides’ back-to-back memoirs

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, center, talks with Mark Stodola, Mayor of Little Rock, left, as Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., right, watches after Obama walked off of Air Force One at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark., Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Obama is visiting with first responders and families affected by the recent tornados. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: US will help Arkansas rebuild after storms

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Obama arrives in Arkansas for tornado damage tour

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