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** FILE ** In this March 26, 2014, file photo, California state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, right, leaves the San Francisco Federal Building in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

CURL: It’s the Democrats’ turn for a ‘culture of corruption’

By Joseph Curl

** FILE ** In this April 1, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama, waves to the audience as he leaves the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 1, 2014, after speaking about the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

GOP seeks coverage choices in health law they hate

By DAVID ESPO - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2014, file photo, Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., officially announces his candidacy for the U.S. Senate at Denver Lumber Company in Denver. Gardner will run against Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. The Senate race in Colorado has shot toward the top of the nation&#8217;s most competitive contests this midterm election year, giving the Democratic incumbent a tougher battle than he expected and Republicans a new pickup opportunity in their drive to win the chamber&#8217;s majority. Udall responded to Gardner&#8217;s surprise challenge by quickly trying to define his opponent as an extremist. (AP Photo/Chris Schneider, File)

House Republicans to push gas exports

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Conn. Immigrants rally against deportation

Associated Press

FILE - This March 31, 2014, file photo, shows a waiting filled with applicants waiting to be called during a health care enrollment event at the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond, Calif. Seven million sign-ups proves there's an appetite in the country for President Barack Obama's health care law, but it doesn't guarantee success for America's newest social program. The top priorities for the administration now guaranteeing that premiums remain affordable next year, making enrollment simpler, and improving subpar customer service. Republican opponents also face some tough questions: as millions of people get insurance, how long can the GOP's repeal strategy remain a viable political option? (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

7M enrolled doesn’t guarantee health law’s success

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

$Supporters of the immigrant advocacy group, Puente Movement, hold\ a rally outside the immigration detention center in Eloy, Ariz., to protest the record numbers of deportations that have taken place under President Barack Obama's administration on Saturday, April 5, 2014. Immigration advocates and supporters rallied Saturday in cities across the country in a renewed effort to push President Barack Obama to put a freeze on deportations. (AP Photo/The Republic, Nick Oza) MARICOPA COUNTY OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES$

Rallies in cities across US decrying deportation

By TERRY TANG - Associated Press

Bevin, conservatives rally in McConnell’s backyard

By BILL BARROW - Associated Press

FILE - In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. On Friday, April 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including U.S.-born al-Qaida leader al-Awlaki. Collyer said the case raises serious constitutional issues and is not easy to answer, but that &quot;on these facts and under this circuit's precedent,&quot; the court will grant the Obama administration's request. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT

Suit over deadly drone strikes is tossed by judge

By PETE YOST - Associated Press

Kansas state Sen. Tom Holland, left, a Baldwin City Democrat, criticizes a bill to bring Kansas into a compact with other states looking to avoid the federal health care overhaul during a debate, Friday, April 4, 2014, at the Statehouse in the Senate, in Topeka, Kan. Debating him is Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, right, a Shawnee Republican who strongly supports the measure. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

Kansas lawmakers approve plan for health compact

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

Judge dismisses lawsuit against Obama administration in drone strike attacks

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 2, 2002, file photo, dairy farmer Paul Peter stands by his emergency pond near his house at Castleton-on-Hudson, N.Y. Industry groups and more than a dozen GOP senators are urging the Obama administration to reconsider a proposal by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers. The new rule seeks to clarify which waters or wetlands would trigger federal requirements, such as permitting and state water quality certification. Seasonal and rain-dependent streams, and wetlands near rivers and streams, would be covered; others would be considered on a case-by-case basis to determine if they play a significant role in the quality of downstream waters. Landowners and developers say the government has gone too far in regulating isolated ponds or marshes with no direct connection to navigable waterways. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight, File)

Lawmakers push EPA for more time on water rule

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press

President Barack Obama smiles as he stands with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, after speaking to the media, Friday, April 4, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Judge dismisses drone lawsuit against Obama administration over killed U.S. citizens

By Pete Yost - Associated Press

In this April 2, 2014, photo, a Myanmar Muslim family, who identify themselves as long-persecuted &quot;Rohingya&quot; Muslims, look out from their tents at Da Paing camp for Muslim refugees in north of Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Two years after the United States announced the normalization of diplomatic relations with Myanmar, optimism in Washington over the nation’s embrace of democracy is waning and concern over the plight of minority Muslims is growing. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

US optimism ebbs over Myanmar reforms

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

**FILE** Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama admin.: 3 million enrolled in Medicaid from Obamacare launch to end of February

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

23 are held in deportation protest

Associated Press

FILE - This July 23, 2013 file photo shows Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif. on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Republicans are pushing a plan to give young immigrants brought to the country illegally by their parents a path to resident status if they join the U.S. military. Denham said Friday he would press for a vote on his legislation either as a free-standing bill or as an addition to the defense authorization measure that the House will consider in May. Denham immediately faced conservative opposition. Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama circulated a letter among his colleagues opposing any attempt to add immigration legislation to the defense bill. His intent was to collect as many signatures as possible and deliver the letter to House leadership. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

GOP Immigration backers see service path to status

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks as she delivers the keynote address at the launch of the U.S. Global Development Lab, an initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), on Thursday April 3, 2014 in New York. Congress and USAID are headed for a showdown over the Obama administration's creation of a Cuban Twitter communications network to undermine the communist government in Cuba. USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah is expected to testify on Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations State Department and foreign operations subcommittee. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

ISTOOK: Benghazi cover-up was more to protect Hillary than Obama

By Ernest Istook

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the shooting at Fort Hood, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: We will get to bottom of Ford Hood shooting

By NEDRA PICKLER - Associated Press