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FILE - This Aug. 23, 2013 file photo shows wind turbines silhouetted by the setting sun near Beaumont, Kansas. The head of the Fish and Wildlife Service tells a House panel he is unable to comply with a request for thousands of documents related to enforcement of environmental laws at wind farms where eagles and other birds have been killed. Agency director Dan Ashe said he and his staff have made &quot;super-human efforts' to supply the documents, but said the amount of documents being sought and the timeframe were &quot;completely unreasonable.'' House Republicans say the administration has engaged in a &quot;deliberate, 10-month-long slow roll&quot; to supply documents. An Associated Press investigation last year revealed that the Obama administration was failing to enforce the law for wind power, even as it pursued bird deaths caused by oil companies. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

GOP: Administration stonewalling on bird deaths

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer he celebrated from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

EDITORIAL: Obama at the Vatican

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Barack Obama is greeted by Belgian King Phillippe, left, and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo upon his arrival on Air Force One at Brussels International Airport, Tuesday, March 25, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. Obama is visiting Brussels to attend European Union and NATO summits. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama prods allies while downplaying Russian power

By Jim Kuhnhenn - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 26, 2013 file photo, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del. speaks during a ceremony in New Castle, Del. at First State National Monument, which was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama. The House takes up a bill aimed at limiting President Barack Obama's ability to designate new national monuments. Obama created five new monuments last year, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites. Republicans say the bill would not block new monuments, but would require greater public participation in such decisions. Seated behind Carper are, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, New Castle, Del. Mayor Donald Reese and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The monument is the first step toward creating a national park in Delaware, the only state not included in the national park system. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

House votes to limit president on public monuments

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Illustration on U.N. control of the internet by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

MAY: Obama may give Internet control to ‘global community’

By Randolph J. May

Biden: Raising minimum wage ‘good for business’

By KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014, following a closed-door Republican strategy session. Boehner is one of a number of U.S. officials named on Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s sanctions list. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Boehner calls latest Obamacare delay ‘a joke’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

High court bolsters domestic violence gun ban law

Associated Press

Connecticut approves highest state minimum wage

By SUSAN HAIGH - Associated Press

**FILE** Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, center, flanked by Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., left, and Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

GOP lawmakers slam latest Obamacare delay

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 20, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama making a statement on Ukraine, on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington. Even if Russia makes no further advances into Ukraine, can the West’s relationship with Moscow go back to business as usual? That’s the complex question underlying President Barack Obama’s discussions in Europe this week, one that poses particular challenges for the U.S. leader, whose foreign policy agenda has seemingly inextricable links to Russia. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Analysis: Russia deeply linked to Obama priorities

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defends President Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, as she answers questions from Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee during its review of President Obama&#8217;s budget requests, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama administration: Don’t know how many will benefit from sign-up delay

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., flanked by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., discuss Democrat legislative agenda during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Raising the minimum wage, pay inequity, and other issues affecting the middle class are at the heart of their &#8220;fair shot for everyone&#8221; plan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Harry Reid defends Obamacare delay: Some folks ‘not educated on how to use the Internet’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses before answering a questions during a joint news conference with EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the EU-US summit meeting, Wednesday, march 26, 2014, at the EU Council building in Brussels, Belgium. Obama is on a one day trip to Belgium to shore up commitments he received from allies in The Hague, Netherlands, to reassure Eastern Europeans members of NATO that the alliance will stand by them and to make a larger point about European security a quarter-century after the fall of the Iron Curtain.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

CURL: U.S. won’t be world’s richest nation for long

By Joseph Curl

3 Secret Service agents benched for boozing before Obama trip

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, center, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, attend the opening session of the Nuclear Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, March 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, POOL)

Obama’s Russia sanctions unlikely to make impact, experts say

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Obama says NSA proposal satisfied public concerns

Associated Press

A group of people organized by the NYC Light Brigade and the women's rights group UltraViolet, use letters in lights to spell out their opinion, in front of the Supreme Court, Monday, March 24, 2014, in Washington. Holding the &quot;H&quot; in &quot;Hands&quot; is Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. The Supreme Court is weighing whether corporations have religious rights that exempt them from part of the new health care law that requires coverage of birth control for employees at no extra charge. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Birth control rule seems to divide Supreme Court

By MARK SHERMAN - Associated Press

Herschel Pecker of Washington, D.C., left, and others rallying on both sides of the debate over private insurance plans must cover birth control at a rally outside the Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in Affordable Care Act challenges, the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Female Supreme Court justices worry about corporations using religious objections to duck rules

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times