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FILE - In this March 20, 2014 file photo, Gov. John Kitzhaber speaks during a news conference in Salem, Ore. on Thursday, March 20, 2014 about the state's health insurance exchange. A state-funded audit found a failure by the exchange's managers to heed reports of problems, poor communication and what it described as &quot;unrealistic optimism.&quot; In announcing results of the audit, Kitzhaber said he was angry and disappointed in a process that had caused so much confusion and uncertainty among consumers. (AP Photo/Statesman-Journal, Kobbi R. Blair)

Bungling mars health care deadline in some states

By SANDRA CHEREB - Associated Press

Obama invites Red Sox to White House on April 1

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In this photo taken on Monday, March, 24, 2014, World War One graves surround the chapel at the Flanders Field American Cemetery in Waregem, Belgium on Monday, March 24, 2014. The cemetery contains the remains of 368 U.S. WWI military and support personnel. Of those remains, 21 are unknown and could not be identified. On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 President Barack Obama will honor those Americans who died in a struggle so all-encompassing, so horrific, it simply became known as the Great War. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Obama honors American WWI dead at Flanders Field

By RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Obama says US to host next nuclear summit in 2016

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Obama to kill Navy’s Tomahawk, Hellfire missile programs in budget decimation

By Adam Kredo - Washington Free Beacon

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, as they pose for a group photo on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

Obama expresses concern Russia moving on Ukraine

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

This March 25, 2014, photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov as photographed in Washington. If you’re waiting until the last minute to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama’s health care law, a little extra patience might come in handy. HealthCare.gov, the online portal to taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, runs slowly when compared with major private health insurer websites. That’s according to an analysis for The Associated Press by Compuware, a Detroit company that measures website performance. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

HHS grants extra time to enroll for health care

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, left, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, smile during a meeting with other G7 world leaders in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014, in the sidelines of the Nuclear security Summit. In a day of delicate diplomacy he sought to rally the international community Monday around efforts to isolate Russia following its incursion into Ukraine. Nuclear terrorism was the official topic as Obama and other world leaders streamed in to a convention center in The Hague for a two-day Nuclear Security Summit. But the real focus was on a hurriedly scheduled meeting of the Group of Seven industrialized economies to address the crisis in Ukraine on the sidelines of the nuclear summit. (AP Photo/Jerry Lampen, POOL)

Crimea crisis puts US spying in new spotlight

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

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LAMBRO: Gushing news stories mask Hillary’s uphill climb

By Donald Lambro

President Barack Obama briefly glances up toward the sunset after arriving Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Obama is traveling on a three-day West Coast swing to Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles that will feature a bit of official business but mostly fundraising for the Democratic party. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

PHILLIPS: How to end Obamacare

By Judson Phillips

This March 25, 2014, photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov as photographed in Washington. If you&#8217;re waiting until the last minute to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama&#8217;s health care law, a little extra patience might come in handy. HealthCare.gov, the online portal to taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, runs slowly when compared with major private health insurer websites. That&#8217;s according to an analysis for The Associated Press by Compuware, a Detroit company that measures website performance. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Obamacare applicants get new deadline

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Monday, March 17, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The New York Times reported late Monday, March 24, 2014, that the Obama administration this week will propose that Congress overhaul the NSA's electronic surveillance program. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama to propose ending NSA’s phone call sweep

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, left, Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer, second left, Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, third from left, British Prime Minister David Cameron, fifth from right, Indonesia's Vice President Boediono, fourth from right, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, third from right, and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, second right, attend an informal plenary session on the last day of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Bart Maat, POOL)

Obama: Nuke security deal makes world safer

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2013, file photo Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. speaks at a news conference and Capitol Hill in Washington. Lithuania's energy minister pleaded with U.S. officials Tuesday to release natural gas resources into the world market to counter Russian influence in his country across Europe. Lithuania is completely dependent on Russia for natural gas and pays 30 percent more than other European countries, the energy minister told senators at a hearing Tuesday. &quot;This is not just unfair. This is abuse.'' Landrieu held the hearing Tuesday _ her first hearing as chair of the Senate energy panel _ to focus on economic and foreign policy benefits of exporting natural gas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Senate hears pleas for gas exports to Europe

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

CORTMAN: Abortion pill mandate, Hobby Lobby and why the Supreme Court should honor faith

By David Cortman

In this Monday, March 17, 2014 photo, Jennifer Hunt, center, poses for a photo outside her home with her son Trystan Morgan, 7, and daughter Silver Templeton, 11, in Noble, Okla. Hunt, whose husband was a soldier killed in the Fort Hood shooting, could get relief from a $6,000 tax bill under a measure Oklahoma legislators are considering that would grant some families benefits similar to those given after acts of terrorism. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Fort Hood widow fears losing house due to taxes

By BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE - Associated Press

Lauren Wright of Washington, D.C., right, and other birth control supporters 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, which mandate that private insurance plans must cover birth control, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Federal court skeptical of Obamacare tax subsidies

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Obama sends prayers to Washington amid mudslide

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Local citizens wave flags symbolizing the Soviet victory in WWII and Russian flags gather in support of Eastern Pro-Russian Ukrainians in their fight against Ukrainian government in Simferopol, Crimea on Monday, March 24, 2014. Ukraine's fledgling government ordered troops to pull back Monday from Crimea, ending days of wavering as Russian forces stormed and seized bases on the peninsula.(AP Photo/Max Vetrov)

Reid slams GOP over Crimea; Senate bill advances

By BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

This screenshot made Nov. 26, 2013, shows the Department of Health and Human Services' web page for the Spanish language version HealthCare.gov. The nation’s largest minority group risks being left behind by President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. Hispanics account for about one-third of the nation’s uninsured, but all signs indicate that they remain largely on the sidelines as the White House races to meet a goal of 6 million sign-ups by March 31. (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Latinos being left behind in health care overhaul

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press