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Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell gestures while speaking before the House Committee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Latest: Fed to end runoff of bond holdings this year

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, speaks to the media as he departs after testifying before a closed door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Former lawyer casts Trump as ‘racist,’ ‘con man’

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, becomes emotional as he finishes a day of testimony to the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Michael Cohen testimony lacks Trump-Russia collusion proof Democrats sought

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, arrives to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Michael Cohen says it’s not his responsibility to correct BuzzFeed story shot down by Robert Mueller

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Russia, hush money, lies: Takeaways from Cohen’s testimony

By CHAD DAY and STEPHEN BRAUN and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press

This Feb. 6, 2015, file photo shows a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine on a countertop at a pediatrics clinic in Greenbrae, Calif. The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017 _ and part of the rising threat is misinformation that makes some parents balk at a crucial vaccine, federal health officials told Congress Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019 .(AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Measles resurgence fueled by ‘vaccine hesitancy,’ officials say

By Gabriella Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 19, 2019, photo, Josh Rubin demonstrates in front of the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. House Democrats are laying the groundwork to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

The Latest: Panel approves subpoena for family separations

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, left, and others, speaks about a resolution to block President Donald Trump's emergency border security declaration on Capitol Hill, Monday, Feb. 25, 2019 in Washington. House Democrats have introduced a resolution to block the national emergency declaration that President Donald Trump issued last week to fund his long-sought wall along the U.S-Mexico border, setting up a fight that could result in Trump's first-ever veto. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House votes to overturn Trump emergency declaration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, attends a hearing on drug prices, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Latest: Senators urge pharma CEOs to rein in lobbyists

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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

The Latest: Powell: Fed in ‘no rush’ to decide rate moves

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In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, speaks during the signing of an order withdrawing federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands, at EPA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) **FILE**

Joni Ernst urges Congress to get handle on costly projects, endless boondoggles

By James Varney - The Washington Times

Michael Cohen, left, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives to testify before a closed door hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee accompanied by his lawyer Lanny Davis of Washington, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: Cohen says Trump disparaged black people

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a closed-door GOP meeting with Vice President Mike Pence, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

The Latest: House blocks Trump’s emergency declaration

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Congress approves major public lands, conservation bill

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

In a Monday, April 5, 2004, file photo, riders wait to board an arriving train at the D.C. Metro Center, in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File) **FILE**

House members raise hacking fears with D.C. Metro over future fleet of railcars

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

"The bill is solely meant to intimidate doctors and restrict patients' access to care and has nothing, nothing, nothing to do with protecting children," said Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. (Associated Press)

Senate Democrats block Republicans’ anti-infanticide bill

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Make Congress read own bills

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., stops to speak to members of the media after attending the weekly GOP conference luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

White House: Trump budget to boost military outside of spending caps

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen.. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., stands during a break in a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Tillis says he’ll vote to block President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration at the border with Mexico, becoming the second Senate Republican to do so. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

NC’s Tillis is 2nd GOP senator to oppose Trump emergency

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Stuart Wexler leads his Advanced Placement government class in a discussion at Hightstown High School in Hightstown, N.J., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. The high school students set their sights on an ambitious goal _ federal legislation to create a national archive of documents involving decades of unsolved civil rights cases. Students at a New Jersey school had worked on it for years. Now, all they needed was President Donald Trump’s signature. But if he didn’t act in time, the bill would die. The students took to social media and enlisted the aid of a new senator from Alabama. It worked: Trump signed and it’s now law. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Teens successfully tweet Trump for support of archives bill

By LISA MASCARO - Associated Press