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This photo taken April 14, 2014 shows Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx speaking to the media and local government officials about federal transportation funding at the Montgomery County Commissioner's office in Dayton, Ohio. On the road in a tour bus this week, Foxx is urging Congress to quickly approve legislation to pay for highway and transit programs amid warnings that the U.S. government’s Highway Trust Fund is nearly broke. If allowed to run dry, that could threaten to set back or shut down projects across the country, force widespread layoffs of construction workers and delay needed repairs and improvements. (AP Photo/Skip Peterson)

EDITORIAL: Highway (trust fund) robbery

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban fighter in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban on Wednesday, June 4, 2014, released a video showing the handover of Bergdahl to U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, touting the swap of the American soldier for five Taliban detainees from Guantanamo as a significant achievement for the insurgents. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Lawmakers say fear for Bergdahl’s life is no excuse for Obama’s secrecy

By Ben Wolfgang and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Illustration on GOP infighting in Mississippi by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

JOHNSON: Misspending GOP capital on Cochran in Mississippi

By Drew Johnson

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus hugs first lady Michelle Obama as Mabus introduces her during a keel-laying ceremony for a submarine that will become the USS Illinois, Monday June 2, 2014, at the Electric Boat company in North Kingstown, RI. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

Navy considers banning tobacco sales on bases

By JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press

Deputy Attorney General James Cole told the Senate intelligence committee that the administration is looking to end bulk data collection while allowing for enough flexibility to get large volumes of records if they are necessary to investigations. (Associated Press)

NSA phone snooping end in sight

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's disregard for law by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: When the president disregards the law

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., listens at right as the committee's Vice Chairman Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 3, 2014, following a closed-door committee briefing. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Clinton promised to consult Hill on Gitmo swaps

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

CURL: Is Obama really that stupid?

By Joseph Curl

In this image taken from video obtained from Voice Of Jihad website, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, sits in a vehicle guarded by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad Website via AP video)

Congress twice rejected release of Taliban from Gitmo in trade for Bergdahl

By Stephen Dinan and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Both parties to blame for nation’s demise

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This June 28, 2012 file photo shows people waiting in line to hear cases at the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 28, 2012. A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that prosecutors may not rely on an international chemical weapons treaty to convict a woman who attacked her husband's mistress. The justices threw out the conviction of Carol Anne Bond of Lansdale, Pa., who was prosecuted under a 1999 law based on the chemical weapons treaty. Bond served a six-year prison term after being convicted of using toxic chemicals that caused a thumb burn on a friend who had become her husband's lover. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

EDITORIAL: A woman scorned is not an international incident

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Photo illustration Bowe Bergdahl, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama.
President Barack Obama speaks about the future of US troops in Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 27, 2014, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. The president will seek to keep 9,800 US troops in Afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year and then will withdraw most of those forces by the end of 2016. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Presidential promises broken

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

CREWS & YOUNG: A model for rolling back outdated regulations

By Wayne Crews and Ryan Young

FILE - In this April 1, 2014, file photo, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Barack Obama scored a rare win in his 5-year-old campaign to close the federal prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a Senate panel approved giving him the authority to transfer terror suspects to the United States if Congress signs off on a comprehensive plan to shutter the facility. Levin hailed the defense bill provision as a significant change in the long standoff between the Obama administration and bipartisan congressional opponents over the post-Sept. 11 prison for terror suspects. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

Sen. Levin: Congress ‘should not be surprised’ by Bergdahl swap

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 8, 2014 file photo shows House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking on Capitol Hill in Washington. To congressional Republicans, "Benghazi" is shorthand for incompetence and cover-up. Democrats hear it as the hollow sound of pointless investigations. It is, in fact, a Mediterranean port city in Libya that was the site of an attack on an American diplomatic compound on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. That's nearly all that U.S. politicians can agree on about Benghazi. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama never consulted with Congress on Taliban prisoners: Boehner

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki pauses as he speaks at a meeting of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, Friday, May 30, 2014, in Washington. President Barack Obama says he plans to have a "serious conversation" with Shinseki about whether he can stay in his job. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Watchdog faults VA over clinic leases

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2014. Carney was asked about the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from Afghanistan and a sweeping initiative by the Obama administration to curb pollutants blamed for global warming. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Carney: Obama administration made Bergdahl rationale clear to Congress

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, California Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has included in the defense budget an order for the Army to consider ready-made systems for processing battlefield data. (Associated Press)

White House defends keeping Congress in dark on Bergdahl

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Sam Graves, Missouri Republican and chairman of the Small Business Committee. (Associated Press)

Rep. Sam Graves: Where are the Obamacare numbers from small businesses?

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times