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The Republican Main Street Partnership retreat, run ex-Rep. Steve LaTourette of Ohio, an ally of Speaker John A. Boehner, is a junket staged during a congressional recess. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

As Main Street deepens schism in GOP, conservative war against compromise heads to Amelia

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Feb. 4, 2014, file photo shows Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss, center, speaking during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

EDITORIAL: Cochran turns catfish into pork

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This July 2, 1964 file photo shows President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing the civil rights bill, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. With Washington mired in congressional gridlock, it’s become trendy in the nation’s capital to long for the days when LBJ could cajole or strong-arm lawmakers on both sides of the aisle into backing his legislative priorities. Implicit in those bouts of nostalgia is a sentiment that frustrates President Barack Obama and his advisers: the notion that the current commander-in-chief could break Washington’s logjam if only he emulated Johnson’s hands-on approach to dealing with Capitol Hill. Standing from left, are: Sen. Everett Dirksen, R-Ill; Rep. Clarence Brown, R-Ohio; Sen. Hubert Humphrey, D-Minn; Rep. Charles Halleck, R-Ind; Rep. William McCullough, R-Ohio; and Rep. Emanuel Celler, D-NY. (AP Photo, File)

For Obama, frustration in comparisons to LBJ

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 1, 2013 file photo, U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., speaks at a meeting of university officials in Little Rock, Ark. Former Chief Justice Jack Holt Jr. Holt, a Democrat, filed an ethics complaint questioning Cotton's work for a management consulting firm claiming the freshman lawmaker violated House rules by not identifying any of the clients for whom he provided services in excess of $5,000. Republican Cotton is running for the U.S. Senate seat now held by U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, a Democrat. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Ethics complaint against Rep. Tom Cotton dismissed

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this May 22, 2013, file photo, then Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner refuses to answer questions as the House Oversight Committee holds a hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

IRS employees, offices found where Obama, Democratic support was ‘commonplace’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Moran loses bid to boost lawmakers’ pay

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

West Virginia editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2014, before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Holder blames gun lobby for contempt of Congress vote

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

South Carolina editorial roundup

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Will Holder bring charges vs. Lois Lerner in IRS scandal?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This Oct. 8, 2013 file photo shows Cornell Woolridge of Windsor Mill, Md., takes part in a demonstration outside the Supreme Court in Washington as the court heard arguments on campaign finance. The Supreme Court struck down limits Wednesday in federal law on the overall campaign contributions the biggest individual donors may make to candidates, political parties and political action committees. The justices said in a 5-4 vote that Americans have a right to give the legal maximum to candidates for Congress and president, as well as to parties and PACs, without worrying that they will violate the law when they bump up against a limit on all contributions, set at $123,200 for 2013 and 2014. That includes a separate $48,600 cap on contributions to candidates. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

SOWELL: Incumbents Protection Act

By Thomas Sowell

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax forms

ALBAN: Drawing the line on IRS rules on tax preparers

By Dan Alban

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Kidnapping the Enemy’

By Joseph C. Goulden - Special to The Washinton Times

FILE - This Dec. 16, 2011 file photo shows Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Veteran Democratic Moran is retiring from Congress. The 68-year Moran, a former mayor of Alexandria, Va., who was first elected in 1990, has been a staunch supporter of federal civilian employees who have a heavy presence in his district. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

HUMPHRIES: Give members of Congress a million dollars a year

By Rusty Humphries

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

DUBAY: Cutting short the ‘extenders’ would boost the economy

By Curtis S. Dubay

Rep. James Moran, D-Va., right, goes over his schedule with press secretary Thomas Scanlon in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. Moran, a Northern Virginia Democrat, ranking member on the House Appropriations Interior Subcommittee and senior member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, announced that he will not seek re-election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Virginia’s Moran laments ‘underpaid’ Congress

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Obama looks over students' work as he visits a classroom at Bladensburg High School on Monday. At Bladensburg, the Obama administration unveiled the $107 million Youth CareerConnect program designed to "deliver real-world learning opportunities for students" and offer specific training in a given field before a student graduates high school. (Associated Press)

Obama touts $107M high school career connection program

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This photo taken Nov. 25, 2013 shows microbiologist Heather Carleton pulling up results of Listeria bacteria DNA while demonstrating a whole-genome sequencing machine called a MiSeq in a foodborne disease outbreak lab at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The nation's disease detectives are beginning a program to try to outsmart outbreaks by routinely decoding the DNA of deadly bacteria and viruses. The initial target: Listeria, a kind of bacteria that's the third-leading cause of death from food poisoning, and one that's especially dangerous to pregnant women. Already, the technology has helped to solve a small listeria outbreak that killed one person in California and sickened seven others in Maryland.(AP Photo/David Goldman)

Businesses ask Congress for more ‘high-tech’ visas

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Loretta Sanchez, California Democrat (Associated Press)

Illegal immigrants stage sit-in in Capitol offices, protest Democrats

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times