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**FILE** Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's non-voting member of Congress (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Norton: Congress won’t pass equal-pay law this year

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Brian Snoddy, a resident of Nevada's 1st Congressional District since 2011, gets treatment on his neck from his therapist Joseph Indrieri at Dynamic Spine &amp; Sport Rehabilitation in Las Vegas on March 26, 2014. Snoddy, who suffered a debilitating neck injury while working in 2010, started receiving his Social Security benefits only after getting assistance from U.S. Representative Dina Titus. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jason Bean)

Amid gridlock, lawmakers focus on constituent woes

By LAURA MYERS - Associated Press

FILE - In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. On Friday, April 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including U.S.-born al-Qaida leader al-Awlaki. Collyer said the case raises serious constitutional issues and is not easy to answer, but that &quot;on these facts and under this circuit's precedent,&quot; the court will grant the Obama administration's request. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT

Suit over deadly drone strikes is tossed by judge

By PETE YOST - Associated Press

Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., who represents Newtown, Conn., and Rep. Ron Barber, D-Ariz., who took over for Rep. Gabby Giffords who was severely injured in a shooting in Tuscon, Ariz., sit together at a special House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee hearing on gun violence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. The lawmakers heard from a witness panel that included Newtown, Conn. School Superintendent Janet Robinson, Emily Nottingham, mother of Tucson shooting victim Gabe Zimmerman, Chaska, Minnesota Police Chief Scott Knight, and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Reps. to Boehner, Pelosi: Take gun riders out of appropriations process

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Djou enters race for Hawaii congressional seat

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

** FILE ** Democratic Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia speaks with President Obama at a townhall meeting. (Facebook, Rep. Jim Moran)

Members of Congress are underpaid, can’t live ‘decently’ in D.C.: Rep. Moran

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama smiles as he stands with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, after speaking to the media, Friday, April 4, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Judge dismisses drone lawsuit against Obama administration over killed U.S. citizens

By Pete Yost - Associated Press

Amid gridlock, lawmakers focus on constituent woes

By LAURA MYERS - Associated Press

Students gather behind a business looking for a Internet signal for their smart phones in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The U.S. Agency for International Development masterminded the creation of a &quot;Cuban Twitter,&quot; a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, built with secret shell companies and financed through foreign banks, The Associated Press has learned. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. Its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them. In 2012, the text messaging service vanished as mysteriously as it appeared. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

White House defends ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest

By DESMOND BUTLER and JACK GILLUM and ALBERTO ARCE - Associated Press

Conservation Congress hearings set for April 14

Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Only Congress can change laws

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Former IRS official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2014, during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the the agency's targeting of tea party groups, where she invoked her constitutional right not to incriminate herself. (Associated Press)

House GOP sets first vote to hold Lois Lerner in contempt over IRS targeting

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 31, 2014. Carney was asked several questions about the deadline for people to sign up for the health care under the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House: Cuba Internet program no secret

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Fire fight: Lawmakers push EPA to ax stove rules

By HENRY C. JACKSON - Associated Press

President Barack Obama meets with business leaders to discuss immigration reform, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Immigration activists to keep vigil outside White House

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Congress, watchdogs stonewalled in probes of administration

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Fred Upton, House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman. (Associated Press)

EPA hijacking energy policy, GOP critics say

By Meghan Drake - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Free-for-all: Supreme Court strikes down overall limit on campaign giving

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Congressmen seek House support for Savannah harbor

Associated Press