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PENNY: Obamacare’s ‘omnishambles’

By Timothy J. Penny

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

ALEXANDER: Obama’s unfair union-election tilt

By John Kline and Lamar Alexander and Phil Roe

Obama seeks quick end to NSA phone records program

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 26, 2013 file photo, Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del. speaks during a ceremony in New Castle, Del. at First State National Monument, which was designated a national monument by President Barack Obama. The House takes up a bill aimed at limiting President Barack Obama's ability to designate new national monuments. Obama created five new monuments last year, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites. Republicans say the bill would not block new monuments, but would require greater public participation in such decisions. Seated behind Carper are, from left, Vice President Joe Biden, New Castle, Del. Mayor Donald Reese and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The monument is the first step toward creating a national park in Delaware, the only state not included in the national park system. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

House votes to limit president on public monuments

By MATTHEW DALY - Associated Press

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius defends President Barack Obama&#8217;s healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act, as she answers questions from Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee during its review of President Obama&#8217;s budget requests, Wednesday, March 12, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama administration: Don’t know how many will benefit from sign-up delay

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2014, prior to testifying before the House Oversight Committee hearing probing whether tea party groups were improperly targeted for increased scrutiny by the government&#8217;s tax agency. Earlier this month, IRS official Lois Lerner was called to testify about the controversy but refused to answer questions by committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and invoked her Fifth Amendment rights at least nine times. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

IRS stonewalls probe of tea party targeting emails

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illinois Chamber urges action on transportation

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 26, 2014,former Congressman Mike Ross walks through the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. The Democratic gubernatorial hopeful is criticizing Republican rival Asa Hutchinson for his role prosecuting the impeachment case against former President Bill Clinton. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)

Ross criticizes Hutchinson over impeachment role

By ANDREW DeMILLO - Associated Press

IRS chief: Producing documents could take years

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Legislature petitions US Congress for amendment

Associated Press

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

** 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

President Barack Obama Obama, accompanied by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, speaks during their joint news conference at the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama doubts Russian retreat in Ukraine, threatens tougher sanctions

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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

Feds want to expand Hanford Reach

Associated Press

**FILE** Iraq War veteran James G. Elliott sits alone following his testimony of his experiences while taking the smoking cessation drug Chantix, before a House Committee on Veterans' Affairs at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 9, 2008, for a hearing titled "Why Does the VA Continue to Give a Suicide-Inducing Drug to Veterans with PTSD?" (The Washington Times)

Group pushes Capitol Hill to help end vets’ suicides

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

7,780 flood insurance policies face hike in Tenn.

By ERIK SCHELZIG - Associated Press

Admiral: Navy is not pushing for BRAC

By BROCK VERGAKIS - Associated Press

Chris Buckley stands behind her home in Indianapolis on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, as she describes how high waters along the White River periodically flood her backyard in the city's flood-prone Ravenswood neighborhood. Buckley is among more than 13,300 Indiana homeowners who can expect 18 percent annual increases in their flood insurance premiums in the years ahead under a bipartisan measure signed Friday, March 21, 2014 by President Barack Obama. Buckley says the increases will threaten the standard of living she and her partner, Cindy Norman, have worked hard to attain. (AP Photo/Rick Callahan)

Indiana braces for flood insurance subsidy changes

By RICK CALLAHAN - Associated Press

ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2014 AT 3 A.M. AND THEREAFTER - Jack Durney, mayor of Hoquiam, Wash., stands on a hill on Monday, March 18, 2014, overlooking his city, the Hoquiam River, and Grays Harbor. Because most of Hoquiam lies in the flood plain, Durney says possible increases in federal flood insurance rates would adversely affect many who live in his town. In the old logging port on an estuarine bay, the great majority of the 8,700 residents live in a flood hazard area. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

AP IMPACT: Flood insurance hikes still a peril

By DAVID B. CARUSO - Associated Press