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Conn. US senators cautious on surveillance reforms

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** FILE ** President Obama speaks at a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Oct. 24, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama: ‘I’ll act on my own’ to make ‘breakthrough year’ happen

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This Jan. 25, 1988 file photo shows President Ronald Reagan holding up 14-pound continuing resolution for the budget, part of a total package weighing 43-pounds, which the president said was two months late from Congress, during his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington on January 25, 1988. Vice President George H.W. Bush, left, and House Speaker James Wright of Texas listen behind him. Last week’s 1,582-page bill was really 12 bills wrapped into one, negotiated in the back rooms of the Capitol by a relative handful of people and presented to the House and Senate as an unamendable, take-it-or-leave-it proposition. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

Analysis: Congress aims to fix busted budgeting

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

In this Jan. 17, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama Talks about National Security Agency surveillance at the Justice Department in Washington. Obama’s orders to change some U.S. surveillance practices put the burden on Congress to deal with a national security controversy that has alarmed Americans and outraged foreign allies. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama fuels reform on some but not all NSA spying

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama tightens reins on surveillance programs

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

FILE - This Nov. 17, 2013 file photo shows construction continuing on the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. A budget deal approved by Congress restores funding for some national arts and cultural programs, but others will still see reductions. In a funding bill approved this week, lawmakers decided against providing construction money for the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower memorial in Washington. The deal provides $1 million for salaries and expenses of the federal memorial commission, dismissing its $51 million budget request. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Congress says no to Eisenhower Memorial funding

By BRETT ZONGKER - Associated Press

President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Questions and answers about Obama’s new NSA rules

By CONNIE CASS - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

HEIDEMAN: Countering illegal boycotts of Israel

By Richard D. Heideman

President Obama speaks at Justice Department headquarters in D.C. on Friday.

Obama calls for immediate checks, long-term changes to NSA snooping

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Government's secret backdoor to your email (Alexander Hunter - The Washington Times)

CODEVILLA: Government’s secret backdoor to your email

By Angelo M. Codevilla

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates signs copies of his new book: "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary of War," during a book signing at the Pentagon, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Gates opposes Hill drive for new Iran sanctions

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: Obama did not believe in the strategy he approved

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Associated Press)

House Democrats blocked in bid to cancel recess, continue unemployment benefits fight

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

In this June 29, 2013 photo, storm clouds form over grain bins on a soybean field near Pleasant Plains, Ill. Falling corn prices and questions about ethanol demand could lead Illinois farmers to plant fewer acres of corn this year and instead are taking a closer look at soybeans this year. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

EDITORIAL: Playing the Washington game

FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during an end-of-the year news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. Obama is expected to endorse changes to the way the government collects millions of Americans’ phone records for possible future surveillance, but leave many of the specific reforms for Congress to sort out, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the White House intelligence review. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama’s NSA announcements just the starting point

By STEPHEN BRAUN and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Republican leaders push bill to update Voting Rights Act

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Republican lawmakers arrive at the Capitol as the Senate votes to approve a $1.1 trillion spending package, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the likelihood of an election-year government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. From left to right are: Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan. The legislation is a follow-up to the budget compromise the two parties pushed through Congress in December that set overall spending limits for the next two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate easily passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

By ANDREW TAYLOR - Associated Press

From left, Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., arrive at the Capitol as the Senate votes to approve a $1.1 trillion spending package, the Omnibus Appropriations Act, a bipartisan compromise that all but banishes the likelihood of an election-year government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. The legislation is a follow-up to the budget compromise the two parties pushed through Congress in December that set overall spending limits for the next two years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress passes $1.1 trillion spending bill

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The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse.

Golden Hammer: VA hit for waste, lack of oversight on medical implants

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, where he talked about unemployment benefits. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 2,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 326,000, a sign that layoffs are weighing less on the job market and economic growth. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Exploiting the miserable