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Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who signed a "Merry Christmas bill" into law, and his wife, Anita, feted a king-sized Santa at the governor's mansion Sunday. (GOv. rick perry)

Inside the Beltway: Pricey health care doesn’t guarantee a long life

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, New York Democrat (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Congress creates a legislative fortress for military sex-assault policy

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama tours ArcelorMittal, a steel mill in Cleveland, Nov. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama: Hole U.S. ‘digging out of’ requires billions more in unemployment benefits

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This Nov. 4, 2010 file photo shows Phil Schiliro, then-assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, listening as President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters after meeting with his staff and Cabinet members in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington. Schiliro, a former top aide to President Barack Obama is returning to the White House to coordinate policy aspects of the Affordable Care Act health care law. Schiliro was Obama&#8217;s top liaison to Capitol Hill when he helped usher the law through Congress in early 2010. He left the White House about two years ago and moved to New Mexico, where he opened a business consulting nonprofits. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Phil Schiliro to the rescue? Top White House aide returns to get Obamacare on track

Associated Press

President Obama has been trying to reach an agreement about immigration reform with Congress, but activists he addresses are pressuring him to simply use executive authority to halt all deportations. (Associated Press)

Activists urge Obama to go rogue, sidestep Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Debbie Stabenow, Michigan Democrat. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Congress reports ‘great progress’ on farm bill

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

TYRRELL: Pricing unskilled workers out of their jobs

By Patrick Tyrrell

Star Wars planet Tatooine.

Scientists could unlock mystery of life beyond Earth within a decade

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This photo of part of the HealthCare.gov website page featuring information about the SHOP Marketplace is photographed in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013 The Obama administration is delaying yet another aspect of the health care law, putting off until next November the launch of an online portal to the health insurance marketplace for small businesses. The move was needed because repairs are still under way to the troubled HealthCare.gov website, which is the primary way for individuals to apply for insurance, and that has priority, federal officials said. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Federal judge set to decide Obamacare battle over subsidies

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat (Associated Press) ** FILE **

First deadline missed in bipartisan negotiations to avoid shutdown in January

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A vote on a bill that would extend a ban on undetectable plastic guns was delayed until Tuesday so that bill sponsor Rep. Howard Coble, North Carolina Republican, could be present to vote. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Extending plastic gun ban just first step?

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Capitol in Washington during a rally to demand that the U.S. Congress investigate the National Security Agency's mass surveillance programs Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Privacy board springs to life after NSA revelations

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Oct. 7, 2002 file picture, a U.S. Air Force pilot in an A-10 Thunderbolt attack jet returns from a combat mission, in Bagram air base, northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

LANDRITH: Will Obama ground America’s top tank-killer?

By George Landrith

Williama Bozeman was stunned was stunned when the government's central bank in 2017 went to war with him "out of nowhere" by filing a federal lawsuit and two challenges to his patents with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Associated Press/File)

Retailers plead for federal help in war against ‘patent trolls’

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

PARANZINO: A union in every way but name

By Mike Paranzino

Job seekers line up to talk with recruiters during a job fair in Atlanta on Thursday, May 30, 2013.
(AP Photo/John Amis)

EDITORIAL: Falsifying government reports to get re-elected?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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President Obama downplays the angry health care debate, telling conservative radio talk-show host Michael Smerconish on Thursday that "passing a big bill like this is always messy."

LAMBRO: Blaming others for Obamacare

By Donald Lambro

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Job applicants line up at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, N.Y., to apply for work in what is shaping up to be the longest recession since the Great Depression. Extended benefits are about to run out for thousands of the unemployed.

Spending on social welfare rose as economy tanked during recession

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept. 3, 2013, file photo, shows Rep. Henry "Trey" Radel, R-Fla., on Capitol Hill in Washington. The chairman of the Republican Party of Florida on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, called for Radel to step down following his recent cocaine conviction. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

GOP urges Fla. Rep. Trey Radel to resign after cocaine charge

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Rep. Trey Radel, Florida Republican (left), sits in a smoking section Tuesday behind the Hazelden addiction treatment facility in Naples, Fla. The freshman congressman is receiving treatment at the facility during a leave of absence after pleading guilty last week to a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge. (associated press)

Radel resists Republican calls for his resignation

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times