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Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, greets Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013, prior to her testimony before the committee on problems with the debut of the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obamacare official: Bugs can be fixed

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Federal employees flood the streets to get lunch from food trucks at L'Enfant Plaza on the first day back to work after the government shutdown, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 17, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Feds feel shirked for shutdown work, sue for double pay

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

WALDEN: A real ceiling on debt

By Greg Walden

Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, says he wants a joint select committee formed from several individual Senate committees to investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)

Sen. Lindsey Graham: Blocking nominees over Benghazi is not ‘over the top’

By Jacqueline Klimas and David Eldridge - The Washington Times

Immigration reform advocates march and rally through the downtown streets , Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, in Orlando, Fla. The march and rally was to support passage of a pathway-to-citizenship bill for immigration reform. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

STEIN: Not just a diversion, immigration-reform is a cynical, corrupt sellout

By Dan Stein

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that journalists "should be concerned" about becoming "soft targets" for terror attacks. (Associated Press)

Lindsey Graham will lead charge in Senate for abortion ban after 20 weeks

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This photo taken Oct. 16, 2013 shows marijuana clone plants that are used to grow medical marijuana displayed under a light, at The Joint, a medical marijuana cooperative in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) **FILE**

Pot capital of America? D.C. on fast track to decriminalizing marijuana

Associated Press

**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)

Senate intel committee approves NSA snooping, with restrictions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

PAUL: Ending secrecy at the Federal Reserve

By Sen. Rand Paul

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pauses on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, prior to testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the difficulties plaguing the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Sebelius, President Barack Obama's top health official faced tough questioning by a congressional committee Wednesday that will demand she explain how the administration stumbled so badly in its crippled online launch of the president's health care overhaul. (AP Photo/ J. Scott Applewhite)

Sebelius on Obamacare website: ‘Hold me accountable for this debacle’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is deporting fewer illegal immigrants this fiscal year, but a larger percentage of them have no criminal records. The numbers suggest that the Obama administration is struggling to meet its stated goals. (ICE via Associated Press)**FILE**

Deportations plummet in 2013, lowest since 2007: Report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Nov. 16, 2010, file photo, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo. poses for a photograph in front of the Will Rogers Statue, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Skelton, who built a reputation as a military expert and social conservative during 34 years representing western and central Missouri in the U.S. House, died Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 in Virginia. He was 81. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg, File)

Ike Skelton, former Missouri representative, died Monday at 81

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Former President Bill Clinton. (AP Photo/Zach Gibson)

National Parks are costly to keep up, but lawmakers want more

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sean Penn (Associated Press)

Sean Penn: Commit tea partyers, Ted Cruz ‘by executive order’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican, speaks at a town-hall meeting on Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013, in West Bend, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Patriot Act author introduces bill to halt NSA snooping

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Change? Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to crack down on rampant political corruption, but that was before he took office. (Associated Press)

Chinese president persecutes activists despite promise to tackle graft

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, during a memorial service for the late former House Speaker Thomas S. Foley. Foley was a 30-year veteran of the House who died last week at the age of 84. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama uses Foley memorial to blast media, gerrymandering

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by William Brown

SOWELL: Campaign fundraising becomes extortion

By Thomas Sowell

Witnesses, from left, Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin; Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard Law School; David LaBahn, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys president and CEO; Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies at Cato Institute; John R. Lott, Jr., president, Crime Prevention Research Center of Swarthmore, Pa.; and Lucia McBath of Atlanta, Ga.; are sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, prior to testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on so-called "stand your ground laws." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

‘Stand your ground’ gun laws produce partisan divide at Hill hearing

By Kellan Howell and Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington TImes - The Washington Times