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“Washington, D.C., makes up too many excuses. I’m not taking it anymore. I hope you aren’t taking it anymore. Let’s get to work, and let’s get a farm bill now.” - Rep. Kristi Noem, South Dakota Republican and member of the House Agriculture Committee. (Associated Press)

Farm bill has hard Hill row to hoe

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

(Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times)

NAPOLITANO: What if November changes nothing?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Illustration Homeland Security Bureaucracy by John Camejo for The Washington Times

FEULNER: For homeland security, it’s bureaucracy as usual

By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times

**FILE** House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, talks July 24, 2012, to reporters following a closed-door political strategy session at the Capitol in Washington. (Associated Press)

Boehner fears nation may fall off ‘fiscal cliff’

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

David John is a senior research fellow in retirement security and financial institutions at the Heritage Foundation (Heritage Foundation)

Insurers want to keep subsidy for losses from terrorist acts

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican (Associated Press)

Russian trade bill lacks full support

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

**FILE** A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin stands outside the Treasury Building in Washington on Aug. 8, 2011. (Associated Press)

Moody’s warns of downgrade from AAA without budget deal

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney arrives for the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

After missed deadline, White House to outline defense cuts by Friday

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, California Republican, is the House majority whip. (Associated Press)

Congress to take up a stopgap spending bill

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C. (Associated Press)

Congress returns for short pre-election session

By Andrew Taylor - Associated Press

President Obama, who visited the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in April 2010, subsequently said, “By the mid-2030s, I believe, we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it.” (Associated Press)

Space exploration is star-crossed on campaign trail

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Parties Versus the People’

By John R. Coyne Jr. - Special to The Washington Times

**FILE** Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the militant group the Haqqani network, speaks Aug. 22, 1998, during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan. (Associated Press)

U.S. declares Haqqani network a terrorist body

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee - Associated Press

The Pentagon. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Report: Half of military bases lack voting facility

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

GRAY: Regulatory reform is job one

By C. Boyden Gray - Special to The Washington Times

Illustration: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

GROVER: CFPB’s unchecked power

By Eric Grover

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Court lacks power to write law

The Washington Times

Washington Mayor Vincent C. Gray (left) and D.C. Council member Mary Cheh (right) head to vehicles outside the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord, N.H., on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

SIMMONS: Same old statehood snake oil won’t sell

By Deborah Simmons - The Washington Times

Washington Mayor Vincent C. Gray (left) advocates for D.C. statehood in front of the New Hampshire House of Representatives Committee on State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs at the New Hampshire Statehouse in Concord, N.H., on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Gray takes D.C. rights lobbying to convention

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Illustration Obama Money by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Obama’s guilty silence

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times