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**FILE** President Obama speaks May 8, 2012, in Washington. (Associated Press)

Threats, deals got drug companies on board with Obama

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

**FILE** Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter (Associated Press)

Defense official: Sequester would create ‘adsurdities’

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Rep. David Rivera, Florida Republican, has introduced a bill to help good students who were brought to the U.S. as children by illegal immigrants and, through no fault of their own, could be deported. (Associated Press)

Republican offers Dream option for illegals

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Undocumented college student Jorge Herrera, 18, (center) of Carson, Calif., rallies with students and Dream Act supporters in Los Angeles on Dec. 25, 2010. The Dream Act would have given provisional legal status to illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. (Associated Press)

Republicans introduce their own version of Dream Act

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

"We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results," said Rep. Candice S. Miller, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)

House orders solid base line on border

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama signs the health care bill at the White House in Washington on March 23, 2010. (Associated Press)

Obama’s health care aid to small firms disappoints

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Associated Press

Seen here is one of the hundreds of snapshots posted on an internal General Services Administration website of the four-day, $823,000 affair in Las Vegas in 2010.

Top GSA official returns to work after opulent Vegas conference

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

David Foley

Suspended GSA executive back on the job

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

A snapshot posted on an internal GSA website shows attendees at the four-day, $823,000 2010 Western Regions conference in Las Vegas participating in a poolside activity.

Foley returns to work after joking about lavish GSA conference

The Washington Times

From left, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro and Education Secretary Arne Duncan participate in a roundtable discussion on education reform at Jepson School in New Haven, Conn., on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Eight more states receive No Child waiver

By Dorie Turner - Associated Press

Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican, has won 13 elections easily, but he faces a tough primary rematch against his 2010 challenger. (Associated Press)

Tea partyers down on Upton in Michigan primary

By Andrea Billups - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

SCANLON: Picking seniors’ pockets

By Terrence Scanlon

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

RAHN: Spending lies run into facts

By Richard W. Rahn - The Washington Times

Mayor Vincent C. Gray and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to outline a network of 100 organizations pledged to protect the District's home rule during federal budget talks. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Gray-Norton coalition fights federal meddling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

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TURNER: ‘Welcome home’ Vietnam veterans

By Robert F. Turner

Lieutenant Augustine Kim

MILLER: Drive across America, armed

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

**FILE** Lifeguard Breanna Adams watches as children jump from the diving board at the Anacostia Pool and Recreation Center in Washington, D.C., on July 21, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Feds promise swimming pool rules are ‘flexible’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: What if we have only memories of freedom?

By Andrew P. Napolitano

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press)

Senate defeats bills to reduce student loan rates

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former U.S. Rep William Wampler Sr. dies

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