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Business group states case against health care mandate

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican (right), promises to take swift action on the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act. He prefers the Senate bill over a narrower House version. Both bills explicitly ban insider trading. At left is House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. (Associated Press)

Partisans quibble over right stocks bill

By Paige Winfield Cunningham THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama holds up a proposed mortgage application form as he speaks at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama urges Congress to fix housing problem, tax banks

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: With many claiming his mantle, it’s important to get Reagan right

By Robert Knight

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

House ready to consider insider trading ban

By Larry Margasak - Associated Press

President Obama talks Feb. 3, 2012, about the economy during an event at Fire Station #5 in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)

Obama presses Congress not to ‘muck up’ growing economy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Komen drops plans to cut Planned Parenthood grants

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

The Susan Komen For The Cure international headquarters in Addison, Texas, are shown Feb. 3, 2012. After three days of controversy, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity says it is reversing its decision to cut breast-screening grants to Planned Parenthood. (Associated Press)

Komen drops plan to cut Planned Parenthood grants

By David Crary - Associated Press

Holder

Holder faces wrath in Hill hearing on ‘Fast and Furious’

By Chuck Neubauer - The Washington Times

Inside Politics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Imam Malik Sakhawat Hussain puts on formal garb for an interview at the Al-Mahdi Foundation in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NYPD document: Collect intelligence at mosques

By Adam Goldman, Chris Hawley and Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. John McCain (Associated Press)

Senate passes insider trading ban for its members

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Obama’s recipe for poverty

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing titled "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Issa pushes Holder to produce documents or face contempt

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

BEACH: The case of the missing job generator

By William W. Beach

Illustration by Kevin Kreneck

HANSON: The un-Obama

By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times

Reactions heated on Planned Parenthood-Komen rift

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Illustration: Polarized capitol by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Obama’s divided America

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

House votes to freeze federal workers’ pay

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

**FILE** Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf (Associated Press)

Budget chief: Big challenges, ‘worrisome trends’ for U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times