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** FILE ** President Barack Obama pauses during a news conference, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in the White House briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

MILLER: Firing back at gun control

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

Job-seekers wait to talk with potential employers at a job fair sponsored by National Career Fairs in New York on Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Unemployment applications lowest since April 2008

By Daniel Wagner - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Payroll-tax cut indecision will cost time, money

The Washington Times

Payroll tax deal extends ‘Doc Fix’

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

GROSSMAN: That silly little centimeter makes it a crime

By Andrew M. Grossman

EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson said the agency's new rule that will limit toxic pollutants released by coal- and oil-fired power plants is the Obama administration's "biggest clean-air action yet." (Associated Press)

EPA releases rule citing oil and coal power plants

By Dina Cappiello - Associated Press

TRANSFORMATIVE: Management guru W. Edwards Deming, seen here in February 1987, found an eager student during the last years of his life in the 1990s in Newt Gingrich. (Associated Press)

Gingrich drew inspiration from management theorist

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, walks Dec. 20, 2011, to the House floor in the Capitol in Washington. (Associated Press)

House vote puts tax cut in limbo

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Democratic senators came in for criticism from House Speaker John A. Boehner, who said, "The Democrats who run Washington have a responsibility to act." (Associated Press)

LAMBRO: Reid’s legislative trap

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

Inside Politics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

HURT: Deflecting blame for tax-cut logjam

By Charles Hurt

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

GROTH: Congress plays charades with insider trading

By James Groth - The Washington Times

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Lawmakers acceded to the president's request that funding for the Air Force's F-22 Raptor plane be ended in the defense appropriations legislation that he privately signed into law on Monday.

EDITORIAL: Navy blue goes green

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

MURRAY AND BIER: Create wealth, not jobs

By Iain Murray and David Bier - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Then-Sen. Barack Obama campaigns for the presidency in 2008. (Associated Press)

Dems outpace GOP in lobbyist cash race

By Luke Rosiak - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011, photo provided by NBC News, Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, appears on NBC's "Meet the Press" in Washington. House Republicans said Sunday they oppose a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill that extends a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months and said congressional bargainers need to write a new version lasting a longer time. "It's pretty clear I and our members oppose the Senate bill," Boehner said, adding, "I believe two months is just kicking the can down the road." (AP Photo, NBC News, William B. Plowman)

Boehner rejects deal on payroll tax

By David Eldridge and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich speaks Dec. 10, 2011, during a GOP presidential debate in Des Moines, Iowa. (Associated Press)

Campaign 2012: Gingrich expands call to reel in federal courts

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin III (left), West Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Mark Kirk, Illinois Republican, comment as the Senate approves legislation that extends Social Security payroll tax cuts for two months, at the Capitol in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate approves $1 trillion budget bill, payroll tax cut

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

ELLIG: Washington budget deals: Kitten or cobra?

By Jerry Ellig - The Washington Times