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President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Biden’s unspectacular State of the Union address

By Cal Thomas

President Joe Biden delivers his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, as Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., watch, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

The State of Confusion address

By Tim Constantine

President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington, as Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi look on. (Saul Loeb, Pool via AP)

Biden seeks to reassure anxious nation in first State of the Union speech

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., speaks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting, on Dec. 13, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Deutch says he will not seek reelection in the fall. He is the 31st House Democrat to announce plans to leave the chamber as this year's midterm elections draw closer. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

Ted Deutch joins stampede of retiring House Democrats

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks about Russia's invasion of Ukraine on a television at Shaws Tavern in Washington, Feb. 24, 2022. Biden will deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, March 1. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

On cusp of Biden speech, a state of disunity, funk and peril

By Calvin Woodward and Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Thursday, June 17, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Sen. Lindsey Graham urges Biden to work with Congress on bipartisan aid for Ukraine

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wa., together with Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, Rep. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., right, Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., second from right, and other Republican members of Congress speaks to reporters outside the West Wing of the White House following a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden’s new COVID-19 aid request raises spending questions among GOP lawmakers

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Alexander Hamilton

How to reduce and eliminate America’s public debt

By Barry W. Poulson

In this Oct. 17, 2019, file photo, then-acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney speaks in the White House briefing room in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Mick Mulvaney breaks with Trump to back Rep. Nancy Mace for reelection

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden is flanked by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., left, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., right, after arriving on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 6, 2022. Biden will give his State of the Union address to Congress on March 1. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

All members of Congress will be invited to Biden’s State of the Union speech

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this July 24, 2019 photo, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., asks questions to former special counsel Robert Mueller, as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference, on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Privacy legislation stalled in Congress, lawmakers turn attention to midterm elections

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Illustration on CIA domestic spying by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CIA spying on Americans and their collaborators

By Andrew P. Napolitano

A large group of police arrives at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2022, in Washington. U.S. Capitol Police officers are facing increasingly heated rhetoric from House Republicans as it tries to win back public confidence, including baseless allegations that the department's officers are operating as politically driven spies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Republicans press inspector general to expand probe of Capitol Police

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about Ukraine in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden urges county leaders to support his bigger spending plans amid record inflation

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., walks on Capitol Hill, on Oct. 7, 2021, in Washington. Pressure is building for Congress to pass legislation that would curtail lawmakers' ability to speculate on the stock market. Public anger over congressional stock trading has mounted since the first tremors of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Pressure mounts on Congress to curb lawmaker stock trading

By Brian Slodysko - Associated Press

This April 13, 2016, file photo shows the seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. The CIA says it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing's influence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

CIA has secret program that collects Americans’ data, senators say

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

In this file photo, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of Calif., pauses as she speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Virginia Democrat calls ‘bull——’ on proposed rule banning stock trades for members of Congress

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Georgia Republican, listens during a news conference about the treatment of people being held in the District of Columbia jail who are charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Ms. Greene has criticized Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, for describing the Jan. 6 incident as "terrorism." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for confusing ‘gazpacho’ with ‘Gestapo’

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this March 10, 2021, file photo, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., celebrate after signing the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, during an enrollment ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

In costliest U.S. fight, little cash goes to actually fight COVID-19

By Joseph Clark and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off Marine One, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, in Washington. Biden returned to Washington after spending the weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

White House taps federal workforce to serve as ‘model-actor’ for pro-union behavior

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times