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Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf, right, talks with House Budget Committee member Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, prior to Elmendorf testifying before the committee's hearing on the CBO budget and economic outlook. New estimates that President Barack Obama’s health care law will encourage millions of Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who’ve claimed all along that the law will kill jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Obamacare’s ‘poverty trap’

By Donald Lambro

Retiring Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., a liberal force on health issues who helped write and enact the 2010 Affordable Care Act, defends President Barack Obama’s health care law during a TV news interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. New estimates that President Barack Obama’s health care law will encourage millions of Americans to leave the workforce or reduce their work hours have touched off an I-told-you-so chorus from Republicans, who’ve claimed all along that the law will kill jobs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

FACT CHECK: Anti-Obamacare chorus is off key

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, accompanied by House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., left, and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., speak to reporters about the Keystone XL Pipeline and other issues, following a Republican Conference meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Analysts say health care law means fewer on job

By ANDREW TAYLOR and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR - Associated Press

Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, left, campaigns for Michigan's new 14th district congressional seat at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Detroit. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Susan Tusa)

EDITORIAL: The Obamacare lie as an option

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama makes the thumbs up sign as he ends a speech about his ConnetED goal of connecting 99% of students to next generation broadband and wireless technology within five years, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, at Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obamacare will push 2 million workers out of labor market: CBO

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - This Dec. 4, 2013 file photo shows Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., left, and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Lucas, R-Okla. on Capitol Hill in Washington. Farm-state lawmakers are pushing for final passage of the massive, five-year farm bill as it heads to the House floor Wednesday — member by member, vote by vote. There are goodies scattered through the bill for members from all regions of the country: a boost in money for crop insurance popular in the Midwest; higher cotton and rice subsidies for Southern farmers; renewal of federal land payments for Western states. There are cuts to the food stamp program — $800 million a year, or around 1 percent — for Republicans who say the program is spending too much money, but they are low enough that some Democrats will support them. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Q&A: What’s in the trillion-dollar farm bill?

By MARY CLARE JALONICK - Associated Press

Trays of printed Social Security checks in Philadelphia wait to be mailed from the U.S. Treasury in 2005. (Associated Press) **FILE**

YOUNG: What if interest on the national debt skyrockets?

By J.T. Young

Congressional Budget Director Doug Elmendorf talks about the economic outlook while testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013, before the Congressional Budget Conference. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

CBO director: Short-term budget fix better than nothing

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

YOUNG: How extreme overspending became the new norm

By J.T. Young

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

Congress flies blind during shutdown with deficit of budget reports

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The Social Security retirement system was implemented in the 1930s. (Illustration by M. Ryder)

Social Security fix would require big tax increase

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Dollar bills are on display at the Diversified table during a job fair at the Radisson Martinique hotel, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010 in New York. The insurance company is giving away dollar bills to attract sales representatives. The Labor Department said Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010, that first-time claims for jobless aid fell by 17,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 421,000 in the week ending Dec. 4. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Government red ink jumps 25% in August

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama speaks at a disabled veterans event in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 10, 2013. (Associated Press)

GOP-backed delay to Obamacare would save $35 billion, report says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on April 17, 2013. (Associated Press)

Federal deficit hits lowest point of Obama administration

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rep. Pete Sessions, Texas Republican (Associated Press)

House drops food stamps, passes ag-only farm bill

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Children take an oath of citizenship during a ceremony at the old school house in Old Sacramento, Calif. on Wednesday. Today's children become tomorrow's workers and future retirees. Most Americans end up getting more back in benefits than they pay into the entitlement system, meaning the immigrants being added now could become liabilities later on.
(Associated Press)

Officials see immigration reform bolstering Social Security in the short term

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** U.S. Border Patrol agent Jerry Conlin looks out over Tijuana, Mexico, along the old border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border on June 13, 2013, where it ends at the base of a hill in San Diego. (Associated Press)

More agents, fencing may cut illegal immigration by half; Senate bill’s critics not satisfied

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Gay rights advocate Vin Testa waves a rainbow flag at dawn in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. In two separate and significant victories for gay rights, the high court struck down a provision of the Defense of Marriage Act denying federal benefits to married gay couples and cleared the way for the resumption of same-sex marriage in California. (Associated Press)

Feds move quickly on benefits after Supreme Court’s gay-marriage ruling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Jan. 21, 2009, file photo President Barack Obama speaks to his senior staff to assert his expectations on ethics and conduct on the White House campus in Washington. Promising to reinvigorate the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Obama, issued an executive order his first day in office, and told all federal agencies to adopt a "presumption in favor of disclosure." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama summons business leaders to White House ahead of key immigration vote

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times