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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2011, file photo, two pilots from Cathay Pacific walk in the Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong. The U.S. airline industry will need to hire 1,900 to 4,500 new pilots annually over the next 10 years due to an expected surge in retirements of pilots reaching age 65 and increased demand for air travel, the Government Accountability Office said in the report obtained late Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

GAO report: Too few pilots or too little pay?

By JOAN LOWY - Associated Press

First lady Michelle Obama talks at the Jessie Trice Community Health Care Center in Miami, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, to highlight the work that hospitals, doctors and clinics are doing to educate their patients about the Affordable Care Act and how patients can get insurance. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

1M kids stop school lunch due to Michelle Obama’s food standards

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

ROTC programs with fewer officers face cutbacks

Associated Press

This screen image shows the website for Maryland's online health care exchange. House Republicans intent on highlighting the woes of President Barack Obama’s health care law need to look no further than their own back yards, some of which are traditionally liberal strongholds. Maryland’s online health care exchange has been plagued by computer glitches since its rollout last year, reflected in abysmal enrollment numbers well below projections through January. The state’s lone Republican in Congress, Rep. Andy Harris, has asked the inspector general of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to investigate. (AP Photo/State of Maryland)

GOP seizes on state woes to highlight health care

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

A home is advertised for sale at a foreclosure auction in Pasadena, Calif., in 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

Treasury Department not evaluating how TARP mortgage providers treat minorities, watchdog says

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 2013, file photo, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

DHS ammo purchases down 36 percent since 2009: report

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Inspector general focuses on coal leasing problems

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

File-In this April 4, 2013, file photo, a truck carrying 250 tons of coal hauls the fuel to the surface of the Spring Creek mine near Decker, Mont. Congressional investigators have found problems with federal coal sales that a federal lawmaker says potentially cost taxpayers $200 million or more in lost revenue. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown,File)

Senator: US coal sales might have cost taxpayers

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

Derek Cross in Springfield, Colo., helps with the first known harvest of hemp in more than 60 years. The federal farm bill reverses decades of prohibition for hemp cultivation and restores a fee on home heating oil with a provision slipped into the legislation. (Associated Press)

Congress seeks to jack up fees on home heating oil in midst of frigid winter

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Conn. US senators blast student loan profits

Associated Press

GAO says D.C. budget autonomy referendum has ‘no legal effect’

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Congress: DC budget autonomy referendum invalid

Associated Press

The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse.

Golden Hammer: Federal flood program $24B in debt

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

The most egregious examples of government waste, fraud or abuse.

Golden Hammer: VA hit for waste, lack of oversight on medical implants

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

"It's a complete failure for me. It won't let you progress. It freezes up," Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, says of his attempts to sign up for Obamacare using the HealthCare.gov website. (associated press)

GAO watchgdog: CBP, ICE security database upgrade seen veering off course

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Dec. 1, 2013 file photo, emergency personnel respond to the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. Metro-North trains are equipped with an automatic breaking system that might have prevented the crash, but the system was in place to regulate the distance between trains, not to control speeds as trains approached curves, or passed over hills and bridges. Since the crash, the speed limit was lowered on the approach to the curve, plus an alarm will sound and an automatic braking system will engage is a train approaches the bend too fast. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Railroad safety agency stretched thin and getting thinner, watchdog warns

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

School voucher group under fire for ‘untimely information’

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

If the TSA's behavior-profiling program at airports is defunded, Administrator John S. Pistole said, "There would be fewer passengers going through expedited screening, there would be increased pat-downs, there would be longer lines and there would be more frustration by the traveling public." (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

TSA profiling at airports has yet to nab a terrorist

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Airline passenger Don Heim (right) of Alpharetta, Ga., is briefed by Transportation Security Administration trainer Byron Gibson before going through a new expedited security line on Oct. 4, 2011, at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. (Associated Press)

TSA wasting money by profiling passengers’ behavior: Report

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Associated Press

TSA spent almost $1B on program with no way of scientifically measuring success: GAO

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times