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**FILE** Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama acknowledges the audience before speaking at an event entitled: &quot;Happiness, Free Enterprise, and Human Flourishing&quot; Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. (Associated Press)

Dalai Lama’s ‘favorite’ prayer reaches few in U.S. Senate

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

CPAC 2014: McConnell promises ‘I won’t let you down’ if Senate flips Republican

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Debo Adegbile, special counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, speaks with reporters outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Feb. 27, 2013, after arguments in the Shelby County, Ala., v. Holder voting rights case. The justices are hearing arguments in a challenge to the part of the Voting Rights Act that forces places with a history of discrimination, mainly in the Deep South, to get approval before they make any change in the way elections are held. (Associated Press)

Senate blocks Obama’s civil rights nominee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Debo Adegbile, then an attorney with the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People speaks outside the Supreme Court in Washington on April 29, 2009. Adegbile, President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division has failed a Senate test vote and his confirmation is in jeopardy. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Senate blocks Obama’s pick for civil rights post

By DAVID ESPO - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., leaves the Senate floor on Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, after President Barack Obama's choice to head the Justice Department's civil rights division failed a Senate test vote and put the confirmation of Debo Adegbile in jeopardy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Unemployment insurance vote could happen next week

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Reid hits Koch Brothers for putting money in politics with incendiary speech

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Flores enters race for NV lieutenant governor

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Who are you calling un-American?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The whopper industry (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)

KNIGHT: The lies behind Obamacare

By Robert Knight

** FILE ** Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama's surgeon general nominee. (AP Photo/courtesy of Brigham and Women's Hospital)

MILLER: NRA to score Senate vote on Obama’s nominee for surgeon general, Vivec Murthy

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he wants to give President Obama a free hand to conduct diplomacy with Iran and doesn't want to see Congress vote on the issue. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid hammered for labeling Obamacare horror tales as untrue

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Reid backs off on Obamacare horror stories claim

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Iran sanctions dispute hurts vets bill prospects

By ALAN FRAM - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, said he wants to give President Obama a free hand to conduct diplomacy with Iran and doesn't want to see Congress vote on the issue. (Associated Press)

Democrats seek to avoid Iran sanctions vote embarrassment

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

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House Democrats push minimum wage vote

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell fired a major shot Thursday, taking to the chamber floor to say the rules amount to a declaration of war on free speech and vowing the GOP will try to block them.
"Every American needs to know about this abuse of power," said Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican. "Let me be clear: What the administration is proposing poses a grave threat to the ability of ordinary Americans to freely participate in the Democratic process."

McConnell: ‘No hope’ for tax reform this year

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. faces reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014, following a closed-door Democratic policy meeting. The Senate seemed ready Tuesday to vote preliminary approval of a sprawling Democratic bill expanding health, education and other benefits for veterans, but the election-year measure faced conservative opposition and an uncertain fate as Republicans try to make it smaller and find ways to pay for it. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Dems to push ahead on minimum wage as Reid delays Senate vote

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The veterans bill vote could put Senate Republicans in the uncomfortable position of saying no to a politically powerful constituency during an election year. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the bill’s author and the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs, has gained the endorsement of myriad veterans groups to generate momentum for his bill, which the panel says would cost $21 billion over 10 years. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Dozens of veterans priorities rolled into 1 bill

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

"I know that despite our heavy political calendar this year, Europe is ready to make that commitment," European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht says about the proposed free trade treaty. "And I have every confidence that the U.S. will join us." (Associated Press)

EU optimistic for free trade deal

By Meghan Drake - The Washington Times

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, speaks at a news conference on enrollment in affordable health coverage in Cleveland Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Sebelius pointed to in-person assistance available in the Cleveland area to help people choose and enroll in affordable coverage options in the Health Insurance Marketplace. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

Insurers lobby goes to bat for Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times