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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, has opposed using the Yucca Mountains in his home state for the storage of nuclear waste. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Nuclear waste site evaluations to restart over Reid’s objections

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Illustration: Tax day suckers by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times.

EDITORIAL: Cheap at the price

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. Harry Reid says he doesn’t have the votes to bring up gun control

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, New York Democrat (Associated Press) ** FILE **

EDITORIAL: A stand on principle

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate prepared to push major gay rights legislation past a first, big hurdle Monday as Democrats and a handful of Republicans united behind a bill to prohibit workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File )

Reid ‘disappointed’ after Boehner nixes gay discrimination vote

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

TURNER: The Senate’s unconstitutional holds on nominations

By Robert F. Turner

PAUL: Ending secrecy at the Federal Reserve

By Sen. Rand Paul

**FILE** Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican (Associated Press)

Senate GOP blocks key Obama judge, signals renewed fight over court nominees

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration: National Labor Relations Board

EDITORIAL: A fox for the henhouse

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Letting no crisis go to waste

By Robert Knight

Illustration by Kevin Kreneck

DEAN: Playing around with debt

By Warren L. Dean Jr.

President Barack Obama walks out to make a statement to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The Senate voted to avoid a financial default and reopen the government after a 16-day partial shutdown and the measure now heads to the House, which is expected to back the bill before day's end. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Back in business: Obamacare undented as shutdown ends, debt default avoided

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is followed by reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013, in Washington. Sen. McConnell and his Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., are optimistic about forging an eleventh-hour bipartisan deal preventing a possible federal default and ending the partial government shutdown after Republican divisions forced GOP leaders to drop efforts to ram their own version through the House.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Senate passes budget deal; bill heads to House

By Seth McLaughlin and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, walks to the floor from a closed-door meeting with Republican senators at the Capitol on Wednesday. Mr. McConnell and his Democratic counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, reached last-minute agreement to avert a possible default on government debt. (Associated press photographs)

Congress agrees to end shutdown

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 14, 2013, photo, the U.S. Capitol is seen as a partial government shutdown enters its third week, in Washington. As talks between Republican and Democratic leaders lumber on in Washington, the American public sees an economic crisis looming if Congress is unable to raise the country&#8217;s debt ceiling. But the people seem just as conflicted on the issue as their elected representatives. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House postpones vote on bill to reopen govt. and avoid default

Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama repeatedly unwilling to compromise

Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks during a news conference on the ongoing budget battle outside his office on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

House conservatives sabotage Boehner plan to end shutdown

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, walks away from the microphone during a news conference after a House GOP meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013, in Washington. House GOP leaders Tuesday floated a plan to fellow Republicans to counter an emerging Senate deal to reopen the government and forestall an economy-rattling default on U.S. obligations. But the plan got mixed reviews from the rank and file, and it was not clear whether it could pass the chamber. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

House GOP unity breaks down over latest shutdown offer

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, reported some progress Monday toward a deal to avoid a threatened default and end a two-week partial government shutdown. "Everyone just needs to be patient. Perhaps tomorrow will be a bright day. We're not there yet," he said. (Associated Press photographs)

Senate works to end shutdown, raise debt limit

By Seth McLaughlin and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

WILLIAMS: We, the people, are trapped on a ship of fools

By Armstrong Williams