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

Unemployment insurance extension passes Senate

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. The Senate is nearing a potential showdown on curbing the power that the Republican minority has to block President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominations, as Democrats edge toward muscling a rewrite of filibuster rules through the chamber. Reid was expected to force a vote as soon as Thursday on requiring only 51 votes to end filibusters, or delaying tactics, against nominees for high-level judgeships and agency officials. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

EDITORIAL: Doing nothing constructively

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

NY Times’ whitewash of Benghazi attack aids Hillary Clinton in 2016

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, and other Republicans walk to a closed-door GOP meeting before the Senate moves to pass a modest, bipartisan budget bill, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. The bill is designed to keep Congress from lurching from fiscal crisis to fiscal crisis and ease the harshest effects of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House, Senate GOP differ in approach to support of budget deal

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Associated Press)

Military benefits glitch clouds Senate passage of budget deal

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KNIGHT: Capital dysfunction

By Robert Knight

Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Bill eases Guantanamo transfers

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Walking through a basement corridor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is pursued by reporters on the morning after a budget deal was worked out between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. After Ryan presented his plan to the House Republican Conference this morning, Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, and GOP leaders signaled support for the deal, which was one of a few key measures left on Congress' to-do list near the end of a bruising year that has produced a partial government shutdown, a flirtation with a first-ever federal default and gridlock on President Obama's agenda. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

GOP hopes taking shutdown off the table with budget deal will pay dividends

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The U.S. Capitol Christmas tree is lit against the early morning sky Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Washington. The tree was officially lit Tuesday night to kick off the holiday season in the nation's capital. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

MILLER: Obamacare enrollees include 101 members of the House of Representatives

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

John Boehner faces bipartisan pressure to allow gay-rights vote

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat (Associated Press) ** FILE **

First deadline missed in bipartisan negotiations to avoid shutdown in January

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana Democrat, could be the swing vote in committee that decides the fate of Ron Binz, the president's nominee to be chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Associated Press)

Broken promise of Obamacare to haunt Democrats’ congressional campaigns

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (center), Virginia Republican, leaves the office of House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Nov. 15, 2013, before a vote on a measure to let insurers keep offering health coverage that falls short of the law's standards. (Associated Press)

Republicans say new report points to Obamacare security problems

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Rep. Trent Franks, Arizona Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Forty House Republicans side with Obamacare Origination Clause suit

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Aug. 26, 2011, photo, a sign notifies customers that EBT (or Electronic Benefit Transfer) cards can be used at a store in Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Jay Pickthorn)

FEULNER: A farm bill in name only

By Ed Feulner

President Obama gives a thumbs up to a supporter at a campaign rally at the Community College of Aurora in Aurora, Colo. on Nov. 4, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama aims to make it ‘easy’ for GOP to back immigration reform

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens at right as National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, before the House Intelligence Committee hearing on potential changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Faced with anger over revelations about U.S. spying at home and abroad, members of Congress suggested Tuesday that programs the Obama administration says are needed to combat terrorism may have gone too far. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Clapper: Foreign agents spy on U.S. leaders, too

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This undated screenshot provided by the Milk Processor Education Program, known as MilkPep shows the company's Super Bowl advertisement. The Milk Processor Education Program, known as MilkPep and popular for its "Got Milk?" print ads, is featuring actor and professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in a 30-second ad in the second quarter that is directed by Peter Berg. (AP Photo/Milk Processor Education Program)

Milk prices poised to soar as Congress bickers on farm bill

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks about the importance of education in providing skills for American workers in a global economy, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, during a visit at Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

After hiatus, Obama returns to campaign mode in N.Y.

By Josh Lederman - Associated Press