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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (AP Photo)

GOP proposes one-year delay on new tax code

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Speaker John A. Boehner (left), Ohio Republican, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press)

MILLER: Taxmaggedon showdown

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (AP Photo)

McConnell hits Obama on student loan debate

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press)

Senate defeats bills to reduce student loan rates

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Inside Politics: Illinois GOP picks Davis for ballot to replace Rep. Johnson

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this May 10, 2012, file photo House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, takes questions during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Obama, Boehner agree on hoagies, not much else

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — accompanied by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, left, and student Kelsey Gorman — listens during a roundtable discussion at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, Friday, April 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

GOP follows Romney’s lead in parrying Democrats

By Andrew Taylor - Associated Press

**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat (Associated Press)

Obama backs GOP over Reid in bitter personnel fight

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Kristine Svinicki's term at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission expires in June.

McConnell, Reid spar on status of nuclear appointee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (Associated Press)

Obama’s recess actions spur Republicans to join lawsuit

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on March 29, 2012, to urge Congress to eliminate tax breaks for oil and gas companies. (Associated Press)

Senate rejects Obama demand for end to oil tax breaks

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

Senate ends standoff on judges, jobs bill

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**FILE** Demonstrators outside the White House march in November with a replica of a pipeline during a protest of the planned Keystone XL pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to Texas. (Associated Press)

Senate backs Obama in pipeline rejection

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

McConnell wants vote on birth-control mandate

By Anne Flaherty - Associated Press

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks Feb. 9, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in D.C. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Forum hears rallying cry against birth-control rule

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, is very skeptical the federal government can afford to provide $200 million over a decade in new funding the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City in tough budget times. (Associated Press)

Oklahoma’s Coburn questions more funding for 9/11 museum

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (The Washington Times)

McConnell won’t say no to tax increases

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

On the day of his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama walks from the Oval Office along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

State of the Union: Obama to say U.S. must reclaim fairness

By Ben Feller - Associated Press

Illustration: Czar appointments by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

PARISI: Non-response to non-recess appointments

By Peter Parisi - The Washington Times

Daniels to deliver GOP response to Obama

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press