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** FILE ** This Jan. 23, 2014, file photo shows House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis. in San Antonio. Ryan won't say if he'll run for president in 2016 but there's one job he's sure he doesn't want: Speaker of the House of Representatives. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Ryan: No hopes to be House Speaker

By PAUL WEBER - Associated Press

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan takes part in a San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in San Antonio. Ryan said House Republicans will tackle immigration reform in pieces rather than the Senate's comprehensive approach. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Paul Ryan: I don’t want to be House speaker

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan takes part in a San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce event, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014, in San Antonio. Ryan said House Republicans will tackle immigration reform in pieces rather than the Senate's comprehensive approach. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Ryan: House will take up immigration in pieces

By PAUL J. WEBER - Associated Press

FILE - This Oct. 18, 2013 file photo shows the White House in Washington. This is a year of auditioning, positioning, networking and just plain hard work for people who are considering running for president in 2016. You could see them stirring in 2013 as they plugged holes in resumes, took preliminary steps to build potential campaign organizations and made carefully calibrated moves to get better known by Americans generally and key constituencies in particular. Most _ but not all _ are ticking off items on what could be called the presidential prep checklist. And they’ve got baggage to deal with. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

A fast 2014 start on presidential prep

By CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press

** FILE ** House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., answers questions as he and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., (not shown) announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Finding money to reverse military pension cuts is latest budget battle

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

SPERO: A papal view of capitalism

By Aryeh Spero

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moodys Analytics, is optimistic that Congress will break partisan gridlock next year, starting with the debate over the debt ceiling. (Associated Press)

Analysts say gridlock in Congress can’t get any worse in 2014

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., answers questions as he and Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., (not shown) announce a tentative agreement between Republican and Democratic negotiators on a government spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

Rep. Paul Ryan defends cuts to military retirement in budget bill

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks to the media as he and first lady Michelle Obama meet with a group of mothers in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, to discuss how health care reform could benefit their families. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

President gets budget win — but only by staying out of negotiations

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash., the architect of a bipartisan budget deal negotiated with Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the House Budget Committee chairman, discusses the compromise spending plan during a television news interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Budget deal author Sen. Patty Murray vows to fix a ‘technical error’ in the bill

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This photo taken Dec. 11, 2013, shows House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., right, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaking during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

White House: Once again, no negotiations on debt ceiling

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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

EDITORIAL: Mending a bad bargain

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

KEENE: Filling out the budget agreement scorecard

By David Keene

The budget deal includes a provision making tax increases easier

The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama pauses as he speaks about the new health care law during a White House Youth Summit on Dec. 4, 2013, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Americans who already have health insurance are blaming President Barack Obama's health care overhaul for their rising premiums and deductibles, and overall 3 in 4 say the rollout of coverage for the uninsured has gone poorly. (Associated Press)

Obama administration refuses to negotiate on debt ceiling increase

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Ryan-Murray only kicks can down road

By our readers

Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, who is House Budget Committee chairman, arrives for a congressional budget conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Ryan pleads with conservatives as budget deal heads to Senate

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio leaves a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, where he vehemently rebuked conservative groups who oppose the pending bipartisan budget compromise struck by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Boehner said the GOP leadership has had enough tea party-driven intransigence in Congress and he doesn&#8217;t care what they think. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House budget bargain faces Senate filibuster; Republicans line up to oppose

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, joined by House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., takes reporters' questions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, as House Republicans signaled support for a budget deal worked out yesterday between Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chair Rep. Patty Murray, D-Wash. The budget deal was one of a few major 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)

All-out war breaks out in GOP over budget pact

By Jacqueline Klimas and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times