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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, in this Tuesday, April 1, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Ron Johnson offers latest GOP plan to deal with Obamacare subsidies ruling

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), left, the senator who former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yelled at during a senate hearing on the attacks in Benghazi, speaks with Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), right, before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the September 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, May 8, 2013. (Andrew Geraci/The Washington Times)

Ron Johnson hopes for a better outcome in round two of Obamacare lawsuit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican and an outspoken critic of Mr. Obama's foreign policy, said additional sanctions would reinforce rather than undermine the U.S. bargaining position with Iran. (Associated Press)

Republican senators vow more Iran sanctions despite Obama warnings

By S.A. Miller and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., center, smiles as he welcomes some of the new GOP senators-elect in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. From left are, Sen.-elect Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Sen.-elect Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Mitch McConnell, Sen.-elect Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sen.-elect James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen.-elect Tom Cotton, R-Ark. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Club for Growth endorses six GOP senators for re-election in 2016

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

A law enforcement officer on a tactical vehicle watches after a device was fired to disperse a crowd Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. As night fell Sunday in Ferguson, another peaceful protest quickly deteriorated after marchers pushed toward one end of a street. Police attempted to push them back by firing tear gas and shouting over a bullhorn that the protest was no longer peaceful. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Ferguson pledges outreach efforts after shooting

By NIGEL DUARA - Associated Press

Police advance to clear people Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, during a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting has sparked more than a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Ferguson dawns with 2 shot, 31 arrested

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A law enforcement officer watches Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, as tear gas is fired to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting of teenager Michael Brown last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting in the middle of a street following a suspected robbery of a box of cigars from a nearby market has sparked a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon orders National Guard to Ferguson

By Nigel Duara and Jim Suhr - Associated Press

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, right, assigned Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, left, to defuse violent protests sparked by the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a police officer. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri Gov. Nixon declares state of emergency, curfew in St. Louis suburb where teen killed

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Smoke from a tire burnout rises over protestors on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)

Ferguson store looted early Saturday; Brown was accused of robbing same location

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during a meeting with Mikhail Fedotov, head of presidential human rights council, in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Putin asked Fedotov to help coordinate assistance for refugees from Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin a ‘megalomaniac’ who must be challenged with force: Sen. Johnson

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson holds a news conference on the steps of Wisconsin Eastern District Federal Courthouse Monday, July 7, 2014 in Green Bay, Wis. A government attorney is trying to persuade a federal judge in Green Bay to toss out Johnson's lawsuit challenging rules forcing congressional members and their employees to seek government-subsidized health insurance through small business exchanges. U.S. Justice Department attorney James Luh told U.S. District Judge William Griesbach on Monday that Johnson can't sue because he hasn't shown how the rules have caused him any injury. (AP Photo/The Green Bay Press-Gazette, Jim Matthews) NO SALES

Judge throws out Sen. Ron Johnson’s lawsuit over Obamacare exchanges

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Jan. 6, 2014, file photo, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined by attorneys Paul D. Clement, far left, and Rick Esenberg, second from left, announces that he has filed a lawsuit to block the federal government from helping to pay for health care coverage for members of Congress and their staffs during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. A federal judge will hear arguments this week on whether to toss a U.S. senator's lawsuit challenging rules that force congressional members and their staffs to obtain government-subsidized health insurance through small business exchanges. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Judge hears arguments in Sen. Ron Johnson’s Obamacare lawsuit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Senate Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont independent, says he's hopeful the veterans health care bill the Senate passed Wednesday will be reconciled quickly with a similar measure passed unanimously by the House. (Associated press photographs)

EDITORIAL: The VA spending ‘cure’

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - This April 13, 2011 file photo shows Rodney Berget, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2011 for the killing a Sioux Falls prison guard, in Sioux Falls, S.D. The South Dakota Supreme Court justices are scheduled to hear arguments again Tuesday, May 27, 2014 on a second appeal in Berget's case. Berget was serving two life sentences for attempted murder and rape. (AP Photo/The Argus Leader, Elisha Page, File) NO SALES

SD Supreme Court rehears death sentence appeal

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SD Supreme Court to rehear death sentence appeal

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"We can get this done," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat, said Monday of efforts to resolve the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. But Republicans later blocked a bipartisan plan to settle the funding issue, making a standoff a possibility until September. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Return of Democratic race-baiting

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Sen. Rockefeller: Sen. Johnson hates Obamacare because Obama is ‘wrong color’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Johnson to use campaign funds for legal bills

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Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., speaks at the Republican party of Wisconsin State Convention Saturday, May 3, 2014, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

Sen. Ron Johnson: “Sad fact is that sanctions haven’t worked”

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

Sen. Ron Johnson: Majority Leader Harry Reid using Senate as a ‘political weapon’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times