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Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, speaks with reporters as he leaves a news conference with House Republicans at the Capitol on Thursday. The government shutdown has moved things back into the wheelhouse of Mr. Ryan. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Paul Ryan returns to GOP fore as he offers solutions, reaches out to religious right

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid stood his ground against Republicans during a budget battle in October 2013. (Associated Press/File)

Democrats say they will consider GOP’s six-week debt ceiling offer

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

House Speaker John Boehner, (R-Ohio) speaks at a press conference with Republicans at the U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C., Thursday, October 10, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Obama will consider signing GOP’s 6-week extension on debt ceiling

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Ronald Reagan (seated) and Chief of Staff James A. Baker III are pictured in the Oval Office of the White House. (University of Texas)

BAKER: Ending the shutdown and addressing the debt limit

By James A. Baker III

D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray listens to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, as Senate Democrats gather outside the Capitol to urge Speaker John A. Boehner and other House Republicans to break the impasse on a funding bill and stop the government shutdown. (Associated Press)

D.C. officials say shutdown threatens students at charter schools

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Janet Yellen, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, smiles as President Barack Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, where the president announced he is nominating Yellen to be chair of the Federal Reserve, succeeding Ben Bernanke. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama makes it official: Yellen to head Fed

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

UHLER AND FERRARA: The shutdown as an opportunity

By Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara

Colorado state Sen. Evie Hudak faces a recall effort by gun rights advocates in Colorado angered by her support for gun control bills that passed the legislature. (Associated Press)

Colorado voters go after third pro-gun-control Democrat via recall

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks about the the budget and the partial government shutdown, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, in the Brady Press Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Debt-limit holiday, supercommittee proposed to end shutdown impasse

By Seth McLaughlin and Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Obama nominated Janet Yellen, a loyal lieutenant of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, to become the first woman to head the century-old central bank on Wednesday.

Fed future: Janet Yellen to be nominated as Ben Bernanke’s replacement

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Under Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Miguel Serpa Soares after signing the Arms Trade Treaty during the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

FEULNER: Letting the U.N. target our guns

By Ed Feulner

** FILE ** House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, right, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Va., participate in a news conference after a House Republican conference meeting, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Obama stiff-arms GOP over shutdown, default talks

By Seth McLaughlin and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas epitomizes a new generation of headstrong conservatives. He has become a hot commodity since his all-night filibuster on the Senate floor in an effort to stop President Obama's Affordable Care Act from taking effect, but has upset the GOP establishment. (Associated Press)

Cruz control: Inside GOP’s great divide on Obamacare

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

The Rev. Barry C. Black, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, poses for a portrait in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington on Friday, July 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Drew Angerer)

Senate chaplain’s scathing prayers: ‘Deliver us from the hypocrisy’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Eleanor Holmes Norton (right), a non-voting delegate for the District of Columbia in the House of Representatives, and D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, take part in a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

Block on city funding turns D.C. against Democrats in Congress

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

llegal immigrant advocates interrupted Sen. Ted Cruz’s speech to the Values Voters Summit on Friday more than a dozen times on, calling on the Texas Republican and potential presidential candidate to support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. “How scared is the president?” Mr. Cruz said. “Oh, they don’t want the truth to be heard. They definitely don’t want the truth to be heard.” (Associated Press)

Love him or hate him, Sen. Ted Cruz stirs up political passion

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaking ABC's "This Week" on Sunday said that he will not allow a debt increase without winning some concessions on lowering spending. "We are not going down that path. It is time to deal with America's problems. How can you raise the debt limit and do nothing about the underlying problem?" (Associated Press)

Debt fight to escalate shutdown showdown; Boehner attaches Obamacare strings

By Stephen Dinan and Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court are (clockwise from upper left) Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony M. Kennedy; Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.; and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Supreme Court term begins with contentious topics

By Mark Sherman - Associated Press

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to a Republican strategy session on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. Boehner is struggling between Democrats that control the Senate and GOP conservatives in his caucus who insist any funding legislation must also kill or delay the nation's new health care law. Added pressure came from President Barack Obama who pointedly blamed Boehner on Thursday for keeping federal agencies closed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House approves retroactive pay for furloughed government workers

By Seth McLaughlin and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times