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**FILE** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (left), Virginia Republican (Associated Press)

House Republicans will link health care funding to budget, raise risk of shutdown

By Tom Howell Jr. and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Oceane Scharre, 10, Mini-Miss France 2011, is pictured with Miss France 2011 Mathilde Florin. The French Senate voted on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013, to ban beauty pageants for children under 16 in an effort to protect children — especially girls — from being sexualized too early. Anyone who enters a child into such a contest would face up to two years in prison and 30,000 euros in fines, according to the measure. (AP Photo/Mini-Miss Committee)

French Senate votes to ban child beauty pageants

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

EDITORIAL: Thuggery in Northern Virginia

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. speaks July 26, 2012, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

Congress looks to relax mandatory prison terms

By Henry C. Jackson - Associated Press

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (Associated Press)

Sen. Harry Reid: Obstructionist Republicans need to ‘grow up’ on health law issue

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Capitol Police keep watch on the East Front of the Capitol after the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday. (Associated Press)

Senate closing after Navy Yard shooting revives openness debate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A S.W.A.T. team arrives outside of the Navy Yard as workers are evacuated from the area while police search for a gunman, in Washington, D.C., Monday, Sept. 16, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

Senate lockdown lifted

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Roberto Morales, 25, holds a sign representing a permanent resident card while attending the "Rally for Citizenship" on Capitol Hill on April 10, 2013, in support of immigration reform. (Associated Press)

Immigrant-rights groups call for October rally in D.C.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama speaks during a ceremony to award U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ty M. Carter the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry on Aug. 26, 2013, at the White House. (Associated Press)

Obama: Senate immigration bill would pass House if it got a vote

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Joseph R. Biden is likely to run for the White House in 2016 if Hillary Rodham Clinton decides against a bid, those close to him say. (Associated Press)

Biden roasts rising Republicans at Iowa steak fry

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Derailing Obamacare

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, July 9, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (Associated Press)

Sen. Harry Reid moans: The ‘anarchists’ have taken over Congress

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Donna Grethen for Tribune Content Agency

LAMBRO: A last stand against Obamacare?

By Donald Lambro

** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican (Associated Press)

House approves bill requiring new income-verification system for Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama pauses after speaking to members of the media during his meeting with Baltic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Greens, lobbyists and partisans helping Ron Binz, Obama’s FERC pick, move through Senate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Ron Binz (From Ron Binz' Public Policy Consulting website)

Energy nominee Ron Binz plots with lobbyists to win confirmation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, announces the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control on Feb. 10, 2012, at the White House. (Associated Press)

Republicans see security, readiness problems with health care data hub

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, accompanied by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (right), Texas Republican, and Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

McConnell to vote against Syria strikes

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his meeting with elected region leaders in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Sept. 10, 2013. (Associated Press/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin: Obama must back off for Syria plan to work

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate pressed on Obamacare

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times