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** FILE ** Sen. Christopher Bond, D-Mo., left, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., walk near the floor of the Senate during an unusual Saturday session on Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate women hail Capitol Hill win — a bigger bathroom

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: New Jersey senator is anti-guns

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Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican (Associated Press)

Conservative senators shine at Road to Majority Conference

By Ralph Z. Hallow - The Washington Times

Vice President Joseph R. Biden pats President Obama on the chest Thursday while he speaks at a reception in the East Room of the White House to celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. (Associated Press)

Obama gets caught between advocates of gay rights, immigration reform

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, accompanied by families and friends of the Newtown, Conn., shooting victims, including (from left) Jillian, Carlee and Carlos Soto, siblings of Victoria Soto, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on June 13, 2013, the six-month anniversary of the Newtown shooting. (Associated Press)

Harry Reid: Background checks will pass — only question is when

By Ben Wolfgang and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

"There are still restrictions, but there is greater flexibility" on the issue of transferring detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, said Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl Levin. (Associated Press)

Senate panel gives Obama flexibility on transferring detainees

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

"I'm sick and tired of waiting until the deadline. We're going to wait until the last day and dare each other not to do it," said Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, on Thursday regarding student loan interest rates.

GOP tests Democrats on college loan issue

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Sensational season for scandal

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum - The Washington Times

Illegal immigrants easily step over a fallen barbed-wire fence between Mexico and the United States near the town of Sasabe, Mexico, in 2004. The number of apprehensions of illegal border-crossers is down while the number of deaths in the desert is high. (Associated Press)

Border War: Security at the center of Senate immigration fight

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

BIRNBAUM: Sensational season for scandal

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein and husband Richard Blum (Katie Falkenberg/The Washington Times)

Firm chaired by Sen. Feinstein’s husband cashes in on another financial crisis

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

Sean and Natalie Guthrie, of Boston, right, take photos of their 11-year-old daughter Leilani Guthrie posing with President Barack Obama, as he and Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate, Rep. Ed Markey watch at center during a campaign stop at Charlie's Sandwich Shoppe in Boston, Wednesday, June 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama campaigns in Boston for Senate candidate Ed Markey

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The Senate's bipartisan "Gang of Eight" holds a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, April 18, 2013. In front from left to right are Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican; Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat; Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican; and Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican. The legislation would dramatically remake the U.S. immigration system by ushering in new visa programs for low- and high-skilled workers, requiring a tough new focus on border security, instituting a new requirement for all employers to check the legal status of their workers, and installing a path to citizenship for 11 million immigrants in the country illegally. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Poison pills enter bruising Senate battle over immigration reform

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

B. Todd Jones, President Obama's nominee for director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was conducting his nomination hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Justice Department rarely prosecutes ‘straw buyers,’ ATF nominee Todd Jones says

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Associated Press)

Gay-rights amendment could complicate immigration debate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: What’s the rush?

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama hugs Tolu Olubunmi, an immigration activist, before speaking about immigration reform on June 11, 2013, in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

Obama throws weight behind immigration overhaul bill

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, following a Republican policy luncheon. (Associated Press)

McConnell: Immigration bill has ‘serious flaws’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said Monday he will bring his chamber's latest version of the farm bill to the floor this month. He declined to do so last year to avoid intraparty fighting during an election year. (Associated Press)

John Boehner: Time is right to bring latest farm bill to House floor

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigrant women and immigration reform on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

Lessons of 1986 amnesty loom in immigration debate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times