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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican (AP Photo)

Former Miss America may take on Mitch McConnell for Senate

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accompanied by Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., chair of the tea party caucus, speaks during a news conference with tea party leaders about the IRS targeting tea party groups, Thursday, May 16, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Conservatives propose compromise of balanced budget, higher debt limit

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speaks May 21, 2013, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington following the Democratic policy luncheon. (Associated Press)

Reid: D.C. court needs Obama nominees for ideological balance

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, confers with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, left, the ranking member, as the Senate Judiciary Committee assembles to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., stands at center. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House Republicans find holes in immigration bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this March 1, 2013, file photo Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., participates in a news conference at an airport in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Senators call on Obama to arm Syrian opposition

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (left), Montana Democrat, accompanied by Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the committee's ranking Republican, questions ousted IRS Chief Steve Miller, former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, on Capitol Hill on May 21, 2013, during the committee's hearing on the IRS practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings. (Associated Press)

Parties divide over IRS scandal fallout

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Former IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman (right) denies responsibility for a list that told specialists to “be on the lookout” for tea party groups. (Associated Press)

Former IRS commissioner says scrutiny was not his job as a political appointee

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, responds to questions and offers remarks during an interview in Washington on Wednesday, July 6, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

Immigration reform bill clears committee hurdles, heads to full Senate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Gun control advocates have funded an ad campaign that criticizes Sen. Kelly Ayotte's vote on a gun control measure. She is facing re-election in 2016. (Associated Press)

Sen. Kelly Ayotte fights back over guns; target of out-of-state ad buy says critics wrong

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

**FILE** Illegal immigrants prepare to enter a bus after being processed at the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson Sector headquarters on Aug. 9, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (Associated Press)

Labor union chief calls immigration bill dangerous, sees agency as ‘approval machine’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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EDITORIAL: Repeal the Johnson Amendment

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STEIN: No need for speed on immigration bill

By Dan Stein

**FILE** Sens. Patrick Leahy (right), Vermont Democrat and president pro tempore of the Senate, and Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican, walk to the floor of the Senate on Capitol Hill on May 6, 2013, during a vote on legislation to collect sales tax on Internet purchases. (Associated Press)

GOP generational divide could sink Web sales tax bill: Study

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

Senate Judiciary Committee members (from left) Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, and Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat, confer Monday on the landmark immigration bill. (Associated Press)

Senate panel OKs tax-welfare benefits for newly legal immigrants

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Protesters hold signs outside a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform field hearing on a National Labor Relations Board complaint against Boeing Co., in North Charleston, S.C., on June 17, 2011. (Associated Press)

2nd court invalidates Obama’s recess pick for NLRB

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** President Obama applauds in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 18, 2013, during his announcement that he would nominate Thomas E. Perez (right) for Labor secretary. (Associated Press)

Perez, McCarthy pass hurdle to confirmation

By Ben Wolfgang and Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks Feb. 7, 2013, with The Associated Press in his Capitol Hill office in Washington. (Associated Press)

Rubio lists amendments to sweeten immigration bill

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

DIBACCO: The 17th Amendment turns 100

By Thomas V. DiBacco

"It is pretty unanimous that you have to address border security. This will put some real metrics to that. Take that out of the hands of the secretary of Homeland Security, and be more objective."

Securing border driving House’s immigration efforts

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Marilyn B. Tavenner (Associated Press)

Senate approves new Medicare/Medicaid chief

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times