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Colorado State Sen. Steve King speaks at the podium during a debate period on gun control bills before the Colorado Legislature, at the State Capitol, in Denver, Friday March 8, 2013. Colorado Senate Democrats advanced an expansion of background checks on firearm purchases as part of a package of bills responding to the shootings in Aurora and Connecticut. (Associated Press)

Colo. passes expansion of firearms checks

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After wining and dining some Senate Republicans, President Obama is heading to Capitol Hill this week to try to make more friends in the GOP. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The Walking Dead

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Former Massachusetts Gov. and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at the 40th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. on March 15, 2013. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

CPAC 2013: Romney urges GOP to look to governors for guidance

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Rep. Bette Grande testifies before the House Human Services Committee in Bismarck, N.D., Jan 31. 2013. The North Dakota Senate approved two anti-abortion bills Friday, March 15, 2013, one banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy and another prohibiting the procedure because of genetic defects such as Down syndrome. (AP Photo/James MacPherson)

North Dakota close to banning abortions at 6 weeks with ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill

By James MacPherson - Associated Press

**FILE** Sen. Dianne Feinstein seeks to reimpose weapons bans that expired in 2004. The California Democrat’s current bill would go further than her 1994 law, which was sunsetted. (Associated Press)

Broadest gun ban in two decades clears Senate committee

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, leave a meeting with House Democrats at the Capitol on March 14, 2013, joined by Democratic Reps. Frederica Wilson (left) of Florida and Terri Sewell (second from left) of Alabama. (Associated Press)

Obama tries to reassure Senate GOP on areas of common ground

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

“You’re using the money twice. You’re providing cuts that you’re now telling me are used to pay down the sequester,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions to Sen. Patty Murray of Washington. (Associated Press)

Sessions questions math in Democrats’ budget

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz (Associated Press)

Sen. Ted Cruz’s push to withhold ‘Obamacare’ funds ends in defeat

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

‘No sacred cows’ in Democratic spending plan

By Sean Lengell and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Victoria Nuland (Associated Press)

State Department has ‘fingers crossed’ Congress won’t drop ball on security funding

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, center, flanked by FBI Director Robert Mueller, left, and CIA Director John Brennan, right, listen during the Senate Intelligence Committee annual open hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Cybersecurity threat rises: Intel heads plead with Senate for new hires

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

SGT. SHAFT: Medicare cannot be billed for VA health care, except in certain referrals

By Sgt. Shaft - The Washington Times

Richard Cordray and Mary Jo White are sworn in March 12, 2013, before testifying in front of the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill for their confirmation hearings. Cordray and White are President Obama's picks to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Securities and Exchange Commission, respectively. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

GOP lawmakers grill consumer finance chief

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Charles Schumer, New York Democrat, speaks Jan. 24, 2013, during a news conference with a coalition of members of Congress, mayors, law enforcement officers, gun safety organizations and other groups on Capitol Hill in Washington to introduce legislation on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices. (Associated Press)

Senate panels OKs broad background checks for gun buys

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

**FILE** Caitlin J. Halligan (left), then a lawyer for New York, and David Boies, a lawyer for Court TV, talk in the Court of Appeals in Albany, N.Y., on April 27, 2005, before Boies represented a cable television channel in their suit against the state to reverse a ban on cameras in the courtroom. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Withdraw the Halligan nomination

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat

Democratic Sen. Patty Murray’s budget plan delivers $1 trillion tax increase

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5, 2013, following a Democratic strategy session. (Associated Press)

Senate Democrats join push to cut Obama’s illegal immigrant advocate

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, speaks about the 2014 Budget Resolution during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 12, 2013. (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan introduces GOP budget, sees balance in decade

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gina McCarthy stands on stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington on March 4, 2013, as President Obama announced he would nominate McCarthy to head the EPA. (Associated Press)

EPA email: Goal was ‘shaming’ states into compliance

By Stephen Dinan - 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)

Marco Rubio chides U.S. travelers: Cuba ‘is not a zoo’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times