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Senate Republicans kill Obama’s jobs bill

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Senate rejects Obama’s $447B jobs bill

By Sean Lengell and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Holder’s honesty before Congress disputed in earlier high-profile cases

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, is chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. (AP Photo)

Harkin comes up with bipartisan education-reform bill

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, as chairman of the education panel had promised a reform bill in the spring. He is expected to present his plan Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Harkin has blueprint for education reform ready

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican (Associated Press)

Senate advances China-currency sanctions

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

Reid uses ‘nuclear option’ to block GOP amendments

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks during a news conference at the White House on Oct. 6, 2011. (Associated Press)

LAMBRO: Plotting a winning tax divide

By Donald Lambro - The Washington Times

Obama to senators: Explain opposition to jobs bill

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Not even Democrats want Obama’s jobs bill

The Washington Times

Joe Lieberman

Task force acts to protect computer networks

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Senate Dems propose millionaire tax

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

"The opposite danger is interpreting those words in a way that they will no longer work for a country of 308 million Americans who are living in the 21st century — work in the way those framers would have wanted them to work had they been able to understand our society." - Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer

In Hill testimony, justices lift high court’s veil

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Obama, while speaking at Eastfield College in Mesquite College, Texas, entreats Congress to pass the American Jobs Act. "Right now, he won't even let this jobs bill have a vote," the president said of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican. (Associated Press)

Obama, Cantor spar over jobs-stimulus bill

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

China currency sanctions hit snag on Hill

By Sean Lengell and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

**FILE** Sen. Lindsey Graham (left), South Carolina Republican, confers Oct. 3, 2011, with Sen. Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, following a vote that clears the way for debate on a bill that would impose tariffs on Chinese imports as a penalty for currency manipulation on Capitol Hill. (Associated Press)

Boehner dismisses move to punish China on currency

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Illustration: Trade by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

GHEI: Reliving the Great Depression

By Nita Ghei - The Washington Times

PUSHING FOR A VOTE: President Obama says he will personally appeal to congressional leaders in coming days to set a vote on his American Jobs Act. (Associated Press)

Obama signals impatience on jobs bill

By Sean Lengell and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin

GOP eyeing upset in West Virginia governor race

By Paige Winfield Cunningham - The Washington Times

President Obama holds ups his proposed American Jobs Act legislation while speaking at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver on Sept. 27, 2011. (Associated Press)

CURL: The jobs plan that couldn’t

By Joseph Curl - The Washington Times