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President Barack Obama speaks on the fifth anniversary of his healthcare law, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama says he’s ready to sign Medicare doctor payment fix

By NEDRA PICKLER - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks on the fifth anniversary of his healthcare law, Wednesday March 25, 2015, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama taunts GOP on fifth anniversary of Obamacare

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama waves after speaking at the SelectUSA Investment Summit, hosted by the Commerce Department, Monday, March 23, 2015, in National Harbor, Md. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Obama shakes up staff, names first White House digital officer

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 26, 2015, file photo, Secret Service officers search the south grounds of the White House in Washington after an unmanned aerial drone was found on the White House grounds during the middle of the night. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

New videotape shows Secret Service bungling bomb threat at White House

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2015 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush pauses while speaking at a Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit. Running for president as part of a family dynasty is presenting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with inevitable comparisons he must address as he moves closer to a campaign for the White House. &quot;I recognize that as a result, my views will often be held up in comparison to theirs,&quot; Bush says, referring to his brother, former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H. W. Bush, in excerpts released early of a midday speech he's to give in Chicago Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

George W. Bush to attend Dallas fundraiser on behalf of brother Jeb

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, speaks at Liberty University, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, Monday, March 23, 2015, in Lynchburg, Va., to announce his campaign for president. Cruz, who announced his candidacy on twitter in the early morning hours, is the first major candidate in the 2016 race for president. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) **FILE**

JOSEPH CURL: Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign message all about Christianity, Reagan

By Joseph Curl

Polls show Sen. Ted Cruz is running toward the back of the pack for the 2016 Republican nomination and has work to do to attract fellow Hispanics. (Associated Press)

Ted Cruz immigration crackdown advocacy sparks fierce Hispanic backlash

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama stands with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Obama, Hillary Clinton hold another secret meeting

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Denis McDonough, Obama’s chief of staff, slams Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments in J-Street speech

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to dial back his pre-election rhetoric, telling an audience in Jerusalem that he is aware that his comments had "hurt some citizens of Israel" and that he was "sorry." In urging his supporters to get out and vote, he had said Arabs were voting in "droves" in an effort to oust him from office. (Associated Press)

Obama downplays Iran ‘death to America’ remarks, toes hard line on Benjamin Netanyahu

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks during a press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015. (AP Photo/Stefan Wermuth, Pool) ** FILE **

Haider al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, to visit Washington

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2013 file photo, honorees Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, co-hosts of "Live with Kelly and Michael," attend the 23rd Annual Broadcasting &amp; Cable Hall of Fame Awards in New York. The hosts announced Monday, March 23, 2015, that their program will head to the nation’s capital for this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll. The show will air live for the entire hour April 6 from the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden outside the East Wing of the White House. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

White House Easter Egg Roll to host Kelly and Michael live

Associated Press

FILE — In this Feb. 28, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the first White House Student Film Festival in the East Room at the White House in Washington. Student filmmakers pictured, Miles Pilchik, left, and Gabrielle Nafie, second right, second-graders, SciTech in New York, Kids; Kyle Weintraub, second left, seventh grade, from David Posnack Jewish Day School in Davie, Fla.; and Shelly Ortiz, high school senior at Metropolitan Arts Institute, from Phoenix, Ariz. Obama hosts the second annual student film festival on Friday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

White House shows children’s films about ‘giving back’ to society

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 24, 2011 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, to make a statement on Capitol Hill in Washington. American politicians like to pick and choose when they&#8217;ll abide by the storied notion that politics should stop at the water's edge, and when to give that idea a kick in the pants. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

John Boehner to visit Israel, Netanyahu

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Feb. 28, 2014, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the first White House Student Film Festival in the East Room at the White House in Washington. Student filmmakers pictured, Miles Pilchik, left, and Gabrielle Nafie, second right, second graders, SciTech in New York, Kids; Kyle Weintraub, second left, seventh grade, from David Posnack Jewish Day School in Davie, Fla.; and Shelly Ortiz, high school senior at Metropolitan Arts Institute, from Phoenix, Ariz. Obama hosts the second annual student film festival on Friday, March 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama to host White House Student Film Festival

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

President Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joseph R. Biden (left) and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, delivers a statement on Dec. 16, 2010, at the White House. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama might endorse candidate in Democratic primary: White House

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on Obama's assault on America by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

J.D. GORDON: Fighting Obama’s ‘transformation’ of America

By J.D. Gordon

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Likud party meeting in Or Yehuda near Tel Aviv on March 16, 2015, a day ahead of legislative elections. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Obama congratulates Benjamin Netanyahu, but not buying new stance on Palestinian state

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama waves after stepping of Marine One helicopter on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, March 18, 2015, after returning from a trip to Cleveland where he spoke about the importance of middle class economics to the City Club of Cleveland. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama issues executive order cutting the federal government’s greenhouse gas emissions

By Ben Wolfgang and David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2014 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Washington. Republicans lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts that directly shrink union membership. Walker's signing of right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin on Monday puts his defiance of organized labor even more at the center of his nascent presidential campaign. And the inability of unions to exact a price for the first round of legislation targeting them in 2011 is encouraging even more proposals to limit their power. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Congress moves to stop union ‘ambush elections,’ Obama readies veto

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times