** FILE ** Councilman David Catania questions a witness during a hearing held by the D.C. Council Monday, March 28, 2011, in Washington, D.C., about the hiring processes in Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Dane Ellis, a full-service attendant at the Exxon station at the corner of 4th Street S.E. and Pennsylvania Avenue S.E. in Washington, D.C., fills a car with gas on Monday, April 11, 2011. Gas prices here are already more than $4 a gallon, which is more than the national average. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Cherry blossoms frame the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on March 19, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Sen. Rob Portman (center), Ohio Republican, center, talks with a reporter about the closed-door briefing he and other members of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee received about the Benghazi attack on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at the U.S. Capitol. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley attends the Board of Public Works meeting at the State House in Annapolis, Md., on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley attends the Board of Public Works meeting at the State House in Annapolis, Md., on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner told the media, "I did my part," during a press conference on negotiations on the "fiscal cliff" at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
Charles and Caroline Brennikmeyer of Falls Church, Va. hug their dad, Maj. Oscar Brennikmeyer, U.S. Air Force, after he arrives on a military charter flight home from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. Friday was Charles' 14th birthday, and he said having his dad home was the best birthday gift ever. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
**FILE** Pro-life advocates march past the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012 as part of the March for Life. The group rallied at the National Mall and marched to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes that Roe v. Wade will be overturned. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
