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  • **FILE** President Obama speaks Sept. 23, 2011, about No Child Left Behind Reform at the White House. (Associated Press)

    Official: 10 states get education waiver

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  • Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

    HUNTER: Sinking Navy in sea of red ink

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  • Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)

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  • **FILE** Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (Associated Press)

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  • ** FILE ** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, discusses the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

    House passes insider trading bill

    The House on Thursday passed a bill banning Congress and executive branch officials from insider trading, but it brushed aside a provision aimed at reining in those who pry financial information from Congress and sell it to investment firms.

  • ** FILE ** House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, discusses the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

    Huge House majority backs insider trading ban

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  • The Washington Times

    DECKER: Five questions with Gary Johnson

    Gov. Gary Johnson is a candidate for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination. During two terms as New Mexico's governor from 1995-2003, he vetoed over 750 bills (more than the rest of the nation's governors combined) and left government service with his state being one of only four with a balanced budget.

  • A worker leaves with a moving box Wednesday at Solyndra in Fremont, Calif. The solar-panel manufacturer, which received a $535 million loan from the U.S. government, has announced layoffs of 1,100 workers and plans to file for bankruptcy. A weak economy and strong overseas competition have proved insurmountable. (Associated Press)

    Republicans accuse White House of Solyndra stonewall

    House Republicans accused the White House on Thursday of stonewalling a congressional probe into the failed $535 million loan guarantee to bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra LLC, and threatened to issue subpoenas later this month to secure interviews with "key administration staff."

  • ** FILE ** U.S. Marine Sgt. Monica Perez (left) of San Diego helps Lance Cpl. Mary Shloss of Hammond, Ind., put on her head scarf before heading out on a patrol in the village of Khwaja Jamal in the Helmand province of Afghanistan in August 2009. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

    Sources: Pentagon rules shifting on women in combat

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  • **FILE** Rep. Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican (Associated Press)

    House passes bill giving president line-item veto

    The House has taken the unusual move of agreeing to cede some of its highly guarded purse string power to the White House, voting Wednesday to give the president a modified line-item veto on spending bills.

  • House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican

    Boehner: Congress will undo contraception rule

    House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday his fellow Republicans are already working on legislation to undo President Obama's new health care rule forcing religiously affiliated institutions to provide insurance coverage for contraception, sterilization and other procedures they may morally oppose.

  • FILE - This Feb. 20, 2011 file photo shows freshman at the University of Montana, from left, Jake Coburn, Stephanie Ralls and Claire Dal Nogare, visiting a statue of Jesus Christ at Whitefish Mountain Resort Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011 in Whitefish, Mont. An atheist group has filed a lawsuit demanding the removal of this mountaintop Jesus statue on federal land in northwestern Montana after the U.S. Forest Service reversed itself amid an outcry and said the statue could stay. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Linda Thompson, File)

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    EDITORIAL: Clean green fraud

    The spectacular failure of Solyndra opened a lot of eyes. Yet the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer is far from the only fly-by-night outfit to take advantage of the current "green energy" fad. No program is more ripe for abuse than the renewable fuel standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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