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    Despite all the promises of frugality in Washington, the newest version of the farm bill passed by the House boasts a pricetag near $1 trillion and manages to send plenty of subsidies back to influential special interests in lawmakers' home states.

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    ERICKSON: Missiles to meet the new threat curve

    When President Obama abandoned the Bush administration's negotiated missile and radar deployments in Poland and the Czech Republic, he doubled down on what has become known as the European Phased Adaptive Approach - a series of missile defense deployment strategies staggered over the next decade throughout the European continent designed to adapt to the changing threats facing the American homeland, our allies and interests abroad.

  • Illustration Big Brother's Eye by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    EDITORIAL: Something from George Orwell

    Sometimes the best defense against the Orwellian schemes of the government is the government's own incompetence. Federal bureaucrats want nothing more than a national database containing "biometric" information on the entire adult population.

  • Former government workers double-dipping on unemployment benefits, audit finds

    The downsizing of the U.S. government may not be returning all the taxpayer savings it was intended.

  • Foreign aid agency tends to gloss over problems in rebuilding Afghanistan

    "It's all good," rapper M.C. Hammer famously said, and that's something the U.S. Agency for International Development appears to believe about the country's reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

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    LUGAR AND DASCHLE: Defeating a global enemy — hunger

    Congress should put aside partisanship and turf protection as it considers bold changes to a decades-old and increasingly inefficient international food-aid program.

  • Defeating a global enemy — hunger

    Congress should put aside partisanship and turf protection as it considers bold changes to a decades-old and increasingly inefficient international food-aid program.

  • EPA slow to act on toxic chemicals, GAO finds

    The Environmental Protection Agency will need a decade or more to complete assessments of dozens of toxic chemicals it targeted under a more aggressive approach unveiled last year, according to the Government Accountability Office.

  • Feds spend billions on unused, empty buildings

    Everyone sat on plastic folding chairs, on a concrete floor in front of rows upon rows of empty industrial shelves.  Speakers sometimes had to pause, to keep the rumble of trucks outside from drowning out their words.

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    Lautenberg pushing explosives restrictions

    With new gun controls unlikely, Democrats have turned their attention to explosives, saying the Boston Marathon bombings should prompt Congress to require background checks for buying explosive materials.

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    SMITH: A good deal for the illegals

    Everyone has heard the phrase, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." That's precisely the predicament that Congress is in today with the Senate's immigration proposal. Though perhaps well-intentioned, the Senate proposal repeats the mistakes of the past.

  • Much of Obama clean energy aid to go unspent, negative publicity blamed

    The Energy Department expects to spend only a portion of its remaining advanced energy loan guarantee authority and funds, in part because of negative publicity caused by the high-profile failures of some recipients, the Government Accountability Office reports.

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    RUBENSTEIN: Collecting billions in a loophole

    As federal services from air-traffic control to White House tours are ratcheted down thanks to the budget sequestration, millions of illegal aliens are now eagerly await billions in illegitimate Treasury payments, courtesy of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

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    PAUL: Immigration reform starts with a secure border

    Congress is getting very close to debating comprehensive immigration reform. I am firmly committed to being part of reforming our nation's immigration laws. Conservatives and liberals agree that our complex immigration system is broken and in need of repair.

  • **FILE** Demonstrators carry signs during a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 5, 2006, in support of a bill to ban horse slaughter for human consumption. (Associated Press)

    Budget buffet: Obama moves to take horse meat off the menu

    Buried inside President Obama's budget this week is a demand that Congress stop inspections of horse meat slaughter plants — a move that would halt the industry, just as it's poised to ramp up again.

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