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Anjali Shastry

ashastry@washingtontimes.com

Anjali Shastry covers Capitol Hill politics for The Washington Times. Originally from Cupertino, California, Shastry graduated from University of California, Santa Barbara, with a bachelor's degree in English and anthropology, and from University of Maryland, College Park, with a master's degree in journalism. She has previously written for American Journalism Review, Voice of America and the University of Maryland's Capital New Service wire. She can be reached at ashastry@washingtontimes.com.

Articles by Anjali Shastry

"I Voted" stickers lie on a table in the Norton Shores Library in Norton Shores, Mich. (Associated Press)

Democrats push to use Obamacare as voter registration drive

Maryland Democrats hope to break new ground in the push for universal voter registration, planning to wage a fight in the General Assembly this year to automatically sign up everyone who visits certain state social services agency or buys coverage through the state's Obamacare exchange.

January 6, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign stop, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Atkinson, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Marco Rubio calls for targeting terrorists online

Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said Monday that the United States government should adopt Web targeting and behavioral tracking techniques companies use to track consumer habits to hunt terrorists online.

January 4, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a campaign stop, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016, in Atkinson, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)

Marco Rubio: Use web-targeting tools to track terrorists

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio said Monday that the United States government should use Web targeting and behavioral tracking utilized by companies to track consumer habits to hunt terrorists online.

January 4, 2016
Former Phoenix VA Health Care System worker Dr. Katherine Mitchell, left, talks with Vietnam veteran Chuck Byers, right, before the two testify about the current state of the VA Medical Center in Phoenix during a Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee field hearing Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, in Gilbert, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

Phoenix Veterans Affairs whistleblower retaliators not punished

The VA has yet to fire or punish the senior managers in Phoenix who retaliated against whistleblowers who revealed massive dysfunction at the department, despite an internal audit from more than a year ago that said the two executives deserved to be "appropriate administrative action" or firing.

December 16, 2015
House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said that while the GOP may not get everything it wants in ongoing budget negotiations to keep the government open, he remains hopeful that the U.S. oil export ban, long on the Republican priority list, can be lifted. (Associated Press)

Congress closes in on budget deal to fund government

Congressional leaders agreed Tuesday to a sweeping deal that would fund the government through October, extend a package of popular tax breaks and lift the decades-old ban on U.S. oil exports -- a key policy win for GOP lawmakers who nonetheless said they didn't get everything they wanted out of the deal.

December 15, 2015
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., addresses supporters at the Oakland County International Airport, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Waterford Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Marco Rubio vows to clean up VA, says veterans deserve better

Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday that the VA needs to fire not just the top managers but the lower-level employees involved in blocking treatment of veterans, as he laid out his own plans to clean up a department that has become a public symbol of Obama administration dysfunction.

December 10, 2015
Deputy Veterans Affairs Secretary Sloan Gibson speaks during a news conference during a visit to a Denver veterans hospital. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Sloan Gibson lashes out during VA committee hearing

Fed up with more than a year's criticism, the Veterans Affairs Department lashed out at Congress, the press and its own internal watchdog on Wednesday, saying calls to fire bad workers won't change things at the troubled department.

December 9, 2015
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens" inspired the title for Sen. Jeff Flake's compilation of government waste. (Associated Press)

Flakes’ ‘Wastebook: The Farce Awakens’ targets federal spending waste

The Department of Veterans Affairs has struggled to find enough money to deliver health care to veterans in a timely fashion but managed to spend some $40 million on artwork at its clinics -- just one example of the bum decisions that Sen. Jeff Flake highlighted in this year's "Wastebook."

December 8, 2015