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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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President Barack Obama meets with a group of "Dreamers" in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 4, 2015. (Associated Press **FILE**

Obama: Democrats can sustain veto in immigration battle

President Obama said Wednesday that Democrats have enough votes in Congress to sustain his planned veto of Republican efforts to block his deportation amnesty program, and he accused the GOP of ignoring terrorism in a fight over homeland security funding.

February 4, 2015
White House Press secretary Josh Earnest said the GOP hasn't yet come to the table yet to discuss Social Security reform with President Obama. (Associated Press)

Obama will talk Social Security cap with GOP

The White House said Tuesday President Obama is willing to discuss with Republicans a measure to limit the growth of Social Security benefits, a proposal that Mr. Obama didn't even include in his fiscal 2016 budget plan after it drew a hostile reaction from Democrats.

February 3, 2015
Pediatrician Charles Goodman vaccinates 1-year-old Cameron Fierro with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, or MMR vaccine at his practice in Northridge, Calif., on Jan. 29, 2015. Some doctors are adamant about not accepting patients who don't believe in vaccinations, with some saying they don't want to be responsible for someone's death from an illness that was preventable. (Associated Press)

White House says vaccinations are ‘common sense’

The White House said Tuesday that President Obama believes the benefits of vaccinations for children are "crystal clear," even though Mr. Obama said in 2008 that the science was "inconclusive."

February 3, 2015
Jordan responded to the Islamic State's burning execution of pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh by hanging at least two convicted terrorists at dawn Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Muath al-Kaseasbeh, Jordanian pilot, burned alive in ISIS video

Islamic State extremists released a horrific video Tuesday showing a Jordanian pilot being burned to death in a cage by his captors, an execution that drew international condemnation and a vow from President Obama to redouble efforts to destroy the terrorist group.

February 3, 2015
In a Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama says he won’t accept budget that doesn’t raise spending

With $3.999 trillion in total spending, more than $1 trillion in new taxes over the next decade and a host of controversial new spending, the 2016 budget President Obama submitted Monday amounted to a declaration of political war against Republicans on Capitol Hill, who flatly declared his plans dead.

February 2, 2015
President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015, calling for an investment to move away from one-size-fits-all-medicine, toward an approach that tailors treatment to your genes. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Obama’s budget would raise taxes, eliminate spending caps

President Obama is introducing a $3.99 trillion federal budget Monday for fiscal 2016 that would eliminate what the White House called the "mindless austerity" of sequestration cuts and would raise taxes on capital gains and corporations doing business overseas.

February 2, 2015
President Obama said that 99.9 percent of Muslims are peace-loving. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Obama says terrorists not motivated by true Islam

Criticized for avoiding the phrase "Islamic extremism," President Obama said he doesn't want to alienate the majority of peace-loving Muslims as the U.S. fights to defeat terrorist networks around the world.

February 1, 2015
Smoke still rises from a destroyed house that was damaged in Saturday's shelling in the Vostochniy district of Mariupol, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 26, 2015. At least 5,100 people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since fighting began in April 2014, but violence this week was the most intense since a cease-fire deal was signed in September. Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Black Sea still controlled by Ukrainian forces, has been a symbolic bulwark against the separatist advance that if captured by the rebels would give them a land corridor to Russia-controlled Crimea. The city had been relatively quiet for months before Saturday's attack.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russia sanctions fail to stop Ukraine fighting

The Obama administration condemned new attacks by Russian-backed forces in Ukraine Thursday, and the European Union extended sanctions against Moscow and its allies because of the continued fighting.

January 29, 2015
FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2015, President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. The White House said Tuesday, Jan. 27, it is dropping a proposal to scale back the tax benefits of college savings plans amid a backlash from both Republicans and Democrats. Obama made the proposal as part of his State of the Union address. It was part of Obama's plan to consolidate and simplify a sometimes confusing array of tax breaks for college students. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

White House backs off plan to tax college savings

Republicans scored one of their first victories of the new Congress on Tuesday when the White House signaled it was abandoning a plan that would have raised taxes on a popular college-savings plan.

January 27, 2015