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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.

Articles by Dave Boyer

President Obama listens to reporters' questions in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (Associated Press)

Obama recruits children to push gun bans

Acting just a month after the Connecticut school shootings, President Obama will unveil a sweeping package of gun controls Wednesday and will challenge Congress to ban high-capacity magazines and military-style semi-automatic rifles involved in recent shooting rampages.

January 15, 2013
President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 14, 2013. (Associated Press)

Obama looking for some friends in GOP

President Obama lamented his loneliness in the White House on Monday and said he would have more friends in Washington if Republican lawmakers weren't so afraid of blowback from conservative media.

January 14, 2013
** FILE ** A Marine sentry stands guard at the White House on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, an indication that President Obama is working in the West Wing. (Associated Press)

Obama puts debt deal on shoulders of lawmakers

The White House this weekend rejected Senate Democrats' push for President Obama to do an end run around Congress and raise the government's borrowing limit, saying he won't test the limits of executive power and that it's up to lawmakers to strike a deal.

January 12, 2013
** FILE ** Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., on on Sept. 4, 2012. (Associated Press)

Newark Mayor Booker files for N.J. Senate

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising star in New Jersey Democratic politics, has taken a step toward a possible bid in 2014 for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Frank J. Lautenberg.

January 11, 2013
**FILE** David M. Walker, president and chief executive officer of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation (The Washington Times)

‘Truth … in between’ on raising debt ceiling

In the renewed battle over raising the nation's borrowing limit, President Obama says the government must take on more debt unconditionally to pay for the bills that Congress has racked up, while congressional Republicans counter that spending cuts must be included to break what they say is a ruinous cycle of endless borrowing.

January 10, 2013
The Rev. Louie Giglio of Atlanta, who was to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration, withdrew from the ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, after gay and lesbian groups protested anti-gay remarks he had made in the 1990s. (Associated Press)

Pressure from gays pushes pastor off inaugural agenda

The pastor chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama's inauguration withdrew from the ceremony Thursday after gay-rights groups complained that he once referred to homosexuality as a "sin."

January 10, 2013
President Obama (right) and his chief of staff, Jack Lew, confer. Mr. Lew, who previously served as the president's Office of Management and Budget chief, is said to be under consideration for Treasury secretary. (Associated Press)

Obama to nominate Lew for Treasury post

President Obama will announce Thursday afternoon his nomination of White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew to serve as Treasury secretary, a White House official confirmed.

January 10, 2013
President Obama shakes hands with Sen. John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, the president's choice to be the next secretary of state, as he makes the announcement at the White House on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. If Mr. Kerry is confirmed by his fellow senators, a special election will be held to fill his Senate seat. (Associated Press)

Questions abound as Obama restocks his Cabinet

President Obama will begin his second term with a much different leadership team than his first four years, with several of the key chairs in his Cabinet room yet to be filled.

January 7, 2013
Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) greets acting CIA Director Michael J. Morell after attending a news conference at the White House on Monday, at which President Obama announced that he is nominating his deputy national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism and John O. Brennan (left) as the CIA chief. (Associated Press)

Nominations pick fight with GOP

Chuck Hagel faces a tough confirmation fight, but rejecting President Obama's pick to head the Pentagon would be an almost unprecedented act for the Senate, which has rarely rejected a Cabinet nominee chosen from within its own ranks.

January 7, 2013
**FILE** President Obama speaks at the South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington on Dec. 31, 2012. (Associated Press)

Obama nominates 33 judicial picks, urges Senate to act

After a lackluster record of nominating judges in his first term, President Obama greeted the 113th Congress on Thursday by renominating 33 judicial candidates who failed to be confirmed in the last Congress.

January 3, 2013
President Obama waves as he deplanes from Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The president is back in Hawaii for vacation after a tense, end-of-the-new-year standoff with Congress over the "fiscal cliff." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama signs defense measure he once vowed to veto

Backing down on a threatened veto, President Obama signed into law a $633.3 billion defense bill with an attached statement in which he serves notice to Congress that he will interpret the law as he sees fit on issues ranging from the transfer of terrorism detainees to military chaplains' objections to the new policy on gay service members.

January 3, 2013
President Obama and Vice President Biden make a statement regarding the passage of the fiscal cliff bill in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Jan. 2, 2013. (Associated Press)

Tax hike deal: 
Obama’s first 
or GOP’s last?

President Obama and congressional Republicans have learned sharply different lessons from the deal to avert the "fiscal cliff" as they prepare to battle again over the next two months on a series of budget deadlines that carry risks such as crippling defense cuts and a government default.

January 2, 2013
President Obama smiles as he arrives in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington to make a statement regarding the passage of the "fiscal cliff" bill on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama: More revenue needed after ‘fiscal cliff’ deal

Following the House vote that averted the "fiscal cliff" Tuesday night by raising taxes on the wealthy, President Obama warned lawmakers that he quickly will seek more tax revenue from high earners and corporations and that he won't bargain in an impending battle over raising the nation's borrowing limit.

January 2, 2013
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada leaves the White House in Washington, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, after a closed-door meeting between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders to negotiate the framework for a deal on the fiscal cliff. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Senate leaders hopeful for last-minute ‘fiscal cliff’ deal

The top Democrat and Republican in the Senate emerged from a meeting at the White House Friday evening to say they are hopeful they can strike a last-minute deal to avert the tax increases and spending cuts looming in less than four days.

December 28, 2012
President Obama watches workers during a Dec. 10, 2012, visit to the heavy duty engines line at the Daimler Detroit Diesel plant in Redford, Mich. (Associated Press)

Unions dream big for Obama’s 2nd term

When President Obama spoke out forcefully against Michigan's right-to-work law, it was a rare example of the president putting on public display his support of organized labor.

December 26, 2012