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S.A. Miller

S.A. Miller

S.A. Miller is the Politics Editor for The Washington Times. He can be contacted at smiller@washingtontimes.com.

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Hillary Clinton is the keynote speaker at the American Camp Association, New York and New Jersey’s Tri State CAMP Conference at the Atlantic City Convention Center, in Atlantic City, NJ, Thursday, March 19, 2015. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein)

Hillary Clinton’s top aides also used private email: report

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton not only used a private email account for official business, but communicated with her top aides through their private email accounts, according to a new report. Published March 23, 2015

Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch, Anne Arundel Democrat, said his chamber was "open" to dealing with the Senate bill nixing the rain-tax mandate. (Associated Press)

Michael Busch holds fate of Maryland ‘rain tax’ bill

The fate of Maryland's notorious "rain tax" now largely rests with one man — House Speaker Michael E. Busch — after the state Senate last week unanimously approved a bill that would end the state-mandated fee. Published March 22, 2015

FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2015, file photo, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republicans hammering the Obama administration about nuclear talks with Iran are accusing President Barack Obama of being so keen to strike a deal that he’s ignored Iranian moves to expand its influence across the Middle East. "The Iranians are now in Sanaa. They’re in Baghdad and Beirut and Damascus and meanwhile this president and secretary of state pursue the mirage of a nuclear agreement," McCain said in a recent speech. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

John McCain slams Dick Durbin for playing race card in Loretta Lynch vote

Sen. John McCain on Thursday scolded Senate Democratic Whip Richard J. Durbin for accusing Republicans of making Loretta Lynch "sit on the back of the bus" by delaying a confirmation vote on her nomination for attorney general, which could make her the first black female to serve as American's top cop. Published March 19, 2015

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2014 file photo, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka speaks in Washington. Republicans lawmakers in statehouses nationwide are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts that directly shrink union membership. Walker's signing of right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin on Monday puts his defiance of organized labor even more at the center of his nascent presidential campaign. And the inability of unions to exact a price for the first round of legislation targeting them in 2011 is encouraging even more proposals to limit their power. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Congress moves to stop union ‘ambush elections,’ Obama readies veto

President Obama faces his second veto test from the Republican-controlled Congress after the House gave final approval Thursday to a bill that kills the National Labor Relations Board's "ambush election" rule that speeds workplace votes on unionization. Published March 19, 2015

Rep. Bob Gibbs, Ohio Republican, questioned how the EPA can go forward with a rule expanding the reach of the Clean Water Act to ponds and ditches without knowing the breakdown of positive and negative public comments on the regulation. (ASsociated Press)

EPA to expand the Clean Water Act to ponds, ditches

The Environmental Protection Agency took public opposition to plans to extend its regulatory reach to ditches and ponds "extremely seriously" but will forge ahead anyway, a top agency official told Congress on Wednesday. Published March 18, 2015

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks at the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference and Presidential Forum in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Elizabeth Warren hijacks Senate hearing, blasts corporate settlements

Sen. Elizabeth Warren hijacked a Senate committee hearing on recreational hunting, fishing and shooting Thursday to advance her crusade against big business, calling for new laws to expose the details of legal settlements between the government and corporations accused of wrongdoing. Published March 12, 2015

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley discusses economic issues with reporters before speaking to a banquet at Kansas Democrats' biggest annual convention, Saturday, March 7, 2015, in Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/John Hanna) ** FILE **

Martin O’Malley says he was too busy to watch Hillary Clinton’s email presser

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who is eyeing a run for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Wednesday that he didn't watch former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's press conference where she addressed the email scandal and therefore didn't have any opinion about it. Published March 11, 2015

Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb holds up his union card as he speaks at the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) Legislative Conference and Presidential Forum in Washington, Tuesday, March 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jim Webb tests populist pitch to firefighter union

Former Sen. Jim Webb tested out his tough-talking populist stump speech Tuesday on the International Association of Firefighters, promising to fight for "true economic fairness" as he took another step toward a presidential run. Published March 10, 2015

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, got an enthusiastic reception at the International Association of Firefighters Legislative Conference and Presidential Forum Monday. (Associated Press)

Elizabeth Warren received enthusiastically by firefighters union

Add members of the International Association of Fire Fighters to the growing list of Democrats clamoring for liberal firebrand Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president and give the party an alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016. Published March 9, 2015

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, in his State of the State address in February, outlined plans for reforms to the state's legislative redistricting process. (AP Photo)

Larry Hogan’s rain tax repeal sunk by Democrats

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's push to repeal the state's "rain tax" was blocked Friday by a House committee, dealing the Republican governor his first legislative defeat at the hands of Democrat-run General Assembly. Published March 7, 2015

In this Oct. 18, 2011, photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya. Clinton used a personal email account during her time as secretary of state, rather than a government-issued email address, potentially hampering efforts to archive official government documents required by law. Clinton's office said nothing was illegal or improper about her use of the non-government account and that she believed her business emails to State Department and other .gov accounts would be archived in accordance with government rules. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Hillary Clinton email shenanigans help skirt Benghazi probe: Gowdy

Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said Tuesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's use of a personal email account to conduct official business has helped her skirt the the investigation. Published March 3, 2015

House Speaker John A. Boehner ultimately relied on Democrats to pass the legislation, sending a bill to Mr. Obama's desk that provided $40 billion to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year without restricting the president's immigration actions. (Associated Press)

Congress sends ‘clean’ Homeland bill to Obama

Four months after vowing to use Congress' power of the purse to block President Obama's deportation amnesty, House Republican leaders completed their retreat from a shutdown showdown Tuesday and surrendered to Democrats' demands for a "clean" homeland security funding bill. Published March 3, 2015

In this Feb. 25, 2014, photo, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio speaks to reporters following a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner has a possible escape from the homeland security funding impasse if he’s willing to use it: cooperative Democrats. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

John Boehner sets vote on ‘clean’ homeland security bill

House Speaker John Boehner has announced that the House will vote Tuesday on a homeland security funding bill without restrictions on President Obama's deportation amnesty, ending the shutdown showdown by conceding to Democrats' demands for a clean bill. Published March 3, 2015