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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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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., answers questions from reporters on the way to a floor vote at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bernie Sanders attacks Business Roundtable, offshore tax havens

Sen. Bernard Sanders took aim at some of America's biggest corporations Wednesday in his crusade to raise taxes on the wealthy, accusing the companies of "legalized tax fraud" for using off-shore banks to​ ​avoid U.S. taxes. Published February 18, 2015

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left) and House Speaker John A. Boehner lead the Republican-controlled Congress, but they have found themselves at a standstill over provisions attached to a Homeland Security spending bill aimed at blocking President Obama's executive actions on immigration. Republican strategists warn that the White House has a bigger "microphone." (Associated Press)

Homeland Security funding threat wrong Republican message, strategists say

The deck is stacked against the Republican-run Congress in a showdown with President Obama over Homeland Security Department funding, and the party's congressional leaders likely will be forced to back down if they don't quickly shift tactics, a GOP strategist warned Monday. Published February 16, 2015

FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2014 file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. A series of trips to Cuba by U.S. lawmakers is in doubt amid questions over the communist government's eagerness or ability to accommodate a surge of new interest and possible investment from the United States. American officials said the Cuban government has pushed off all congressional visits, including one by Pelosi, until at least mid-April. The Cuban Interests Section in Washington said some will go forward in the coming days, but others are postponed. Several members of Congress had planned to go to the island country this month. They included Pelosi, a California Democrat, and Sen. Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, who has proposed ending the U.S. travel embargo of Cuba. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Nancy Pelosi: Democrats are fighting for Obama, not illegal immigrants

Senate Democrats' filibuster of a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that would block deportation amnesty is not about the immigration issue but about respecting President Obama, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. Published February 12, 2015

Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said that his hearings on homegrown Muslim terrorism in 2011 have been vindicated in the ensuing years after many American Muslims have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State organization's ongoing campaign of terror. (associated press)

Peter T. King says Islamic State terror justifies 2011 Muslim House hearings

Rep. Peter T. King's series of hearings on the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorists in 2011 had Democratic lawmakers and Muslim-American groups screaming "witch hunt" and "Islamophobia," but the rising body count in attacks by radicalized Muslims who turn on their own countrymen has all but silenced the critics as a House committee takes up the issue again Wednesday. Published February 10, 2015

Larry Hogan aims to kill Martin O’Malley’s ‘rain tax’

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan took the first step toward repealing the state's "rain tax," which is levied on property owners for land with impervious surfaces to pay for EPA-mandated programs to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. Published February 10, 2015

President Obama is pushing Congress to grant him fast-track trade authority, which would allow him to independently negotiate trade deals and then bring them to Congress for an up-or-down vote without amendments or filibuster. (Associated Press)

Obama Asia trade deal, Trans-Pacific Partnership, in jeopardy amid bipartisan opposition

The trade agreement that is the linchpin of President Obama's Asia policy is in jeopardy of breaking apart because of a lack of trust on Capitol Hill on both sides of the partisan aisle, with opposition mounting from tea party Republicans and rank-and-file Democrats who don't have faith in the president's ability to negotiate a good deal. Published February 9, 2015

Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont independent, speaks Feb. 9 at the Brookings Institution in Washington. (Brookings Institution)

Bernard Sanders claims far-left lane in Democratic presidential race

Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, who is eyeing a 2016 run as a Democrat for president, staked out an economic agenda Monday that is far to the left of his most liberal colleagues, including advocating a government-run Medicare-for-all health care system. Published February 9, 2015

Obama trade policy riles Democrats representing middle class

The political jabs hurled Thursday at President Obama sounded like the sorts of attacks he usually launches at Republicans, but it was a faction of House Democrats slamming the president for pursuing trade policies they say are hurting the same people he is trying to help with his "middle-class economics" pitch. Published February 5, 2015

"The president has always shown a penchant for increasing the size of government and increasing the reach of government," said House Committee on the Budget Chairman Tom Price, Georgia Republican. "It's hard to have a government that isn't as regulatory and prescriptive as the president wants without having more people." (Associated Press)

Obama budget calls for largest federal civilian workforce since Cold War

The federal civilian workforce will reach its highest level since the end of the Cold War under the budget President Obama submitted to Congress on Monday, surging by more than 100,000 employees over the next two years as he tries to restock agencies he says have been decimated by GOP-led cuts. Published February 2, 2015

Former New York Republican Gov. George Pataki arrives Monday, Jan. 12, 2015, in Concord, N.H. during a visit to the nation’s earliest presidential primary state. Pataki is considering a run for the 2016 presidential elections. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

George Pataki ‘seriously’ eyeing 2016 White House run

Former New York Gov. George Pataki said Monday that he is "seriously" considering getting into the crowded Republican race for president in 2016, and for good measure took a swipe at Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Published February 2, 2015

President Barack Obama shakes hands with House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., after making opening remarks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama rallies House Democrats to fight for liberal agenda

President Obama vowed Thursday to freely wield his veto power and confront the Republican-controlled Congress with an aggressive liberal agenda, as he rallied House Democrats to join him in the fight. Published January 29, 2015

Rep. Steve Israel, New York Democrat (Associated Press) **FILE**

Steve Israel dances around ‘redistribution’ in Democrats’ tax plan

The House Democrats' message guru touted plans to push rhetoric about championing the middle class and malign Republicans for siding with wealthy elite, but avoided using the word "redistribution" to characterize the party's plan to increase taxes on the rich to pay for tax breaks and other benefits for the middle class. Published January 29, 2015

Rep. Steve Israel of New York, who headed up House Democrats' campaign operation last year and now runs the Policy and Communications Committee, said Tuesday that his party had quickly regained its footing after taking a beating in the November elections. (Associated Press)

House Democrats, emboldened by Republican stumbles, rally around populist tax agenda

House Democrats are feeling emboldened as they head to their annual issues conference and a pep talk from President Obama in Philadelphia this week, relishing a series of stumbles by the Republican majorities in Congress and rallying around a populist tax-the-rich agenda that they are convinced will score points with voters. Published January 27, 2015

In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Bradley Cooper appears in a scene from "American Sniper." (AP Photo/Warner Bros. Pictures, Keith Bernstein)

John McCain salutes ‘American Sniper’

The movie "American Sniper" has won an Oscar nomination, struck box-office gold and now picked up a glowing review from Sen. John McCain. Published January 26, 2015