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Stephen Dinan

Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and fellow Republicans are trying to shift focus away from a controversial letter to Iranian leaders last week and back toward details of the nuclear deal President Obama is negotiating with the Islamic republic. (Associated Press)

Republicans demand voice on Iran deal

Republicans will try to find their footing anew on national security this week, looking to try to overcome last week's ill-received letter to Iran's leaders and instead focus on President Obama's negotiations, and on Congress' role in approving whatever deal he strikes with Tehran. Published March 15, 2015

In this March 2, 2015 photo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers try to gain entry to an apartment building, in the Bronx borough of New York, during a series of early-morning arrests. Immigrant and Customs Enforcement say an increasing number of cities and counties across the United States are limiting cooperation with the agency and putting its officers in dangerous situations as they track down foreign-born criminals. Instead, more of its force is out on the streets, eating up resources and conducting investigations because cities like New York and states like California have passed legislation that limits many of the detention requests issued by immigration authorities. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Amnesty makes illegals eligible for all Social Security benefits: report

A Nebraska senator will introduce a bill Monday that would deny Social Security numbers to illegal immigrants approved for President Obama’s new deportation amnesty, as a new congressional study finds that those granted work permits under the amnesty would be eligible for all Social Security benefits. Published March 13, 2015

Late last year, or 18 months after she left office, Mrs. Clinton turned over 55,000 printed pages she said contained about 30,000 emails she believed were work-related that she sent during her time in office. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton email scandal: State Department to reopen court case

The State Department agreed to reopen at least one open-records court case that involved former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton's emails, a conservative watchdog group told a federal court Thursday as the scandal over her personal email server continued to develop. Published March 12, 2015

President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (credit: White House photo/Pete Souza)

Obama asks appeals court to re-start amnesty

The administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to let President Obama's amnesty go into effect immediately, calling a lower judge's ruling halting the amnesty "unprecedented and wrong," and saying illegal immigrants will suffer until the policy begins. Published March 12, 2015

"Hundreds of thousands of enrollees lost their plans when co-ops in nine states collapsed, and these victims deserve clear and honest answers from the bureaucrats who oversaw the mess," said Sen. Ben Sasse, Nebraska Republican. (Associated Press)

Senators demand to know how many illegals got Social Security numbers

The administration doled out about 90,000 Social Security numbers to illegal immigrants in the first months of President Obama's first amnesty in 2012, according to two GOP senators who demanded Thursday to know how many since then have been granted, and whether any benefits are already being paid out. Published March 12, 2015

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Immigrants’ birth rates tumble as effect on population growth debated

Immigrants' birth rates have fallen precipitously in recent years, according to a report being released Thursday by the Center for Immigration Studies, which says the numbers undercut the argument immigrants are critical to ensuring the U.S. maintains its generous social safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Published March 12, 2015

Answering questions for the first time about her emails, Hillary Rodham Clinton said she's turned over to the State Department 55,000 pages of emails she deemed work-related, but said she got rid of the rest last year. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton deleted 32,000 ‘private’ emails, refuses to turn over server

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton deleted nearly 32,000 emails she deemed private from her time in the Obama administration and refused Tuesday to turn over her personal email server, insisting she "fully complied" with the law and that voters will have to trust her judgment. Published March 10, 2015

Hillary Rodham Clinton's silence has left fellow Democrats to field pointed questions, with some saying she needs to be more forthcoming, while others have wavered, saying they believe the issue has been stoked by Republicans eager to score political points on the presumptive front-runner for Democrats' 2016 presidential nomination. (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton email scandal spreads as tea party group seeks private IRS messages

One of the tea party groups targeted by the IRS asked Congress Monday to demand the private emails of some agency employees, while a top committee chairman issued a request for instant-chat messages from the EPA, as the Clinton emails scandal begins to envelop other parts of the Obama administration. Published March 9, 2015

President Obama speaks at the White House in Washington on March 1, 2013. (Associated Press)

Obamacare premiums to spike, but law is cheaper than expected

Obamacare exchange customers are about to see spikes in their premiums, the Congressional Budget Office predicted Monday, saying insurers that offer plans are facing twin pressures from the government and the marketplace that will mean hikes of more than 8 percent a year through 2018. Published March 9, 2015

National Park Service employees remove barricades from the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013. Barriers went down at National Park Service sites and thousands of furloughed federal workers began returning to work throughout the country Thursday after 16 days off the job because of the partial government shutdown.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Essential federal workers lawsuit demands extra shutdown back pay

The administration Monday will send notices to about 1 million of its employees who worked during the 2013 government shutdown and who are eligible to join a lawsuit accusing their agencies of breaking the law and demanding extra back pay. Published March 8, 2015

The House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, confers with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at the start of the panel's third public hearing to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

Democrats say Benghazi subpoena politicizes Clinton email probe

Democrats on Friday accused Republicans running the special Benghazi investigation of turning former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's email troubles into a political circus, saying there was no need to issue an official subpoena for them. Published March 6, 2015

The states challenging President Obama's deportation amnesty have already won the first round in court after the case landed in the lap of Judge Andrew S. Hanen, a Bush appointee who issued a scorching rebuke to the Department of Homeland Security last year, accusing it of refusing to follow border security laws. (Associated Press)

Obama lawyers misled federal judge in amnesty case

President Obama's lawyers misled a federal judge when they said they weren't approving any applications under his expanded deportation amnesty, Texas charged in new court papers Thursday that said the breach is serious enough that the court should allow legal discovery to get to the bottom of the matter. Published March 5, 2015

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio walks to the House chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. Boehner’s job is safe despite passing yet another big bill that most of his Republican colleagues oppose, as he did Tuesday to avert defunding the Department of Homeland Security. But Boehner and his leadership team appear destined to confront fratricidal fights for months to come. The friction exposes deep GOP ideological differences as the 2016 presidential campaign gets under way. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

John Boehner, top Democrats demand Obama arm Ukraine

House Speaker John A. Boehner and top Democrats and Republicans on all of the key security committees called on President Obama to provide lethal American arms to Ukraine, firing off a bipartisan letter Thursday saying Congress has already given him permission, and he needs to act soon to stop Russian aggression. Published March 5, 2015