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Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr.

Tom Howell Jr. covers politics and the White House for The Washington Times. He can be reached at thowell@washingtontimes.com.

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President Barack Obama listens as Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016, at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama thanks insurers for sticking with his health care law

President Obama on Monday thanked insurers who will offer coverage on Obamacare's insurance exchanges next year despite challenges that have caused companies like Aetna and UnitedHealth Group to largely withdraw from the program. Published September 12, 2016

Republicans say instability in the Obamacare marketplace has left them no choice but to prop up the 2010 Affordable Care Act before killing it so there isn't more chaos during the transfer to a replacement sytem. (Associated Press)

GAO: Obamacare exchanges still vulnerable to fraud

Obamacare's web exchanges are still "vulnerable to fraud," according to a watchdog report Monday that says government investigators were able to get taxpayer-subsidized coverage for fake enrollees despite a brand-new safeguard against chicanery on the law's insurance exchanges. Published September 12, 2016

In this July 21, 2016, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Obama marks 9/11 anniversary with plea for unity

As Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama said Sunday that the U.S. must resist extremists' efforts to divide the country. Published September 11, 2016

Vice President Joe Biden pauses pauses while speaking atthe Center for American Progress' meeting on middle-class economic security, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Joe Biden to GOP: Deal with Zika, guns and Judge Merrick Garland

Vice President Joseph R. Biden reprised his role as the consummate Capitol Hill dealmaker Thursday by urging his former GOP sparring partners to dispense with a series of election-year crises that are "bigger than partisan politics." Published September 8, 2016

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said "we need to have a (Zika funding) bill that is clean, that comes to the floor. And by clean, I mean no poison pill."

Congress seeks to break impasse over Zika funding

Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday reached for a way out of a months-long impasse over funding to combat the Zika virus, as the election-year standoff gets snared in a broader fight over how to keep the government running beyond this month. Published September 7, 2016

In this frame grab from video provided by C-SPAN, Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla. holds a container of mosquitoes while speaking of the House floor on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. "The politics of Zika are garbage right now," the Florida lawmaker said in a short, angry speech condemning Congress for failing to pass legislation providing $1.1 billion to combat the mosquito-borne virus. (C-SPAN via AP)

David Jolly brings mosquitoes to House floor to highlight Zika

An easel and a chart or two just weren't good enough for Rep. David Jolly of Florida on Wednesday, who brought a jar of about 100 mosquitoes to the House floor on Wednesday to highlight the perils of the Zika virus in his home state. Published September 7, 2016

In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, a health workers stands in the Sambadrome spraying insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)

WHO: No Olympics-related Zika cases so far

There have been no confirmed reports of Zika infection among people who attended the Olympic Games, the World Health Organization said Friday, saying the good news to date justifies their decision not to interfere with the event in hard-hit Brazil. Published September 2, 2016