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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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A "discussion draft" by Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, to be released Tuesday would give the House a starting point to address Puerto Rico's $70 billion plight.

House Republicans’ draft legislation designed to save Puerto Rico

House Republicans will release draft legislation Tuesday designed to rescue Puerto Rico from its crippling debt crisis by imposing an oversight board to audit the U.S. territory's finances and put it on a path toward fiscal responsibility. Published March 28, 2016

President Barack Obama shares a humorous moment with a group of doctors from around the country in the Oval Office, Oct. 5, 2009, prior to a health insurance reform event at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

D.C. is worst place for doctors to practice: WalletHub

The nation's capital is the worst place for doctors to practice, according to a survey released Tuesday that looked at wages, the cost of malpractice and other factors that face a set of professionals who are highly paid and respected, yet reeling from student debt and an ever-shifting landscape. Published March 28, 2016

Shavonne Bullock, a recovering heroin addict, holds a demonstration dose of the medication Suboxone during an appointment at the West Division Family Health Center in Chicago on March 11, 2013. Each dose is incorporated on a dissolvable film, which is placed below the tongue where is dissolves and is absorbed into the bloodstream. Suboxone helps suppress withdrawal symptoms and reduce cravings for people recovering from addiction to opioid drugs. (Associated Press) **FILE**

HHS says Medicaid expansion will combat opioid crisis, mental illness

Nearly 2 million uninsured people with a mental illness or substance-abuse problem live in states that haven't expanded Medicaid, the administration said Monday in a report that urges state Republicans to embrace Obamacare as a pathway to recovery and economic growth. Published March 28, 2016

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. A new study suggests the worrisome Zika virus apparently has been in Brazil at least a year longer than experts previously thought. Some experts have speculated the virus first came to the Americas sometime in 2014. But the new study, led by Brazilian researchers, concludes Zika landed in Brazil a year earlier. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Zika probably hit Brazil in 2013, before World Cup: Study

Zika virus probably arrived in Brazil in mid-2013, researchers said Thursday in a study that says the World Cup soccer tournament and other stand-alone events probably aren't to blame for the outbreak that's been linked to serious birth defects in Latin America. Published March 24, 2016

In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

HealthCare.gov suffered 316 security incidents: gov’t report

The Obama administration reported more than 300 security incidents on its main Obamacare website during an 18-month span, according to a nonpartisan report Wednesday that says HealthCare.gov is weaker than it should be behind the scenes, despite front-end upgrades for consumers. Published March 23, 2016

Nuns with the Little Sisters of The Poor, including Sister Celestine, left, and Sister Jeanne Veronique, center, rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, as the court hears arguments to allow birth control in health care plans in the Zubik vs. Burwell case. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) ** FILE **

Birth control carve-out in Obamacare splits the Supreme Court

Catholic nuns and religious nonprofits that object to paying for employee contraceptives faced a deeply divided Supreme Court on Wednesday, as the liberal justices warned against allowing faith-based objections to stymie important government goals such as expanding access to women's health care. Published March 23, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan’s budget plan crushed by House conservative rebellion

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday that he still wants Congress to pass a budget this year, but a conservative rebellion has likely squelched those chances, forcing Republicans to plow ahead with the annual spending bills without the guidance of a full plan for the money. Published March 22, 2016

A health worker, center, takes the temperature of people to see if they might be infected by the Ebola virus inside the Ignace Deen government hospital in Conakry, Guinea, Friday March 18, 2016. The World Health Organization deployed specialists to southeast Guinea on Friday after two new Ebola cases were confirmed. The cases were announced just hours after Sierra Leone heralded the end of its recent Ebola flare-up, again dashing hopes that the deadly disease was gone from West Africa. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

DHS: Foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries can stay 6 more months

The Obama administration said Tuesday it will allow foreign nationals from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa to stay in the U.S. for another six months, even though global health officials said the outbreak that killed 11,000 people abroad is officially over. Published March 22, 2016

House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., joined by the House GOP leadership, talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 22, 2016, following a closed-door caucus meeting. In a response to a reporter’s question, Ryan said he's not worried that Donald Trump will cost Republicans control of the chamber in November's election. With Trump leading the race for the GOP presidential nomination, some in the party worry that his unbridled comments about women, Hispanics and others will cost Republican candidates in swing House districts. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Paul Ryan still pushing for GOP budget

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Tuesday that he wants to adopt a fiscal 2017 budget before annual spending bills hit the floor, though conservatives who balked at last year's bipartisan spending deal said they cannot support a blueprint until Congress cuts $30 billion as part of must-pass legislation. Published March 22, 2016

At the Supreme Court on Wednesday, six years after Obamacare became law, faith-based charities will try to convince justices that they deserve the same exemptions for contraception coverage as houses of worship and family-owned corporations. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy cast the key votes in earlier rulings. (Associated Press)

Faith charities eye Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in Obamacare birth control fight

When faith-based charities come to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, they will once again be aiming their arguments squarely at Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, hoping to convince him that they deserve the same carve-out from Obamacare's birth control rules that actual houses of worship enjoy. Published March 21, 2016

In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a researcher holds a container of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the Biomedical Sciences Institute at Sao Paulo University in Brazil. The Zika virus is mainly transmitted through bites from the same kind of mosquitoes that can spread other tropical diseases, like dengue fever, chikungunya and yellow fever. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Hillary Clinton to Congress: Approve Obama’s $1.9B Zika request now

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton told Congress Friday to swiftly approve President Obama's $1.9 billion request to fight the Zika virus at home and abroad, saying the outbreak linked to serious birth defects is "real," "dangerous" and threatening U.S. shores. Published March 18, 2016

In this Sept. 24, 2014, file photo, health care workers load a man suspected of suffering from the Ebola virus onto an ambulance in Kenema, Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

WHO: Sierra Leone is Ebola-free again

The World Health Organization on Thursday said Sierra Leone is Ebola-free once again, after a mid-January flareup spoiled West Africa's efforts to stamp out the two-year outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people. Published March 17, 2016