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National Edition Opinion cover for April 3, 2014 - Closer than ever to tapping Alaska’s natural gas (Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, March 25, 2014 file photo, U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, left, and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, speak with relatives during pre-launch preparations at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is at center background. In an announcement Wednesday, April 2, 2014, NASA says it is suspending its work with Russia except for the International Space Station. The move comes a week after the space agency said U.S.-Russian space relations were fine despite Russia's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. NASA employees are barred from traveling to Russia until further notice. Workers also can't email or hold teleconferences with their Russian counterparts. (AP Photo/Maxim Shipenkov, Pool, File)
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Liquefied natural gas vapors continue to leak leaving a frosty coating, Tuesday, April 1, 2014 on the damaged storage tank at the Northwest Pipeline facility near Plymouth, Wash. State and federal regulators looking for what caused the explosion at the liquefied natural gas facility began interviewing injured workers as an evacuation order covering hundreds of nearby residents was lifted. (AP Photo/Tri-City Herald, Bob Brawdy)
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Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Paul Vallas speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Chicago. Vallas is a former Chicago Public Schools CEO and made his first solo public appearance Wednesday in Chicago since winning the Democratic nomination. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Paul Vallas speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Chicago. Vallas is a former Chicago Public Schools CEO and made his first solo public appearance Wednesday in Chicago since winning the Democratic nomination. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Paul Vallas speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Chicago. Vallas is a former Chicago Public Schools CEO and made his first solo public appearance Wednesday in Chicago since winning the Democratic nomination. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Paul Vallas speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Chicago. Vallas is a former Chicago Public Schools CEO and made his first solo public appearance Wednesday in Chicago since winning the Democratic nomination. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2009 file photo, Ukrainian business tycoon Dmytro Firtash speaks in his office in Kiev, Ukraine. Firtash, one of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs and a major player in the sale of Russian natural gas to Ukraine allegedly spearheaded an international conspiracy to pay at least $18 million in bribes to mine titanium in India and sell it to a Chicago-based company, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday, April 2, 2014, by U.S. prosecutors in Chicago. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, file)
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FILE - This June 22, 2012 file photo shows a Tesla Model S driving outside the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. Electric-car company Tesla Motors has filed notice it intends to sue New Jersey over a ruling that would stop it from selling its vehicles in the state within two weeks. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla claims it was unfairly targeted in March 2014 when the state Motor Vehicle Commission amended its regulations. The regulations require new-car dealers to have franchise agreements before they can be licensed. That prohibits companies from using a direct-sales model as Tesla does. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., center, flanked by committee member Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., left, and the committee's ranking member Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., begins the markup of budget plan that would slash $5.1 trillion in federal spending over coming decade and promises to balance the government's books with wide-ranging cuts in programs like food stamps and government-paid health care for the poor and working class, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., center, presides over a markup session where House Republicans are crafting a budget-balancing plan that sharply cuts spending on transportation, health care programs for the middle class and the poor, food stamps and other domestic initiatives, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ryan is flanked by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., right, the committee's ranking member, and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
