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Republican delegates Chris Jones, center, and Scott Lingamfelter, right, talk with each other during debate on governor's amendments on the House floor at the Capitol, in Richmond, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Democratic Del. Mark Keam votes against the governor's amendement to cut funding for public broadcasting, on the House floor of the Capitol, in Richmond, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told an audience at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that he, too, found a family connection in the archives for the Civil War. It turns out his great-great-grandfather Abraham Burns was a member of the horse artillery. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced Wednesday that Civil War archives now will be available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (right) and TV journalist and author Cheryl Wills look at a book that contains Civil War draft registration records at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, following the announcement that Civil War records such as these will now be available online at Ancestry.com. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (right) talks with TV journalist and author Cheryl Wills following an announcement on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the National Archives in Washington that Civil War documents will now be available online outside the archives. The document seen here lists draft registrations for the war. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Cheryl Wills, a TV journalist and author of the book "Die Free," holds up a copy of the discharge record she found for her great-great-great-grandfather Sandy Wills, who served from 1863 to 1865 in the Union Army. Ms. Wills was on hand at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, as the archives announced that Civil War documents now will be made available online at Ancestry.com. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Paper conservator Annie Wilker, who works at the National Archives in Washington, unveils a volume that contains a register of Civil War draftees during an announcement on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the archives that Civil War documents such as this will now be made available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Andrew Carnegie (Line 15) is among those whose names are recorded in this volume of Civil War draft registrations, which is housed at the National Archives. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that Civil War archives such as this will be made available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told audience members at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that he, too, found a family connection in the archives for the Civil War. It turns out his great-great-grandfather Abraham Burns was a member of the horse artillery. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced Wednesday that war archives now will be available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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House Speaker John A. Boehner (right), Ohio Republican, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, speak to reporters after their meeting at the White House in Washington with President Obama regarding the budget and possible government shutdown, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray says a council member's accusation about his hiring of a member of the D.C. Office of Motion Picture and Television Development is "very objectionable." (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform is scheduled to join with NAACP officials and business and education leaders at National Press Club to discuss an alternative way of dealing with nonviolent felons, rather than just incarcerating them. (The Idaho Statesman via Associated Press)
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Inside the Capitol, Democrats and Republicans are trying to reach a compromise on the fiscal 2011 budget before the money runs out at midnight Friday. (Bloomberg)
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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray listens as Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton talks Wednesday about her attempts to get Congress to allow the District to spend its own funds for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. Her attempt failed an a federal shutdown would affect many facets of life in the city. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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The 2012 budget proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, (left next to Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Maryland Democrat) includes additional billions of dollars for defense but at a slower rate of growth. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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"We're not pretending anything. We're very clear," Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. "We'd rather be in there and call foul when that is appropriate and stand up for the principles and values that Americans hold dear and make important progress where progress can be made." (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** David Axelrod, President Obama's chief strategist, speaks on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the 13th annual National Action Network conference in New York. (Associated Press)
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MAN WITH A PLAN: Rep. Duncan Hunter says remote-control devices could be used to trigger explosives that kill and maim Americans. (Associated Press)
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A Libyan rebel runs for safety as shells explode in the distance on the frontline near Brega on Wednesday. Turkey is trying to broker a cease-fire in the fighting with Col. Moammar Gadhafi's forces. The rebels blame the Turks for a lull in the NATO airstrikes that aided their cause. (Associated Press)
