Social Issues

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Tim Constantine reports, the public perception of the Congressional Budget is just business as usual.

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This May 1, 2008, photo shows U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts before the start of a ceremony at the federal courthouse in Washington. A Utah woman alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, March 16, 2016, that Roberts, a longtime federal judge, sexually assaulted her when he was a prosecutor and she was a teenage witness in a high-profile case 35 years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Making the rounds: Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland (right) spent Thursday meeting with many in Congress, such as Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, to sell his bona fides for the high court. (Associated Press)

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"Now I think it's time to turn our attention to comprehensive immigration reform," Hillary Clinton said, using the term immigrant-rights advocates use for legislation to legalize the 11 million illegal immigrants now in the country. (Associated Press)

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In this Wednesday, March 16, 2016, photo released by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), model Fabio poses during a naturalization ceremony at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles. Fabio, real name Fabio Lanzoni, the long-locked blonde Italian who became a cultural phenomenon in the 1990s, became a naturalized American citizen on Wednesday. (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services via AP)

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A Syrian refugee child plays at a playground at the Oncupinar camp for Syrian refugees next to the border crossing with Syria, near the town of Kilis in southeastern Turkey, Thursday, March 17, 2016. European Union leaders will push ahead Thursday with contested plans to send tens of thousands of migrants back to Turkey amid deep divisions over how to manage Europe's biggest refugee emergency in decades. Turkey hosts some 2.7 million people who have fled the five-year conflict in Syria, Turkey's neighbour to the south. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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A woman hangs clothing to dry at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, Thursday, March 17, 2016. Leaders of the EU's 28 divided nations plan to reconvene in Brussels this week in hopes of ironing out disagreements on a proposed agreement with Turkey in the migrants crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Economic Crisis in Puerto Rico Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Libertarian Party chairman Nicholas Sarwark says disenchanted "refugees" from the Republican and Democratic parties should consider a third party.

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The Great American Speech (Reaktion Books, 2015), by Stephen Fender.

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Celebrities love to get married, and divorced, and married again. When it comes to multiple marriages, which name does not belong on the list of famous people and their spouses?

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John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said the drawdown of U.S. troops and a stronger Taliban have prevented government inspectors from overseeing reconstruction efforts. (Associated Pres)

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Half of U.S. women say they have a "very unfavorable" view of Donald Trump, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday, up from 40 percent of women who had a very negative view of Mr. Trump in the same poll in October. (Associated Press)

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Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, Georgia Republican, said the budget is more conservative in future years, imposing limits on ballooning Medicaid spending, shifting control of the food stamp program to states and forcing major changes to Medicare, but conservatives still say the 2017 discretionary spending number is way too high. (Associated Press)

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President Obama and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan have come together on a budget number, but the Wisconsin Republican has agreed to listen to members of his party's rank and file who are calling for less spending. (Associated Press)

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In Utah last week, lawmakers were unable to garner enough votes to enact a capital punishment repeal bill before the end of the regular legislative session. "Given the pressure of the last night, the votes I needed to swing, I didn't see them swinging," Utah state Sen. Steve Urquhart, the bill's sponsor, said. (Associated Press)