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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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President Obama sits in the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, an all-electric vehicle with an estimated range of 200 miles on a single charge, while touring the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. The man at left is unidentified. (Daniel Mears/Detroit News via AP, Pool)

Obama praises his auto bailout in Detroit, blasts GOP

As teachers staged a sickout that closed Detroit schools, President Obama took a victory lap in the city Wednesday, bragging about his administration's bailout of the auto industry in 2009 and chiding Republicans for opposing it.

January 20, 2016
In a message to Congress, President Obama said the EPA's new rule "is critical to our efforts to protect the nation's waters and keep them clean." (Associated Press)

Obama vetoes measure blocking EPA’s new rule on waterways

President Obama vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have blocked the administration's new regulation establishing federal authority over small waterways such as wetlands and ponds, a rule criticized by Republican lawmakers as a "power grab" by the EPA.

January 19, 2016
President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Iranians in prisoner swap indicted in exported technology

All seven of the Iranians who were granted clemency by President Obama in a prisoner swap last weekend had been indicted or convicted of exporting technology, industrial equipment or military equipment to Iran in violation of the U.S. trade embargo.

January 18, 2016
Cory Chanze, shieldman for the Ohio County Coal Company, surveys the longwall operation inside the Ohio County mine in Dallas, West Virginia. Miners are sticking to their preference for such underground work despite the Obama White House attempting to transition them into other lines of work. (Jared Wickerham/Special to the Washington Times)

Obama halts coal production on public land

The Obama administration announced a moratorium on new coal development on public land Friday while it studies the impact of the U.S. leasing program on climate change, prompting fresh criticism that President Obama is ramping up his "war on coal."

January 15, 2016
President Barack Obama speaks at University of Nebraska-Omaha, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. After giving his State of the Union address Obama is in Omaha to tout progress and goals in his final year in office. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama: GOP behaved selfishly from start of my presidency

Elaborating on his failure to heal the partisan divide in Washington, President Obama said Thursday his presidency got off to a bad start in 2009 because some Republican lawmakers were more concerned about their re-election than they were in helping him to save the nation from economic ruin.

January 14, 2016
"It's not true when you hear folks talking about how America's so weak," President Obama told supporters at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. "It's bluster. It's not serious. There's another word for it that starts with a 'b' — it's baloney." (Associated Press)

Obama accuses GOP of rooting against America’s strength

President Obama said Wednesday that Republican presidential candidates are full of "baloney" with their criticism that America has become weaker on his watch, and called it "weird" that some Republicans failed to applaud America's strength during his State of the Union address.

January 13, 2016