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Susan Crabtree

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Susan Crabtree was a reporter for The Washington Times.

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President Obama speaks at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., on March 15, 2013. The president urged congress to authorize $200 million a year for research into clean energy technologies that can wean automobiles off oil. (Associated Press)

Obama seeks trust to fund gas alternatives

On a day when a jump in gas prices helped end the stock market's two-week winning streak, President Obama said the U.S. must wean its cars and trucks entirely away from gasoline by the middle of the next decade.

March 15, 2013
President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, leave a meeting with House Democrats at the Capitol on March 14, 2013, joined by Democratic Reps. Frederica Wilson (left) of Florida and Terri Sewell (second from left) of Alabama. (Associated Press)

Obama tries to reassure Senate GOP on areas of common ground

President Obama rounded out his good-will tour with a third and final visit to Capitol Hill, telling Senate Republicans he would challenge Democrats on changes to entitlement programs if Republican members relent on raising taxes.

March 14, 2013
President Obama turns to reporters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, after his closed-door meeting with House Republicans to discuss the budget. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Obama: Meeting with House GOP was ‘useful’

President Obama hit both ends of the political spectrum Wednesday, spending the afternoon talking up areas of common ground with Republicans and the evening chatting up donors at a partisan fundraiser.

March 13, 2013
President Obama leaves the Capitol in Washington on March 12, 2013, after visiting with Senate Democrats in the first of four meetings with lawmakers this week to discuss the budget. (Associated Press)

Obama opens door to entitlement changes in grand bargain talks

President Obama opened the door to making significant changes to entitlement programs during a meeting Tuesday with Senate Democrats, though some among the lawmakers quickly warned that they would not go along with benefit cuts or a higher retirement age.

March 12, 2013
**FILE** House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, holds up a copy of the House Budget Committee 2014 Budget Resolution as he speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 12, 2013. (Associated Press)

White House: Paul Ryan’s budget math ‘doesn’t add up’

The White House dismissed GOP House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's new budget plan that would cut spending by $4.6 trillion through 2023 and balance the nation's fiscal books, saying the "math doesn't add up" and the proposal would harm middle-class Americans.

March 12, 2013
White House spokesman Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington on March, 11, 2013. (Associated Press)

White House denies OFA is selling access to Obama

The White House is strenuously denying that Organizing for Action, President Obama's former re-election campaign that morphed into a nonprofit group, is selling access to the president despite the group's own coy implications and his cooperation with it.

March 11, 2013
From left, Diane Millich, a member of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe in Colorado and domestic abuse survivor, Attorney General Eric Holder, Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, listens to President Obama speaks at the Interior Department in Washington on March 7, 2013, before signing of the Violence Against Women Act. (Associated Press)

Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act

President Obama signed into law an expanded Violence Against Women Act that gives gays more access to anti-domestic violence resources and grants more authority to American Indian courts.

March 7, 2013
White House press secretary Jay Carney during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House pushes for vote on contentious D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee

Facing the stiffest Republican opposition to a judicial nominee in two years, the White House is pushing for a confirmation vote this week on Caitlin Halligan's appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. White House spokesman Jay Carney on Tuesday said Republican opponents to Ms. Halligan should back down and confirm her without delay.

March 5, 2013

Liberals looking past Burwell’s Wal-Mart link

President Obama on Monday nominated Wal-Mart's Sylvia Mathews Burwell to head the Office of Management and Budget, a job which places her at the epicenter of the budget wars between the White House and Congress.

March 4, 2013
A delegate holds a face of President Obama on the night he accepts his party's nomination for a second term at the Democratic National Convention in the Time Warner Arena in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 6, 2012. (Barbara Salisbury/The Washington Times)

DNC won’t repay Duke Energy for Charlotte convention costs

The Democratic National Committee has no plans to repay Duke Energy for an unprecedented $10 million line of credit it guaranteed to help the Democratic convention's local host committee put on President Obama's three-day nominating convention in Charlotte, N.C., last September.

March 1, 2013
** FILE ** Then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood briefs reporters regarding the sequester on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013, at the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

White House sequester warnings fall on deaf ears

President Obama's apocalyptic predictions of the harm that would come to the country if the latest round of budget cuts kick in late next week are starting to wear thin among an unlikely group: the White House press corps.

February 22, 2013