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The Founders gave Congress more than enough constitutional weapons to check presidential excesses, most notably in the power of the purse and oversight subpoenas. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: Americans want Obama to work with Congress, not use pen and phone

Washington Examiner · February 13, 2014 5:00 am

As is the case with virtually every major regulatory initiative the EPA has launched in recent years, officials simply ignore or refuse such requests. (Photo: Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Time to end the ‘secret science’ at the EPA

Washington Examiner · February 12, 2014 5:00 am

PolitiFact editor Angie Holan defended her rating of President Obama's promise that "if you've got a health care plan that you like, you can keep it" as "true" in 2008, claiming that the rating was at least accurate at the time. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Examiner Editorial: Obamacare is what Obama wants it to be

Washington Examiner · February 11, 2014 5:00 am

Examiner Editorial: ‘Official Time’ shows Washington is too big to manage

Washington Examiner · February 10, 2014 5:00 am

Millions of dependable Democrat voters in unions may stay at home on Election Day 2014. (AP File)

Examiner Editorial: Obama’s tangled regulatory web angers unions, trade associations

Washington Examiner · February 10, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Examiner Editorial: Obama has lost all credibility on IRS and Benghazi

Washington Examiner · February 9, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., speaks during a meeting of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill and Offshore Drilling in Washington in September 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Political Buzz: Climate PAC gives Mary Landrieu heat over Keystone XL

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 5:00 am

Obamacare will cost $2 trillion and cut 2.5 million jobs by 2024

Washington Examiner · February 7, 2014 5:00 am

Crews work on construction of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline near Winona, Texas, in December 2012. (AP Photo/The Tyler Morning Telegraph, Sarah A. Miller)

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Obama should stop ‘studying’ Keystone XL and approve it

Washington Examiner · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that two of his recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional and their decisions therefore void, President Obama renominated one of those appointees, Sharon Block, back to the board. (AP/Jon Elswick)

Examiner Editorial: Obama’s labor board resurrects ‘ambush election’ rule

Washington Examiner · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Filing Endangered Species Act cases not only generates revenue from tax-funded attorney reimbursements; it also provides sensational copy for Big Green fundraising appeals. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Energy and Environment

Examiner Editorial: Big Green lawyers have hijacked the Endangered Species Act

Washington Examiner · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky.Â (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Examiner Editorial: Grassroots GOP looking for Hill leaders with backbone

Washington Examiner · February 3, 2014 5:00 am