It was a busy week in Washington, D.C., so the Washington Free Beacon has assembled this sensible but timely guide to the week's events.
The Senate eased itself back in to its hyper-partisan fervor after its Presidents Day break.
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Jack Lew fought off paper tigers to be confirmed as treasury secretary with fairly broad support (71-26).
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Chuck Hagel endured a Republican filibuster to be confirmed as defense secretary despite a bloody confirmation process in which he was stabbed in the front and the back.
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Forty-one Republicans who love America voted against the confirmation.
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The biggest news was that Rand Paul voted in favor of Hagel.
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Sequestration welcomes us to March. Easter is also in March.
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The Obama Administration released illegal immigrant detainees and blamed it on sequestration.
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Secretary of Education Arne Duncan cried wolf, saying teachers were already receiving pink slips and that as many as 40,000 educators could be laid off...
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...but the Washington Post put the Education Secretary in a clown suit.
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Bob Woodward took aim at another White House and complained an Obama official told him he would "regret" writing a Washington Post op-ed critical of the administration.
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For two days afterward, smart people on Twitter showed how petty they were.
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