House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he expects Congress to extend the existing government budget into early next year to ...

Two members of Congress are pressing officials for answers after NBC News exposed failures to notify relatives of dead people whose bodies were used for medical research. The politicians also ...

The state’s hospital industry is vying to secure its interests before Republicans take control of the White House and U.S.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about his new book, The ABCs of Democracy, and what's ...

The government faces another shutdown in five weeks and members have just returned from a month-long break. Both sides are ...

Arkansas Secretary of Education Jacob Oliva spoke Tuesday on the possibility of the U.S. Department of Education being shut down by the forthcoming presidential administration.

Content partner KARK said during a joint budget committee meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 13, Senator Gary Stubblefield asked Oliva about the impact the shutdown would have on ... He said he would like to ...

House Republicans are planning to strategize with President-elect Trump on their path forward to funding the government past ...

Ahead of the Dec. 20 deadline, Republican leaders need to decide whether they want to push the cliff into Trump's second term ...

Returning lawmakers will be choosing the leaders for the next Congress and finishing work on the remaining priorities of the ...

I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” ...

Lawmakers are reportedly preparing a temporary bill to keep the government’s doors open until March as the nation faces a ...