Refusing to fund the government is the primary way minority party lawmakers can check the excesses of the executive branch and the majority party.

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The White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) has issued a Request for Information on how technology and innovation have been used - successfully and unsuccessfully - to address barriers to ...

With the shutdown over a week old, parts of the government have closed, as Congress continues to disagree over how to fund it. Read more here.

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma House Speaker-elect Kyle Hilbert is asking Oklahomans to send in their complaints about the state government. Hilbert, R-Bristow, announced a government efficiency survey last ...

Daren Bakst is the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Environmental extremism in government is increasingly becoming unhinged, both domestically ...

Hearst Connecticut Media has launched an occasional series, “Your Money, Your State,” looking at how state government spends taxpayer money. The first story discussed the difference between pork and ...

NPR’s radio show “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” features a weekly quiz on recent news headlines. I idly listen and shout out answers when I can, and if you listen to public radio, you probably do, too.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently issued a “first in the nation” executive order on gun violence, declaring it a “disaster emergency” in his state and vesting himself with the authority to treat it ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis this week offered a first glimpse at specific examples of what he calls wasteful spending in Broward County. But county leaders disagree, calling it an opinion.

Daniel Schorr, a senior news analyst for NPR, says the bungled campaign to obtain a death sentence for Zacarias Moussaoui is the latest example of government incompetence in the war on terrorism, and ...