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In a bipartisan vote, the House has passed Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to avert a government shutdown just days ahead of a Friday deadline. The final vote was 336-95 with more Democrats voting for the stopgap funding bill than did Republicans -- 209 to 127, respectively. The bill needed a two-thirds majority to pass.

Both the House and Senate will be in session this week. The House is continuing to push forward on fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills this week before government funding expires on...

Despite staunch conservative opposition, the House passed Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) two-step continuing resolution to keep the government funded just days before the shutdown deadline, sending it to the Senate, which is expected to pass the bill.

U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, Dean of the House, has filed for re-election once again. Rogers, who will turn 87 at the end of December, will be seeking an unmatched 23rd

The Kentucky Association of Manufacturers (KAM) is again urging the eight members of Kentucky's Congressional delegation to do all they can to avert a potential shutdown of the federal government 

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House took a broadly bipartisan vote Tuesday to fund the government into the new year, though the measure must pass the Senate by the end of

LONDON — A $30.7 million grant will make southeast Kentucky a center of technology — and inevitably economic development — long lacking in the region.

The latest stopgap measure will fund the government through January, after a similar bill was passed in September.

Over the objections of nearly 100 Republicans, the U.S. House in a bipartisan manner passed temporary spending bills that will keep the government from shutting down until the beginning of February, if the Senate passes the same measure.

Speaker Mike Johnson and his fractious Republican majority in the House won't govern. Too bad the country can't fully function until they do.