The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will begin shutting down, weeks after Congress canceled ...

But in these shutdown standoffs, it can still be a lifetime. I think a lot of times leadership likes to prove they exhausted every option before the most realistic one has to pass.

Lawmakers have another self-imposed shutdown deadline on Friday, which is likely to result in one of two things - a shutdown or another continuation of the spending plans authorized a very long ...

Getting ahead of the shutdown was better politically for those vulnerable members. Remember, he only has a four-seat majority in the House, and he wants to keep it in the next election.