Posted: 12:03 PM Republicans say President Barack Obama is right to talk about government living within its means but his actions don't match the words. You can watch the GOP weekly address here.

Posted: 12:02 PM President Barack Obama is calling for budget compromise that that "sacrifices wasteful spending without sacrificing the job-creating investments in our future." You can watch his weekly address here.

Posted: 5:46 PM 5th District Congressman Hal Rogers put the head of the Environmental Protection Agency on the hot seat today. Rogers said the EPA is headed in the “wrong direction” and has taken “dead aim at coal."

Updated: 5:40 PM Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and freshman Senator Rand Paul team up on a bill to “protect Kentucky coal jobs.” McConnell introduced the legislation saying the Obama administration is “engaged in a backdoor means of shutting down coal mines.”

Updated: 5:53 PM President Barack Obama says he will sign a stopgap bill that cuts billions of dollars in spending and averts a government shutdown. The Senate overwhelming passed a Republican-drafted stopgap bill today that trims $4 billion for the budget and keeps the government operating for two more weeks.

Updated: 5:36 PM (AP) - A new study by a federal watchdog agency finds that overlapping and duplicative federal programs waste billions of taxpayer dollars each year, adding fresh targets as lawmakers in both parties seek opportunities to cut spending.

Updated: 4:33 PM A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows most Americans say “it’s better to have a partial government shutdown until Democrats and Republicans can agree on what spending to cut.”

Updated: 3:05 PM A newly elected Republican Senator says President Barack Obama's budget proposal for next year fails to make the tough choices. You can watch the address here.

Posted: 11:27 AM President Barack Obama says a government shutdown is not an option in the budget fight. You can watch his weekly address here.

Posted: 11:21 AM Republicans are criticizing President Obama's proposed budget, saying it avoids significant changes to the country's costliest programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

Posted: 10:55 AM President Barack Obama says better education in math and science is critical to pushing the U.S. forward in the global competition for innovation and jobs. Mr. Obama says he wants the private sector to get involved in making it happen.

Posted: 3:08 PM I think we’ve all said this at one time or another, “I wish I knew then what I know now.” I ran across a powerful video the other day. It’s from a father diagnosed with terminal cancer. He decided to write a letter to his younger self. You can watch it here.

Updated: 5:24 PM White House Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske will be my guest on Issues & Answers: The Mountain Edition Monday, February 28. What would you like to ask our nation’s Drug Czar? You can submit your questions now.

Updated: 1:37 PM 5th District Congressman Hal Rogers is strongly urging Florida’s Governor to back off from a proposal to cancel a proposed prescription drug monitoring system. In a letter to Governor Scott, Rogers said he was "alarmed and dismayed."

Updated: 11:46 AM Republicans continue to call for much deeper cuts in President Barack Obama’s proposed budget. Earlier this week Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Democrats were lining up “behind the President’s timid proposal for a partial spending freeze.”

Posted: 7:23 PM With a March 4 deadline looming, House Republicans and President Barack Obama are locked in a bitter budget battle.

Posted: 5:35 PM Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential presidential candidate, will be in Kentucky this week to meet with a group of coal operators who have a history of digging deep to help bankroll politicians friendly to the mining industry.

Updated: 10:15 AM Kentucky’s coal industry takes a severe hit in President Barack Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget proposal. The President’s budget eliminates various tax breaks to oil, gas and coal companies and does not seek any new funding for clean coal technology.

Posted: 10:42 AM Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the president's investment plans missed the simple point that "we don't have the money" to finance Obama's vision of "trains and windmills" in the future.

Updated: 10:32 AM President Barack Obama's proposed $3.7 trillion budget plan would freeze or reduce some programs for the nation's poor. The President says it contains "tough choices and sacrifices." Republican critics say the budget doesn't do enough to take on the deficit.

Posted: 9:09 AM In case you missed it, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul delivered a speech at last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. You can watch his speech here.

Posted: 4:19 PM Republicans are accusing President Barack Obama of paying lip service to job creation.

Posted: 4:10 PM President Barack Obama is comparing his fiscal choices to kitchen table budgeting.

Posted: 6:25 PM West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin recently gave his first speech on the Senate floor. The freshman Democrat made good on his pledge to try to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency.

Updated: 5:30 PM The Kentucky Democratic Party is having some fun at the expense of Senate President David Williams.