BENTONVILLE -- Sen. Tom Cotton of Dardanelle toured the Heartland Whole Health Institute on Thursday, at a time when federal medical research funding faces cutbacks and the need for approval for federal spending of all kinds looms in September.

Current spending authorization expires Sept. 30, with a new federal fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. U.S. Rep. Steve Womack of Rogers has said the chances of a spending impasse and a resulting federal shutdown are as high as they have been since he was elected to Congress in 2010.

"Some research funding that was paused has resumed, and that's a result in part of the Senate working with the administration," Cotton said Thursday. "Some funds that were cut were I think appropriately cut. The president announced recently he would cut funding for diversit

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