Arkansans urge U.S to back disaster aid Arkansas' congressional delegation on Thursday asked the federal government to support a disaster-declaration request for 12 counties hit the hardest by up to two weeks of steady rainfall in August. Click here to read more.
Read more
Arkansas' congressional delegation on Thursday asked the federal government to support a disaster-declaration request for 12 counties hit the hardest by up to two weeks of steady rainfall in August. Gov. Asa Hutchinson recently asked for the disaster aid. U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton and U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman asked U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to approve the request. The Arkansas House and Senate committees on agriculture, ...
Read more
Arkansas lawmakers urged U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to support Governor Asa Hutchinson's request for major disaster declaration for Arkansas. U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton and Congressman Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman urged the Secretary Visack for disaster assistance regarding flooding doing damage to farms in Arkansas counties. The counties that Governor Hutchinson requested disaster assistance for are Carroll, Clay, Craighea...
Read more
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansas’ congressional delegation on Thursday urged U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to support Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s request for a disaster declaration for 12 northeastern Arkansas counties affected by recent flooding. Hutchinson told Vilsack in a letter dated Sept. 16 he was seeking a federal disaster declaration for Carroll, Clay, Craighead, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Lincoln, Madison, Prairie, Randolph, White and Woodruff counties. The governor said i...
Read more
AAF at 12:30 has an event focused on FSOC’s designation of companies as SIFIs. Speakers include Rep. Blaine Luetkeymeyer and Rep. French Hill, and a panel discussion with Dr. Scott Harrington, Dr. Martin Baily, and Dr. Mark Calabria. RSVP
Read more
So this is how the United States of America treats its best and bravest: First by cutting off their pensions--without warning--and then by dunning them repeatedly. As if they were trying to get out of paying their just debts instead of clearing them up. Their nice case full of medals only gathers dust as these vets try to cut through the mountain of paperwork the bureaucrats have produced for their special torment. Click here to read more.
Read more
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi met on Monday a number of world leaders, US politicians and former officials in New York during the 71st United Nations General Assembly meeting. El-Sisi met UN-secretary general Ban Ki-Moon in New York where they discussed the latest regional developments, the Egyptian presidency said. According to an Egyptian presidential statement, El-Sisi and Ki-Moon discussed the latest developments concerning the peace process in the Middle East between the Palestinia...
Read more
Rep. French Hill (R., AR) on the Choice Act, the Republican replacement for the Dodd Frank law. Photo credit: Getty Images. Watch video here.
Read more
U.S. Rep. French Hill joined the rest of the House members from Arkansas and voted for legislation to prevent the transfer of prisoners out of the military facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Barack Obama has called for the closure of the prison, which holds terrorists and those suspected of terrorism. Lawmakers have blocked funding for any transfers. HR5351 passed in the House by a vote of 244-174. In a written statement, the Little Rock Republican said, "GTMO offers our Nation a safe a...
Read more
World War II veteran Jesse Whitley lived off his monthly pension of about $1,500 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs until that money disappeared without notice several months ago. It was being garnished because of a clerical error, according to records reviewed by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The VA had confused Whitley, 96, of Mabelvale with Jessie Whitley, 68, of Durham, N.C., who the VA said had defaulted on a 20-year-old loan for property in New Jersey. "No notice, no nothing," W...
Read more
