Here is something no one wants to hear during one of the slowest periods of economic growth since the Second World War: businesses in Arkansas and across the country are set to be hit with an aggressive 113 percent increase in the salary threshold for overtime pay. While the president touts this extension of overtime pay for salaried workers making up to $50,440 (current threshold is $23,660 annually) as a victory for the middle class in America, the rhetoric does not match the reality, and unle...
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U.S. Senator John Boozman, Senator Tom Cotton, Congressman Rick Crawford, Congressman French Hill, Congressman Steve Womack, and Congressman Bruce Westerman issued the following statement in response to an announcement by the Department of Energy (DOE) to use Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109–58) to partner with Clean Line Energy in an energy transmission project across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee...
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Darci Vetter, one of the Obama administration’s key negotiators for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, is making her case in Arkansas for the necessity of getting congressional approval of the controversial trade pact by the end of 2016...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AFB) - Arkansas Farm Bureau will host a Farm Policy Summit, where it will bring its farmers and ranchers along with national farm policy leaders – in addition to each member of the state's Congressional delegation – to Little Rock to discuss the mounting challenges facing the agriculture economy...
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U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford’s 1st District in eastern Arkansas is home to half the nation’s rice acres. Cuba imports 400,000 tons of rice a year, mostly from Vietnam. So yeah, he’s for opening up trade to Cuba...
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. House approved a partisan bill last week that Republicans claim would help guarantee fairness in the government’s review of business mergers while Democrats warn it would gut an independent process that protects competition and consumers...
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U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., accompanied by several friends and acquaintances, spent much of Saturday in an Arkansas forest logging miles 13 through 18 of a planned 100-mile journey across national parks this year...
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A nearly 700-mile long energy project got approval from the U.S. Department of Energy on Friday (March 25) with House and Senate lawmakers condemning the approval...
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U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said there is a need to fix holes in allied counter-terrorism strategies after deadly terrorist attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, while other Arkansas legislators expressed support on social media...
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