IRAN VOTE A pair of votes Thursday on the Iran deal had the approval of the state’s two United States Senators, but was a few votes shy of approval. Senators voted 56-42 on a bill against a nuclear deal with Iran; and 53-45 on a bill to “prohibit the President from waiving, suspending, reducing, providing relief from, or otherwise limiting the application of sanctions pursuant to an agreement related to the nuclear program of Iran.” Sens. John Boozman, R-Ark. and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., voted yes on...
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LITTLE ROCK — A bill to block federal funding for Planned Parenthood for one year passed in the U.S. House on Friday with the support of all four members from Arkansas. The bill, which is not expected to clear the Senate, passed in a 241-187 vote, with nearly all the votes for the bill coming from Republicans and nearly all the votes against it coming from Democrats. The bill is aimed at giving Congress time to investigate claims that the organization harvests organs from aborted fetuses and sel...
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A divided House voted Friday to block Planned Parenthood's federal funds for a year, as Republican leaders tried to keep GOP opposition to abortion from spiraling into an impasse with President Barack Obama and causing a government shutdown. Click here to read more.
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Arkansas' congressional delegation on Tuesday asked U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to examine whether the federal government or the state should get final say on plans to build a wind-power transmission line across Arkansas. Click here to read more.
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Just over a week after the Department of Energy (DOE) staff provided an update on the status of the controversial Plains & Eastern Clean Line Transmission development, Arkansas’ congressional delegation fired off a letter Tuesday (Sept. 15) to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz asking him to address state’s rights concern over the DOE’s oversight of multi-state, renewable energy project. The letter, signed by U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, French Hill, S...
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The Department of Energy’s use of eminent domain with a private third-party company to construct an interstate electrical power line has been opposed by the entire Arkansas congressional delegation on the grounds of state’s rights and private property rights. In a nine-page letter to Department of Energy Ernest Moniz on Monday, Arkansas’ two senators and four congressmen state Section 1222 in the 2005 Energy Policy Act should not apply to based Clean Line Energy’s proposal to build a 700-mile hi...
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President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran appeared likely to remain intact following historic votes in Congress last week.Democrats supportive of the president blocked a Republican effort in the Senate to disapprove the deal. The key vote was a procedural one in which GOP leaders failed to get 60 votes to move forward with a resolution against the agreement.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he would schedule another vote in the coming week in an attempt to break the ...
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On Wednesday, former prisoner of war James "Leon" Gray, 90, of Malvern finally got to visit the national memorial recognizing those who fought in World War II. Click here to read more.
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With the 14th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks as a backdrop, the House voted Friday to disapprove a plan that opponents said will give Iran the power to create a nuclear bomb and finance terrorism. The House voted 269-162 against House Resolution 3461. The bill would have approved the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, signed by the United States and other countries on July 14. All four members of Arkansas’ U.S. House delegation – Reps. Rick Crawford, R-Jonesboro, French Hill, R-Little Rock, St...
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Arkansas’s congressional delegation is returning to Washington D.C. this week after a late-summer recess and halting federal funds to Planned Parenthood is a priority. Central Arkansas’s U.S. Representative French Hill wants a moratorium on funding while an investigation is launched. But the freshman Republican isn’t yet drawing a hard line in the sand over the looming funding battle. KAUFFMAN: One of the looming topics that has built in momentum during this break is the Planned Parenthood video...
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