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Equity crowdfunding, created by the JOBS Act in 2012, will finally become legal on May 16th. The tax code, however, makes it almost impossible for millions of small businesses to use equity crowdfunding to raise growth capital. The tax law needs to be amended to eliminate this impediment to small firm capital formation... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. House on Monday approved a resolution to rename the post office in Perryville after an Arkansan who was the first American prisoner of war killed in the Vietnam War... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. House on Monday approved a resolution to rename the post office in Perryville after an Arkansan who was the first American prisoner of war killed in the Vietnam War... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - U.S. Rep. French Hill says the U.S. House has passed a resolution to rename the post office in Perryville after an Arkansas native who was killed in the Vietnam War... Read more »

The House of Representatives approved bipartisan legislation on Thursday introduced by U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) to bring transparency to the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC)... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — Ray Thornton of Little Rock, a former educator, lawyer, attorney general, congressman, university president, Arkansas Supreme Court justice and state Lottery Commission chairman, died Wednesday morning at age 87... Read more »

Second District U.S. Rep. French Hill and other congressmen traveled earlier this month to the former Soviet Union, stopping in one of its former satellite states... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — A Purple Heart ceremony held at the state Capitol on Friday took just one phone call to arrange, but the actual ceremony came only after 10 years of frustration with military bureaucracy and 20 years after the recipient had died... Read more »

Rep. French Hill met with Faulkner County Farm Bureau President Chris Schaefers of Conway, Arkansas Farm Bureau State Women’s Committee member Donna Bemis of Little Rock, Pulaski County Farm Bureau board member Debbie Moreland of Roland and Conway County Farm Bureau board member Tommy Thompson of Morrilton on April 30 during Farm Bureau’s first Farm Policy Summit in Little Rock... Read more »

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… Read more »