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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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

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... Read more »

WASHINGTON – Legislation to block states from enacting their own labeling laws for genetically modified foods failed to advance in the Senate last week... Read more »

Arkansas' two U.S. senators said Wednesday that they won't consider President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee, maintaining that the seat should remain vacant until a new president is elected... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The VA Medical Center in Little Rock manipulated wait times to hide long delays for veterans who had appointments scheduled with the hospital, according to a report from the VA Office of Inspector General... Read more »