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The Homebuyers Assistance Act, H.R. 3192, which passed the House in October by a vote of 303-121, failed to make it into the year-end spending bill that was announced late Tuesday. In order to move the bill along, at the beginning of December, Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., and 21 other members of Congress sent a letter to Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, urging them to add the provisions of H.R. 3192, the Homebuyers Assistance Act, to any year-end spending legislation... Read more »

Hill lauds retiring ASU-Beebe leader... Read more »

Conservative Review isn't just giving failing marks to U.S. Sen. John Boozman. The website also gave F's to all four members of the Arkansas delegation in the U.S. House... Read more »

WASHINGTON -- All six members of the Arkansas congressional delegation met Thursday morning with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and expressed concerns about plans for a high-power energy line that would cut across Arkansas. Read more »

Arkansas’ congressional delegation met with Energy Department (DOE) Secretary Ernest Moniz on Thursday (Dec. 10) but came away from the meeting without any feedback on how federal officials may decide on the controversial $2 billion Clean Line project... Read more »

Annie Abrams is old enough to remember when schools were segregated and blacks were required to sit at the back of the bus.... Read more »

WASHINGTON -- The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to tighten controls on travel to the U.S. and require visas for anyone who's been in Iraq or Syria in the previous five years.... Read more »

President Barack Obama provided few specifics on how the battle against ISIS must be won, members of the state’s Congressional Delegation said Sunday night... Read more »

Last week, lawmakers spent much of their time debating and voting on a five-year highway funding bill totaling more than $300 billion. But they also found time for various other activities. Read more »

The House and Senate on Thursday approved and sent to the president a five-year funding bill for the nation’s transportation infrastructure that also would revive the Export-Import Bank. Read more »