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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. Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

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. Read more »

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… Read more »

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… Read more »

Arkansas Congressman French Hill panned the President’s foreign policy decisions in a speech Tuesday but departed - to a degree - from some of his Republican colleagues on the Iran nuclear deal. Like the rest of Arkansas’s all-Republican delegation Hill criticized the inspection regime and Iran’s associations with militant groups. He also re-iterated his position that… Read more »

U.S. Rep. French Hill said Tuesday that the Iran nuclear agreement negotiated by President Barack Obama's administration and five other nations delays Iran's nuclear program, "but in no way ends it." Click here to read more. Read more »

Members of Arkansas' congressional delegation have announced $8.5 million in Federal Aviation Administration grants to improve airports throughout the state. U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton, and U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman said in a statement Monday that 13 airports will receive the grants. The grants will go toward extending taxiways,… Read more »