POLITICO Playbook: Pelosi to deliver impeachment update at 9 a.m.
12/5/2019
POLITICO
NEWS … Speaker NANCY PELOSI will speak at 9 a.m. to deliver an update on the “status of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry.” Pelosi will speak in the Speaker’s Balcony Hallway, a long, narrow space outside her office.
THIS COMES as House Democrats on the Judiciary Committee have… Read more »
MIL-OSI USA: Rep. Hill Delivers Speech at University of Arkansas’s Fulbright College: “America and Her Place in a Post-Berlin Wall World”
12/4/2019
ForeignAffairs.nz
WASHINGTON D.C. — On Monday, November 25th, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) visited the University of Arkansas, touring the Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering and the Center for Advanced Spatial Technology… Read more »
Anti-robocall bill co-sponsored by Rep. French Hill overwhelmingly passes House
12/4/2019
THV11
The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act (TRACED) was passed by the House Wednesday, Dec. 4, by a vote of 413-3, making the passage overwhelmingly bipartisan.
Robocalls have been an increasing frustration for many Arkansans with almost everyone encountering… Read more »
Digital Currency Revolution Series: ‘Crypto Dad’ Now With New York-Based Law Firm, Entrusted For Crypto and Blockchain Innovation
12/3/2019
EconoTimes
The former United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman Chris Giancarlo, who is also known as "Crypto Dad," is now all set to work with New York-based law firm ‘Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a senior… Read more »
US Federal Reserve Likely To Float Digital Dollar To Stay At Par With China
11/29/2019
Kryptomoney
The worldwide blockchain industry worldwide is seeing enough significant attention, for pretty much anyone to assume that things are looking good. There are many corporate bodies and government agencies alike all over the world, that are looking to implement some form of blockchain… Read more »
Lawmakers working to crack down on disinformation targeting veterans
11/28/2019
Fox5 Washington D.C.
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are working to combat foreign trolls targeting veterans and military personnel online with disinformation.
A report published by Vietnam Veterans of America found that the Russian Internet Research Agency bought more than 100 ads targeting followers of… Read more »
US Fed Weighs Up Potential CBDC as Countermove against China
11/28/2019
CoinTelegraph
Where just a handful of years ago, the idea would have been immediately dismissed or even met with ridicule, the United States Federal Reserve is now taking the concept of an official dollar stablecoin seriously.
Markets have heard more frequent guidance from the Fed on cryptocurrencies in… Read more »
Hill talks of U.S.' role since World War II
11/26/2019
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
FAYETTEVILLE -- The United States can't continue to be the "one-man show" it was in the aftermath of World War II, U.S. Rep. French Hill told students, faculty members and administrators at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville on Monday.
For 70 years, the United States has borne an outsize… Read more »
Health care notebook
11/26/2019
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Osteopathic college starts Delta project
The New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine-Arkansas has launched a program dedicated to improving health outcomes in the state's Delta region.
The Delta Population Health Institute will administer rural health initiatives, operate a mobile health unit,… Read more »
Mayflower uses funds from disaster relief to build new city center
11/26/2019
THV11
MAYFLOWER, Arkansas — A city that has been forced to tear down buildings after three catastrophes in six years got to put up a new building for the entire community as Mayflower cut the ribbon on a new city center.
"We've been through so many things in the past few years," said Mayflower Mayor… Read more »
