Posted October 17, 2017 09:43 am BySteve Brawner | Columnist American citizens in Puerto Rico are suffering, but unlike when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the victims can’t drive across the border to a welcoming state like Arkansas. Texans, Floridians and others are hurting from hurricanes, too, and Californians have lost their homes due to wildfires. In such situations, should members of Congress vote for any aid package, even if they think it’s a bad one? Rep. French Hill, R-Arkansas, ...
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by Rep. French Hill | Sep 28, 2017, 8:00 AM North Korea is pressing forward with their three-decade goal of building a stockpile of nuclear weapons that threaten the United States and north Asia. With the safety of the U.S. and our allies at stake, we will not stand by and let the region fall into chaos. That is why we as a nation and as a global community are taking decisive action that has been absent for decades. First, how did we get here? In the 1990s, President Bill Clinton agreed to a "fr...
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Arkansas Democrat Gazette By: Frank Lockwood Little Rock Central High bill clears U.S. House; historic site’s expansion heads to Senate after 390-0 vote The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday evening to expand the boundaries of the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, pausing for 20 minutes to highlight the significance of the 1957 desegregation struggle. Under the legislation, seven South Park Street houses sitting on roughly 1.5 acres would be placed within the boun...
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The Huffington Post The Time I went Canoeing With A Republican Congressman By: Emily Kearns My husband calls me an unlikely environmentalist. He says when he pictures what an environmentalist looks like, I’m not it. In his head, environmentalists are all Californian, granola-crunching hippie types who tie themselves to trees. Why is that? And no offense to those who do, but I freely admit that I don’t fit that bill. Sometimes people are surprised when they meet me in person. With my cocoa-colore...
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Rep. French Hill, a member of the House Committee on Financial Services and a Republican from Arkansas, talks about the main topics he intends to discuss during today's testimony by Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas." (Source: Bloomberg)
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill last week to reauthorize the Federal Perkins Loan financial aid program for college students. While the program is set to expire at the end of September 2017, the bill, Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 2353), would extend it for another two years. Sponsored by Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA), the bill was approved in the House by voice vote. “I hear from employers in Arkansas regularly about the issues they hav...
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President Trump is not interested in the threat Russia poses to our elections, going by anything he says on the subject. After being briefed for nearly a year now on unanimous intelligence reports regarding Russia’s assault on the 2016 campaign, Trump remains dismissive. “If [Russian President Vladimir] Putin adamantly denies that he did it, it’s frankly not an issue to the president,” Sam Nunberg, who worked for Trump’s campaign, told the New York Times this weekend. Indeed, the Trump administr...
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U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, along with Congressmen Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman announced Monday that 11 Arkansas airports will receive $5.5 million from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to support facility upgrades and expansions. "These investments will strengthen infrastructure in Arkansas. Local airports are valuable assets for communities across the state. This critical funding will provide our airports with the resources they need to ...
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Michael Siegel, U.S. Rep. French Hill's communications director, is leaving after more than six years on Capitol Hill. Caroline Thorman, deputy communications director to U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., has been hired to replace him. Siegel was one of Hill's early hires and joined the Little Rock congressman's office early in 2015. Before that, he worked for the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. Starting next month, he'll be going to work at W.S. Jenks & Son, his family's hardware store. I...
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LITTLE ROCK -- Two educators from the Lake Hamilton School District celebrated the success of engaging students in community action Tuesday during a presentation to the Arkansas Declaration of Learning Year Two Celebration. Library media specialist Jil'Lana Heard and Rachael Walston, content literacy facilitator for grades 4-12, shared information about their project, "America: Land of the Free. Home of the Equal?" developed this school year for students at Lake Hamilton Junior High. They were t...
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