At 10:30 AM CT, on Monday, December 14, 2015, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) will host a press conference at the Historic Saline River Bridge. Last week, Saline County was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Arkansas State Department of Highway and Transportation Department (AHTD) through the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP), a federal-aid program that assists in constructing non-motorized forms of transportation. Funds from TAP will be used for the rehabilitation of the historic Saline...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2), alongside eleven other Members of Congress, sent a letter to Carolyn Colvin, Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), requesting that SSA work with Congress to develop innovative demonstration projects to help individuals with disabilities return to work. The members stated: “The recently passed and signed into law Bipartisan Budget Act provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) with the authority to develop and implement addi...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) attended the 150th Anniversary Celebration of the ratification of the 13th Amendment with his invited guest, Ms. Annie Abrams of Little Rock. Following the ceremony, Congressman Hill released the below statement: “There are very few people who have as deep an appreciation for American History—particularly as it relates to African-Americans—as my friend of nearly two decades, Ms. Annie Abrams. As a local educator and civic and community leader, Ms. Abrams has...
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 158, the Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act of 2015, by a bipartisan vote of 407-19. H.R. 158, introduced by Rep. Candice Miller (MI-10)...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) announced the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the November recipient for the Golden Fleece Award for their award of $142 million in bonuses to VA employees and the decision to allow two VA officials that manipulated the agency’s employee relocation program to keep the funds they received from defrauding hardworking taxpayers. This is VA’s second Golden Fleece award—they also won for the failed solar panel project at the Little Rock VA Medical Cen...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) released the following statement after President Obama’s address to the Nation from the Oval Office: “Tonight’s address by the President shows he has come a long way from his days of believing that ISIS is a ‘JV team.’ Unfortunately, in the two years since the President initially downplayed the threat of ISIS, they have only grown stronger and shown they are capable of carrying out devastating attacks all over the globe. While the President is finally admitt...
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Today, on the two month anniversary of the implementation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure (TRID) Rule, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) and 21 other Members of Congress...
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the House-Senate agreed Conference Report to H.R. 22, the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) introduced H.R. 4086, the Security Verification for Refugees Act, a bill that would expand the vetting process proposed under H.R. 4038, the American Security Against Foreign Enemies (SAFE) Act of 2015. In H.R. 4038, the term “covered alien” only includes refugees from Syria and Iraq. H.R. 4086 would redefine the term “covered alien” to include anyone seeking asylum in America from a country that is designated as a high-risk threat to the United States by th...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-2) announced that Jill Cox of Little Rock has been promoted to District Director. Cox, a native of Batesville, Arkansas, has been Congressman Hill’s Deputy District Director since January, and spent the previous four years working for now-retired Congressman Tim Griffin as Federal Grants Director before being promoted to Deputy District Director in 2014. Following the announcement, Congressman Hill released the below statement: “Constituent services are a respo...
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