Press Releases

Today, following the State Department’s decision to approve Keystone XL, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) stated: “Keystone XL is a pro-growth, private sector investment into energy infrastructure that has already supported over 600 jobs in central Arkansas and would create thousands of ready-to-launch private sector American jobs, while having a… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The following event on Congressman French Hill’s (AR-02) schedule for Sunday, March 26, 2017, is open to the press: Speech at Arkansas Run for the Fallen 2:00 PM CT Steps of the Arkansas State Capitol Building, 500 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR 72201 Read more »

This week, the House passed the following veterans bills: H.R. 1367, To improve the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to hire and retain physicians and other employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and for other purposes. H.R. 1259, the VA Accountability First Act of 2017. H.R. 1259 would give the VA Secretary increased authority to remove, demote, or suspend… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) joined all twelve other members of the House of Representatives from Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in writing a letter to President Donald Trump asking him to include public and private stakeholders from waterway systems in the president’s discussions and plans to improve our nation’s infrastructure. The twelve… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) awarded the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with its sixth Golden Fleece for missing yet another deadline the ongoing solar panel construction debacle at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock. VA’s continued mismanagement of taxpayer dollars resulted in this month’s version of the… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) and Senator John Boozman (AR) sent a letter to Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary David Shulkin asking him to “swiftly resolve” the ongoing solar panel construction delays at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital in Little Rock. In April of 2015, local news reports uncovered that VA… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) introduced the Return to Work Act of 2017 in the House of Representatives. The bill would reform the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Program by modernizing the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) classification of disability beneficiaries and incentivizing returning to work for beneficiaries who have… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement after the House Passed the FY 2017 Defense Appropriations Bill: “Today’s vote maintains funding as well as active duty and reserve troops at the levels we need in order to carry out strategic missions across the globe and it gives our men and women in uniform a much-deserved 2.1… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order on travel from six countries designated by the Obama Administration as having ties to terror: “The president is justified to place a temporary ban on immigrants from the countries identified by the Obama Administration as countries… Read more »

Today, the House passed H.R. 998, the Searching for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act of 2017. The SCRUB Act calls for a bipartisan commission to identify outdated and unnecessarily burdensome regulations that need to be repealed or modified. After passage of the bill, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement: “Last year,… Read more »