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WASHINGTON NEWS IN BRIEF: Hill raps Amtrak after audit report ADG 10/6/19 Hill raps Amtrak after audit report U.S. Rep. French Hill has awarded his latest Golden Fleece Award to the National Railroad Passenger Corp., also known as Amtrak. During an audit, the rail company failed to account for maintenance-of-way equipment worth an estimated $4.1 million, the Little Rock… Read more »

This week, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives held a vote on H.R. 9, a bill to prohibit President Trump from pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord. Here is why I voted no on this bill: I recently returned from a meeting in Tokyo where members of Congress and Japanese officials discussed the north Asian security situation, our plans for a… Read more »

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement opposing H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, a bill that would prevent President Trump from withdrawing the United States from the Obama Administration’s expensive commitments under the Paris Climate Accord: “The president pulled the United States out of the Paris Climate Accord because the… Read more »

WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released a video celebrating a legislative provision of his being signed into law that directs the U.S. Forest Service to study additional existing U.S. forest lands located in Perry County and adjacent to the Flatside Wilderness. The purpose of this study is to determine their suitability for inclusion in the National Wilderness… Read more »

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

U.S. Senator John Boozman, Senator Tom Cotton, Congressman Rick Crawford, Congressman French Hill, Congressman Steve Womack, and Congressman Bruce Westerman issued the following statement in response to an announcement by the Department of Energy (DOE) to use Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109–58) to partner with Clean Line Energy in an energy transmission project across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee... Read more »

WASHINGTON -- All six members of the Arkansas congressional delegation met Thursday morning with U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and expressed concerns about plans for a high-power energy line that would cut across Arkansas. Read more »

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 »