Foreign Affairs

Congressman French Hill (AR-02) issued the following statement after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi participated in this Saturday’s Orthodox Christmas Mass: “Many of us in the Congress were pleased to see Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi join Coptic Pope Tawadros II in participating in Saturday’s Orthodox Christmas Mass at the recently opened Nativity of Christ Cathedral… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (R-AR), along with Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI), Dave Trott (R-MI), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), introduced a resolution expressing concern over attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt. “I had the opportunity to travel to Egypt earlier… Read more »

Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee Ranking Member Ted Deutch (FL-22), Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01), and Congressman French Hill (AR-02) led 71 of their House colleagues in asking Vice President Mike Pence to hold the Egyptian government accountable for systemic human… Read more »

A congressman from northeast Arkansas will reintroduce legislation to ease trade restrictions with Cuba, and says he's hopeful that barriers to agricultural sales will be addressed early in 2017. But there's plenty of uncertainty after the Nov. 8 presidential election and the Nov. 25 death of Fidel Castro, the 90-year-old former Cuban president. To read more, click here.  Read more »

A few weeks ago I showed that the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal had rejected, in July 2011, reconsideration of the 1981 claim by Iran for compensation from aircraft not delivered ($2.2 billion was the total stated then). I have been unable to find any record of it being considered again. Yet Secretary Kerry found that it was necessary to pay the terrorist-sponsoring regime in… Read more »

All four members of Arkansas' House delegation backed legislation Thursday making it harder for aliens from Iraq or Syria to be admitted into the United States as refugees. And U.S. Sen. John Boozman is predicting that the Senate will pass the same or similar legislation and send it to the president's desk. Second District U.S. Rep. French Hill of Little Rock, 3rd District U.S. Rep.… Read more »

The White House stated its case Thursday for passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying the trade agreement would increase U.S. exports, lower foreign tariffs and open 11 overseas countries to more American goods and products. That message was echoed by officials from Wal-Mart and Tyson, two companies that do business across the Pacific. Click here to read more. Read more »

With just hours to spare before federal funding expired, Congress last week approved a stopgap measure to keep agencies open for another 10 weeks as they negotiate a budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The continuing resolution, which cleared the Senate and House, would basically maintain current funding levels through Dec. 11. It includes about $196 billion to fund the… Read more »

President Barack Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran appeared likely to remain intact following historic votes in Congress last week.Democrats supportive of the president blocked a Republican effort in the Senate to disapprove the deal. The key vote was a procedural one in which GOP leaders failed to get 60 votes to move forward with a resolution against the agreement.Senate… Read more »

Arkansas Congressman French Hill panned the President’s foreign policy decisions in a speech Tuesday but departed - to a degree - from some of his Republican colleagues on the Iran nuclear deal. Like the rest of Arkansas’s all-Republican delegation Hill criticized the inspection regime and Iran’s associations with militant groups. He also re-iterated his position that… Read more »