U.S. Senators John Boozman and Tom Cotton, along with Congressmen Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman today announced 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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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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Today, the House passed H.R. 2353, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act. The bill would reauthorize the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act for the first time in more than ten years, empower state and local leaders, modernize career and technical education (CTE) programs for today’s jobs, and help students throughout the country obtain the skills needed to find long-term, meaningful employment. Following passage of the bill, the Co-Chairs of t...
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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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U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Little Rock, has had time to reflect on the shootings that targeted Republican Congressional members last week, but he’s cautious on going too far, too fast on changes to security. Hill, who appeared on this week’s edition of Talk Business & Politics, said that U.S. Capitol police may need to re-think gatherings of elected officials, but individual members need to rely on local law enforcement, if needed. “Generally, I think that when people are working in their district...
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FAYETTEVILLE -- The U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs toured a Fayetteville bright spot in his beleaguered department Monday, on his way to meet with Wal-Mart leaders on how to improve his agency's logistics. David Shulkin, Veterans Affairs secretary, visited the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks hospital and grounds in Fayetteville at the invitation of Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark. President Donald Trump picked Shulkin, with the near-unanimous support of Democrats and Republicans in Congre...
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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin in early June pronounced the American veterans health care system to be in “critical condition.” One northwest Arkansas VA hospital, however, appears to be thriving, and that prompted U.S. Rep. Steve Womack (R-3rd District) to invite Shulkin to take a look. After an early morning tour of the Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks in Fayetteville Monday, Shulkin, at a press conference on the grounds, characterized the forested campus facility as...
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Weekly column written for Gov. Asa Hutchinson: I want to share a computer-coding news scoop about a pair of 13-year-old football playing Arkansans who built a device that has the potential to save the life of dozens of children around the country. Mason Covington’s and Tyler Duke’s invention was among 10 finalists out of 5,000 entries in the 2017 Samsung Solve competition, and the U.S. Patent Office has granted them a patent. While they were in Washington to demonstrate their new idea to Samsung...
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