Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) announced that this month’s Golden Fleece recipient is the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) during an interview on First News with Kevin Miller. During the interview, Hill stated, “The IRS’ anti-fraud program [is] a really important part of what the IRS does. Just between 2008 and 2010, they lost $458 billion a year on not capturing fraud. They get the Golden Fleece for [their work on] a fraud program to improve their capture rate that is now over budget by ...
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PHOENIX — Smoke and fire enveloped the afternoon of April 18, 1972. The town of An Lộc in South Vietnam was under siege by the Viet Cong, who had the area surrounded. Hercules C-130s tried dropping supplies to the defenders, but the Viet Cong’s anti-air weaponry often shot at them before they could make the drops. Spc. 4 Leonard "Bruce" Shearer, who now lives in Glendale, was part of a four-man crew manning a Bell UH-1H Iroquois or "Huey" helicopter tasked with reporting enemy troop movements. T...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – On Thursday, May 11, 2017, at 6:00 PM CT, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) will host a reception for the 2017 Educational Award Program (EAP) winners. The event will take place at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock. The EAP was instituted in 2015 by Congressman Hill to recognize one senior and one junior from each high school in the Second Congressional District as nominated by faculty and staff of those schools. The students who receive the award should show significant commitmen...
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The recent Fairfield Bay City Council meeting, while fairly low key, went into several business development issues for the community. The first item, at the Monday, May 8, meeting, was Mayor Paul Wellenberger’s presentation to the body for a boat factory considering moving to Fairfield Bay. The factory, not named in the presentation, would produce both boats and trailers with 35 employees to start. Estimated initial investment into the community to establish the plant, including building on a 7 ...
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Arkansas farmers hit by flooding can expect an expedited disaster declaration, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said recently following a flyover of northeast Arkansas. Perdue, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Sen. John Boozman and U.S. House members Rick Crawford and French Hill, took to the sky recently to get a firsthand look at the damage caused by storms that hit the Mid-South April 27 through 30. All spoke at a news conference held in the Arkansas State Police hangar at the Little Rock airpo...
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Members of Arkansas' all-Republican congressional delegation are stopping short of criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, and none of the state's senators or representatives are so far calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the Trump campaign's possible connections to Russia. Remarks made Wednesday about Comey's firing: ------ Sen. John Boozman: "The work undertaken on a daily basis by the men and women of the FBI is vital to t...
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Perdue, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Sen. John Boozman, and U.S. House members Rick Crawford and French Hill, took to the sky Sunday afternoon to get a first-hand look at the damage caused by storms that hit the Mid-South April 27-30. All spoke at a news conference held in the Arkansas State Police hangar at the Little Rock airport. Arkansas farmers hit by flooding can expect an expedited disaster declaration, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said Sunday following a flyover of northeast Arkans...
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Arkansas farmers hit by flooding can expect an expedited disaster declaration, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue said following a May 7 flyover of northeast Arkansas. Perdue, Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Sen. John Boozman, and U.S. House members Rick Crawford and French Hill, took to the sky to get a first-hand look at the damage caused by storms that hit the Mid-South April 27-30. All spoke at a news conference held in the Arkansas State Police hangar at the Little Rock airport. Hutchinson als...
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ARKANSAS (AP) - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue promised to expedite requests for federal assistance after touring flooded northeast Arkansas with the state's governor and three members of its congressional delegation. Storms that brought flooding and tornadoes to the state are now blamed for nine deaths, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said on May 7, following Saturday's discovery of the bodies of an 18-month-old girl in Madison County and the body of a canoeist from Missouri in the B...
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A letter signed by seven Republican Congressmen lays out their unequivocal support of a petition calling for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to allow hair testing in lieu of urinalysis to meet federal drug testing requirements for commercial truck driver applicants. The signatories, Reps. Rick Crawford; R-AR; Don Bacon, R-NE; Bruce Westerman, R-AR; Martha McSally, R-AZ.; Steve Womack, R-AR; French Hill, R-Ark., and Ted Budd, R-NC, contend that hair testing is “more reliable in id...
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