While side one, Congress Republicans, is busy spreading their message against the current structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, their adversary is busy doing the same. The battle over the future of the bureau has spurred representatives, such as Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., and Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., to recently pen commentaries for their local publications on the need for the agency to be reined in. But people in support of the CFPB aren’t simply going to sit around quietly. Davi...
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Senator Tom Cotton (AR) and Congressman French Hill (AR-02) today announced they will hold a town hall event at 2:00 PM CT on Monday, April 17, 2017, at the Embassy Suites in Little Rock. Doors will open for the event at 1:30 PM CT. The following event is open to the press: Who: Congressman French Hill and Senator Tom Cotton What: Town Hall When: 2:00 PM CT to 3:00 PM CT, Monday, April 17, 2017 Where: Embassy Suites, 11301 Financial Centre Pkwy, Little Rock, AR 72211 Members of the media who wi...
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Part of what inspired me to create the Community Empowerment Initiative was the observation that longstanding federal policy toward ending poverty yielded—at best—the most marginal of improvements. Here in Washington, far too often we focus our attention and resources on the funding levels of federal programs rather than on their effect on the people that we serve. And while these programs provide a useful and often essential service to those most in need, in President Lyndon Johnson’s fifty-th...
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Wall Street pension management companies are protesting a decision by agency officials to preserve a 2016 regulation which supporters say will protect retirees’ savings from self-serving sales managers. On February 3, President Donald Trump directed officials at the Department of Labor to review the regulation “to determine whether it may adversely affect the ability of Americans to gain access to retirement information and financial advice.” advertisement But officials postponed the review unti...
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As the controversy around the embattled Consumer Financial Protection Bureau heightens, more representatives are stepping outside of the beltway to tell their constituents their opinions on the constitutionality of the bureau. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., recently penned a commentary for his local publication, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, on the need for the agency to be reined in. Hill begins by stating, “In Washington, accountability has gone from a focal point of governance to a relative afterthou...
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Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement after the ISIS attacks in Egypt: "Earlier this year, I visited St. Peter and St. Paul’s Coptic Church in Egypt. Just two months prior to my visit, an ISIS jihadist suicide bomber disguised as a woman entered the church and murdered 25 innocent people. Today, Egypt's Coptic Christians again were attacked by ISIS jihadists. These cowardly acts perpetrated by ISIS in the churches of our allies in Egypt can't be overlooked, and...
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If the U.S. Senate has its way, a 90-year-old steamboat will soon be able to return to the Mississippi River. Lawmakers voted 85-12 Monday to approve legislation that would exempt the Delta Queen from federal safety regulations that had forced it into retirement. U.S. Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton, both Arkansas Republicans, were co-sponsors of the bill. Boozman said Monday that the vote was "long overdue." "Allowing the iconic Delta Queen to operate again will promote job creation and allow...
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It was a bad idea for the United States to draw a red line in Syria, show it to the world and then fail to take action once the line had been crossed, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark and an Arkansas lawmaker said Friday. "I'm against red lines, drawing red lines in principle. In my experience, in my study of foreign policy, I haven't seen the red lines to be useful when publicly disclosed," Clark said in a telephone interview. At an August 2012 White House news conference, Pres...
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Arkansas’s all-Republican congressional delegation is showing support for President Trump’s air strikes in Syria. U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, in a statement released late Thursday night, said he commends the president for “taking swift, decisive action” against an “outlaw regime.” The state's senior U.S. Senator John Boozman said "Limited, swift and decisive action was required to deter further brutality." Boozman also cautioned against further military action from the executive branch. "Moving for...
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The Federal Communications Commission, which is looking for ways to increase high-speed Internet access, selected a Little Rock high-tech entrepreneur to serve on its new Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee. Elizabeth Bowles, the president and chairman of the board of Aristotle Inc., was named to the committee Thursday. Aristotle, which describes itself as a "full-service digital agency and broadband Internet Service Provider," offers wireless Internet services in central Arkansas and plans ...
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