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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – At 1:00 PM CT on Monday, October 17, 2016, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) will speak at the dedication ceremony for the Harold George Bennett Post Office Building in Perryville, Arkansas. The ceremony will take place at Perryville High School, 614 South Fourche Ave., Perryville, AR 72126  In June of 2015, Congressman Hill and Senator John Boozman (AR)… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement after the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) structure is unconstitutional: “I have said the CFPB is the single most powerful and least accountable agency in Washington—with a director that can only be fired for “inefficiency, neglect of duty,… Read more »

River silt and road erosion seem unlikely topics for a luncheon at the Country Club of Little Rock, but The Nature Conservancy likes to celebrate its environmental successes in style. The Sept. 30 gathering took place the day after the The Nature Conservancy and BHP Billiton -- a multinational mining, metals and petroleum company headquartered in Melbourne, Australia -- announced the… Read more »

U.S. Rep. French Hill gave his latest Golden Fleece Award to the National Institutes of Health, challenging its decision to spend money studying drunken college students' eating habits. In a letter to the agency's director, Dr. Francis S. Collins, Hill questioned the decision to spend $50,000 on the study. "Other studies have also raised concerns, such as the $1.5 million… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Congressman French Hill (AR-02) will host his second Veterans History Project Workshop at 1501 N University Ave, Little Rock, AR 72207 at 9:00 AM CT on Saturday, October 8, 2016. The Library of Congress launched the Veterans History Project in 2000 to collect the stories of America’s veterans. The workshop will train volunteers to interview veterans and… Read more »

Hill admonishes Wells Fargo CEO U.S. Rep. French Hill told Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf that he was surprised and disappointed by news of the company's 2 million fake accounts, created by employees under pressure to meet sales goals. "I've been a customer of your company, and I've admired your company and I've used your company as an example for my own businesses in… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) and 85 other House Republicans wrote to Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker urging her to reconsider the administration’s decision to relinquish America’s authority in promoting free speech and open discourse on the Internet. The Department of Commerce recently issued an assurance that the United States will not lose control… Read more »

Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is back in Washington's hot seat Thursday -- but this time, he's testifying in front of the House Financial Services Committee. Stumpf's opening testimony was largely similar to that which he gave to the Senate banking committee last week, though he came prepared with two new pieces of penance: the clawback of $41 million of his unvested equity awards,… Read more »

John Stumpf walked into a firing line Thursday when he appeared before lawmakers who were furious over revelations that Wells Fargo & Co. may have opened 2 million customer accounts that were fictitious or unauthorized. Attacks from members of the House Financial Services Committee ranged from implying that he sold shares in 2013 because he knew the scandal would tank the stock to… Read more »

Averting an election-year crisis, Congress late Wednesday sent President Barack Obama a bill to keep the government operating through Dec. 9 and provide $1.1 billion in long-delayed funding to battle the Zika virus. Read more »