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LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Little Rock Port Authority has been given more than $6 million as part of a Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant. The TIGER grant will be used for the Little Rock Port Authority Growth Initiative for improvements, including a new dock and a new rail storage. Congressman French Hill (AR-2) and Little Rock Mayor Mark… Read more »

U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., joined the Little Rock Port Authority on Monday to mark a $6.2 million federal grant to make improvements to Slackwater Harbor, including a new dock with direct dock-to-rail capability and new rail storage. The project will cost $10 million and be completed in about two years, around the time of the port's 60th anniversary, Port Authority Executive… Read more »

The Port of Little Rock will be undergoing a $6.1 million expansion enabling it to more easily move freight between river barges and trains. The project will be funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, which Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola says will greatly expand the port's economic impact. "It's going to provide a new infrastructure for an… Read more »

U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman last week promoted a series of proposals put forth by House Republicans. The six-point plan calls for fighting poverty, improving the economy, changing tax law, overhauling health care, strengthening national security and tackling what Republicans portray as government overreach. Click here to read the entire story.  Read more »

There were more than 35 startup banks in Arkansas from 1995 to 2008, but no one has the desire to start a new bank now, the commissioner of the Arkansas Bank Department said Thursday. "I don't know that there has been that much interest from investors" about starting a new bank, said Candace Franks, commissioner of the department. There has been an increase in regulatory… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Congressman French Hill (AR-02) will host his sixth Community Empowerment Initiative roundtable discussion in Little Rock on Monday, August 15, 2016. The Community Empowerment Initiative was created by Congressman Hill last year as a way to hear ideas from community leaders who are involved with successful upward mobility programs. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan… Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Congressman French Hill (AR-02) will join representatives from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) and Habitat for Humanity of Central Arkansas for a “wall-raising” event and check presentation at 8:15 a.m. Friday, August 12 at 29 Purdue Circle in Little Rock, Arkansas. The media is encouraged to attend. Shalaniece Floyd, a 30-year-old… Read more »

Texas Senator Ted Cruz visited the Laredo Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border and did not contact Border Patrol agents to discuss their needs. According to the agents, Senator Cruz has yet to contact them through his freshman term in the U.S. Senate. The Border Patrol agents reached out to Breitbart Texas and rebuked the Senator for what they say is a pattern of having tough rhetoric while… Read more »

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for the second straight year is being recognized by an Arkansas congressman for all the wrong reasons. U.S. Rep. French Hill, R-Little Rock, on Wednesday awarded the VA the Golden Fleece Award for what the VA office of inspector general has called mismanagement of an $8 million solar panel project at the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital… Read more »

Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) sent Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Bob McDonald a letter awarding the VA with the Golden Fleece Award for the mishandling of the $8 million solar panel project at the Little Rock VA Medical Center. Last week, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released its report on the VA Green Management… Read more »