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Second District U.S. Rep. French Hill and other congressmen traveled earlier this month to the former Soviet Union, stopping in one of its former satellite states... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK — A Purple Heart ceremony held at the state Capitol on Friday took just one phone call to arrange, but the actual ceremony came only after 10 years of frustration with military bureaucracy and 20 years after the recipient had died... Read more »

Rep. French Hill met with Faulkner County Farm Bureau President Chris Schaefers of Conway, Arkansas Farm Bureau State Women’s Committee member Donna Bemis of Little Rock, Pulaski County Farm Bureau board member Debbie Moreland of Roland and Conway County Farm Bureau board member Tommy Thompson of Morrilton on April 30 during Farm Bureau’s first Farm Policy Summit in Little Rock... Read more »

Today, after the Department of Labor (DOL) issued the final version of its fiduciary rule, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement: “While DOL’s rule may be well-intended, its effects will limit access to professional retirement planning and guidance for those who need it the most. This is ultimately another tone-deaf attempt by this administration to… Read more »

Here is something no one wants to hear during one of the slowest periods of economic growth since the Second World War: businesses in Arkansas and across the country are set to be hit with an aggressive 113 percent increase in the salary threshold for overtime pay. While the president touts this extension of overtime pay for salaried workers making up to $50,440 (current threshold is… Read more »

A man in thin-framed glasses walked gingerly to his seat on the end of an empty row, positioning the stage on the side of his good ear.... Read more »

U.S. Senator John Boozman, Senator Tom Cotton, Congressman Rick Crawford, Congressman French Hill, Congressman Steve Womack, and Congressman Bruce Westerman issued the following statement in response to an announcement by the Department of Energy (DOE) to use Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109–58) to partner with Clean Line Energy in an energy transmission project across Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Tennessee... Read more »

Darci Vetter, one of the Obama administration’s key negotiators for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, is making her case in Arkansas for the necessity of getting congressional approval of the controversial trade pact by the end of 2016... Read more »

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AFB) - Arkansas Farm Bureau will host a Farm Policy Summit, where it will bring its farmers and ranchers along with national farm policy leaders – in addition to each member of the state's Congressional delegation – to Little Rock to discuss the mounting challenges facing the agriculture economy... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford’s 1st District in eastern Arkansas is home to half the nation’s rice acres. Cuba imports 400,000 tons of rice a year, mostly from Vietnam. So yeah, he’s for opening up trade to Cuba... Read more »