French Hill: Seize Opportunity By French Hill Just over a year ago, the pro-growth Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 was signed into law. In addition to the tax cuts that benefited both families and small businesses in Arkansas, the legislation also established qualified Opportunity Zones. These zones are designed to attract companies and businesses to invest in economically distressed communities through federal government tax incentives such as eliminating the capital gains tax. There's a direct r...
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WASHINGTON D.C. — Congressman French Hill (R-AR) named the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as the latest winner of the Golden Fleece Award for accepting inflated bids for the management of Medicare Part D plans, resulting in roughly $9.1 billion in extra payments to insurers from 2006 to 2015. “Clearly, more transparency and accountability are needed to ensure that cost forecasts for Medicare prescription-drug benefits are not wildly inflated by insurance providers," said Rep. ...
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Click on the picture above to watch Rep. Hill's remarks today from the House floor in support of religious freedom for Coptic Christians in Egypt. WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, on Religious Freedom Day, Congressman French Hill (R-AR) introduced a resolution, H.Res.49, expressing support for Coptic Christians and religious liberty in Egypt: “Egypt and the United States are important partners in the fight against terrorism. However, we must confront the reality that Coptic Christians in Egypt do not r...
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House, state delegation condemn King's words; Arkansas congressman calls them 'ignorant and indefensible' By The ADG WASHINGTON -- One day after U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, was stripped of his committee assignments by Republican leadership, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday rejecting white supremacy and white nationalism. The vote was 424-1, with all four House members from Arkansas voting "yes"; U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., voted against it, arguing...
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WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) released the following statement after his legislation to enhance Arkansas’s wilderness area, the Flatside Wilderness Enhancement Act, was signed into law: “I’m pleased that my bill to enhance one of Arkansas’s most unspoiled landscapes, Flatside Wilderness, has been signed into law. Arkansans and visitors now have the opportunity to enjoy more of Arkansas’s natural and wild qualities, all while boosting the state’s economy. This addition ...
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WASHINGTON D.C. — This week, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) spoke on the House floor to decry the partisanship that has taken hold of our nation and remind people of the great friendship between former Speaker of the House Nick Longworth and Minority Leader John Garner. Click on the picture above to watch video of Rep. Hill's speech on the House floor this past Wednesday. Highlights of his prepared remarks are copied below: "Mr. Speaker, I look forward with optimism to the 116th Congress. I re...
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U.S. indicts Russian lawyer in tax-fraud case By The ADG NEW YORK -- The Russian lawyer who attended the Trump Tower meeting that is a focus of the special counsel's investigation into possible collusion was charged with obstructing an unrelated tax-fraud case, federal prosecutors in New York said Tuesday. Natalya Veselnitskaya was indicted on one count of obstruction of justice after, prosecutors said, she teamed up with a senior Russian prosecutor and submitted deceptive declarations in a civi...
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WASHINGTON D.C.– Today, Congressman French Hill (AR-02) issued the following statement in response to the president’s oval office address on securing the southwest U.S. border: “Whether or not Democrats want to acknowledge the facts, the reality is that we have an unsustainable security crisis at our southwest border. I've visited the border numerous times and seen with my own eyes the devastating human cost of having a porous border. Security experts agree that cracking down on illegal immigrat...
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WASHINGTON, D.C.– Congressman French Hill (AR-02) announced that Steven D. Smith recently joined his staff to serve as his new Communications Director. Smith, a graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a Cincinnati, Ohio native, began working on Capitol Hill in 2011. He most recently served as Communications Director for immediate past House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce (CA-39) as well as for Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ-04). Prior to this, he served in the leadersh...
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Hill legislation to expand Arkansas national forest presented to president By The Ripon Advance U.S. Rep. French Hill’s (R-AR) Flatside Wilderness Enhancement Act is on its way to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law. Rep. Hill on April 26, 2018 sponsored H.R. 5636 to expand the Flatside Wilderness on the Ouachita National Forest in his home state. “I’m pleased that my bill to enhance one of Arkansas’s most unspoiled landscapes, Flatside Wilderness, has been sent to the president’...
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