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SENTE VOTES TO BEGIN FARM BILL CONFERENCE, NAMES CONFEREES Aug. 2, 2018 Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry news release U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., are pleased the Senate has voted to move forward with the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee. The Senators also applauded the announcement of the Senators who will serve on the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee.
Duane "Dak" Kees took the oath of office as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas on Friday during an investiture ceremony presided over by four federal court judges. Western Arkansas Chief U.S. District Judge P.K. Holmes III administered the oath to Kees before an audience of about 200 that included U.S. Sen. John Boozman, who put forward Kees' name for the position to President Donald Trump, and Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a former U.S. attorney for the Western District.
While in town for the mid-year report by the Arkansas Valley Alliance for Economic Development, U.S. Senator John Boozman visited the MARVA workshop. Boozman was given a tour of the workshop, that creates jobs for individuals with disabilities, which includes a resale store and donation center.
Larry Hay's Army tour in Vietnam was a half century ago, long before he married Margaret, his wife of 34 years. "When he goes to bed at night, he goes back to hell.
WASHINGTON Ronny L. Jackson, President Trump's choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, is facing mounting skepticism from Senate Republicans over whether he has the management experience to lead the nation's second-largest bureaucracy. The comments from several GOP senators, particularly those with influence on veterans' issues, signal Jackson will have to work overtime to persuade not just Democrats but Trump's own party that he is qualified to oversee the beleaguered agency.
Operators of a mobile farmers market are stepping in to try to fill some of the gap left in a Little Rock neighborhood after the area's only grocery store closed this month. One of the owners, Chad Evans, said Friday that the store was unable to negotiate a favorable lease with the building owner.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell : "I thought my friends across the aisle would jump at this opportunity to fulfill what they say is their top priority. But they just could not take 'yes' for an answer.
Once Arkansas allows medical marijuana sales, veterans in the care of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs physicians can discuss the drug with their doctors, but that's it. In the federal government's eyes, marijuana is an illegal, Schedule 1 controlled substance, meaning the VA won't recommend, prescribe or pay for cannabis.
With the order delivered by LCS9 sponsor Janee Bonner, The USS Little Rock was formally commissioned into the U.S, Navy Saturday as 8,500 shivering onlookers gathered at Canalside alongside the new ship and her old namesake in permanent residence at the Buffalo Naval Park. #USSLittleRock #LCS9 sponsor Janee Bonner gives the order to "man our ship and bring her to life!" pic.twitter.com/L1BREOJjOF During the most emotional point of the ceremony steeped in deep Navy tradition, the crew of the new USS Little Rock ran to duty aboard the ship as they took their watches and the visible signs that the ship was now operational could be seen.
President Donald Trump has nominated an ethics and compliance director at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to be the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Duane A. Kees, known as "Dak," currently focuses on corporate investigations for the Bentonville-based retailer, according to a news release the White House sent out Friday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a new health coverage overhaul bill today, but the Washington Post reports that doubts remain whether he has sufficient Republican votes to pass it. The situation is complicated by a competing bill from two Republican senators.
John Hatcher, right, and Ethan Williams, both of Jonesboro, hold up signs for passing motorists while protesting the healthcare bill in front of the Municipal Center Thursday, June 29, 2017, in Jonesboro, Ark. The U.S. Senate GOP's stalled health care legislation needs to ease some of its limits on Medicaid spending and give greater control of the program to the states, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday.
A group of demonstrators held a rally and delivered postcards, signed by about 1,000 Arkansans, to the Little Rock offices of U.S. Sens. Tom Cotton and John Boozman on Wednesday, asking them to oppose efforts to cut Medicaid and other government health care assistance. Cotton is one of 13 members of a Republican working group assigned to write Senate legislation aimed at dismantling the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
President Donald Trump's decision to reverse some Obama-era Cuba policies landed with a thud among many congressional Republicans who say the new approach surrenders a potentially lucrative market for American goods and services to competitors. While anti-Castro conservatives hailed Trump's partial roll-back of President Barack Obama's detente, a number of other GOP lawmakers, particularly from farm states, criticized the change as misguided and isolationist.
Plagiarizing phrases from Obama's talking points on the Normalization Circus, some pro-Castro Republicans are asking the Trumpinator to keep that Circus alive. One would think that Republicans might want to find some arguments in favor of the Normalization Circus that haven't come straight out of the mouths of "progressives" in the Democratic Party or from the editorial staff of the major news outlets that support the Castro regime.
Kyle Massey at Arkansas Business reports on an announcement today that Warren Stephens , the CEO of Stephens Inc. , has produced a film series and related media, "This is Capitalism." Stephens explains that capitalism has gotten a bad rap.
Following the inclusion of $5 million for the National Coast Guard Museum in the federal spending bill working its way through Congress, several of Connecticut's congressional delegates are reviving a bill to create a commemorative coin that would help to raise money for the museum. U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, on Wednesday reintroduced the United States Coast Guard Commemorative Coin Act, which would require the U.S. Treasury to create new $5 gold coins, $1 silver coins and half-dollar coins.
A new $15 million manufacturing plant and testing laboratory in West Memphis with close ties to the Clean Line Energy project, which is roundly opposed by Arkansas' delegation in Congress, officially opens today. Production at the plant began earlier this month with about 30 workers.
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., described the lifting of the hiring freeze for federal employees by President Donald Trump as good news for the region since the Red River Army Depot drives the economic wheels. Boozman toured the region, including RRAD.