WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. John Boozman, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * Original text here: WASHINGTON --U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) announced his committee assignments for the 119th Congress. Boozman will serve as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and will also return as a member of the Appropriations, Environment and Public Works, and Veterans' Affairs Committees. This Congress, Boozman will also rejoin the Senate Comm  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * Contact: Caroline Tabler or Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353 January 6, 2025 Chairman Cotton Names Ryan Tully as Senate Intelligence Committee Staff Director Washington, D.C. -- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), the incoming Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today named Ryan Tully as his Staff Director for the committee. Tully has previously served as Senator Cotton's staff des  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: * * * Contact: Caroline Tabler or Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353 January 7, 2025 Cotton to Garland: The DOJ is Targeting Cops While Ignoring Criminals Washington, D.C. -- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland condemning the Department of Justice for its recent push to impose federal consent decrees on multiple police stations across the country. This gros  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Jan. 6, 2025: Today, President Joe Biden announced a prohibition on oil and gas development in more than 600 million acres of federal waters along the Atlantic coast, the Pacific coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and portions of the northern Bering Sea. House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Sen. John Boozman, R-Arkansas, issued the following weekly column on Jan. 6, 2025: * * * There was an unmistakable sound in the skies above Fort Smith last month. The loud boom of two F-35s making the journey from a Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas, to their new home at Ebbing Air National Guard Base echoed around the community and marked an exciting milestone. That event has been years in the making and signals the opening of the next chapter in Arkansas's   more