Mark Pryor News

John Cornyn, R-Texas, Mark Pryor, D-Ark., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, released the following statement after the Senate unanimously passed their amendment to protect the use of pocketknives.

Rob Allbritton presents a tape from the KATV of Little Rock to Dr. B Alan Sugg, President of the University of Arkansas system commemorating the donation of the KATV archives to the University of Arkansas by the Allbritton family.

Lake lovers can use boat launch facilities and swim at beaches on Norfork and Bull Shoals lakes for free Aug.

Little Rock's ABC affiliate has announced it will donate its film archives to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville's David & Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral & Visual History.

Thirty Arkansas counties ravaged by a January ice storm will receive nearly $10 million for recovery efforts, the state's congressional delegation announced Tuesday.

In the first year of operation in Arkansas of a federal program that targets high-traffic drug corridors, law enforcement officials in Little Rock have seized six times as much cocaine and more than 10 times as much marijuana as the program had targeted.

Last week, officials announced that the much anticipated funding for the completion of designated I-555 had been approved in the amount of $2.2 million.

In late June, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., introduced the Fueling America Act to increase the number of natural-gas and propane vehicles used across the country.

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., on Monday touted a $950,000 federal grant she helped get for a nursing school and told hospital officials they might be able to get more from the federal stimulus program.

Five months into his administration, President Obama has room for improvement on issues important to rural Arkansas, members of the state's congressional delegation say.

Democratic leaders are predicting a close victory on the cap-and-trade bill. If it passes, it would cap U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

(Little Rock, AR - June 25, 2009) The Waxman-Markey “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009,” also known as Cap and Trade, will take over $63 million per year from Arkansas’ schools through higher electric rates and natural gas rates*. This is an average of $232,000 per school district per year that can no longer be used to hire teachers or give teachers raises. These increased energy costs could also lead to higher property tax rates for Arkansas property owners.

June 17, 2009 By Douglas McIntosh If I had to describe myself in this moment of economic chaos, I would say I am the grizzled sergeant, war weary, caught in the zone of instinctive awareness that combat veterans have. In order to survive you become a detached, cynical professional. In the sense of college degrees I am a rank amateur. However, over the last decade I have called the economic sphere pretty well. Perhaps the timing has been off, but I have nailed the trends perfectly. It takes a while for a two inch garden hose to fill a swimming pool, but it will fill it. Likewise, the endless debt, credit and bubbles of the last 25 years are finally reaching critical mass. It is no longer a matter of whether we have an economic collapse. No it is a matter of the scope, the intensity and the social chaos that economic collapse causes. My moniker over at Tree of Liberty is Doomer Doug, so I know what I am talking about. In a phrase, it is not coming: it is here.

Lt. Gov. Bill Halter has been on the phone a good bit lately. Like for nine hours in what are called "tele-town-halls." The telephone calls are about the college scholarships that are to be financed by the Arkansas lottery.

U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced in Memphis on Wednesday $500 million in grants available to prepare workers for "green" jobs.

Suddenly the push to radically rewrite the rules of American medicine is at a critical juncture .

Unwilling to give up on making it easier for workers to organize, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., said Wednesday he is eyeing a new proposal both business and labor could support.

Sen. Mark Pryor on Thursday introduced a bill that would reauthorize a program that allows states to provide help to each other by sharing emergency responders when natural or man-made disasters occur.

June 16, 2009: The confirmation hearing for Julius Genachowski, President Obama's choice as Chairman of the FCC, held today, began with Sen.

This week Congress may choose to put as much as $4,500 in your pocket for a brand new car.