Mark Pryor News

Not much new to report this morning. If all goes well, I'm going to catch at least three movies today at the Little Rock Film Festival .

If left to the Republican Party, there'd be no National Labor Relations Board to look after employee rights in the workplace.

The state took control of the district yesterday because of fiscal woes. Turner has a long resume of school work, including in the fiscal distress unit of the state department.

Sen. Jason Rapert, author of the patently unconstitutional bill to ban most abortions in Arkansas at the 12th week of pregnancy, took heart yesterday at Judge Susan Webber Wright's indication that she was inclined to uphold the part of the law that requires women seeking an abortion in the 12th week of pregnancy or later to have an ultrasound and ... (more)

Arkansas' two U.S. senators are participating in an online discussion with small business owners about the Internet and economic development.

Leslie Newell Peacock will be in federal court for us this morning for the preliminary injunction hearing on the lawsuit challenging the new state law prohibiting most abortions after 12 weeks of pregnancy.

The House and Senate convened briefly this morning to complete the 2013 General Assembly.

Mark Pryor, today pounding him for once saying seven years ago that he supported permanent repeal of the estate tax but joining in recent bipartisan approval of what is now a dramatically lower estate tax.

U.S. Senator Thad Cochran, R-MS, today reported that legislation to exempt small farms from Environmental Protection Agency fuel storage requirements has been incorporated into the Senate-passed Water Resources Development Act of 2013 .

Does the endorsement of James Lee Witt, Bill Clinton's FEMA director, now a bigtime lobbyist/consultant, help Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Ross? Surely it will in Wildcat Holler.

Federal Judge Susan Webber Wright has denied the state of Arkansas's motion to dismiss the ACLU-backed lawsuit challenging the new state law, passed over Gov.

U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas is hosting a Twitter town hall to answer questions about the farm bill and other agricultural issues.

The state attorney general's office on Tuesday mailed letters to 156 businesses around Arkansas ordering them to cease and desist payday lending activity.

It's time to let television viewers buy individual channels rather than being required to pay for bundles of programming, and to end blackouts of sports contests in publicly financed stadiums, U.S. Senator John McCain said.

Lt. Gov. Mark Darr is seriously considering a race in south Arkansas' 4th Congressional District in the 2014 election, he told 5NEWS on Monday .

Politico Senior Reporter Jonathan Martin says he doesn't believe U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., will have to take another vote on the controversial Manchin-Toomey gun control legislation.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK: COMMERCE USING WIDE-ANGLE LENS ON VIDEO: The Senate subcommittee on communications and technology holds a "state of video" hearing on Tuesday, and since it's the Hill's first look at video policy issues since a House Commerce hearing in February, industry players and observers seem eager to stake their claims on a subject ... (more)

The Air Force said plans are still in place to keep the 188th Air Guard Unit in The River Valley.

Kind of a nicely written narrative from Rep. Nate Bell of Mena on what he says was a formative episode of his youth, when, he says, a 30-30 rifle gave him the backing he needed to scare a would-be intruder away from his Alabama home.

The unearthing of background discussions between UAMS and St. Vincent Health on combination of their clinical operations in Little Rock continues through Freedom of Information Act requests.