Mark Pryor News

We noted yesterday that, as Republicans lob attacks on Planned Parenthood , Insurance Commissioner Jay Bradford met with an official from the group on Friday to discuss their application to participate in the Affordable Care Act 's "guides" program.

Republican leaders from 10 Southern states are meeting in Alabama to plan strategies for making new GOP inroads across the region.

The handful of Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2014 in tough states have decided to embrace Obamacare, taking the opportunity of its implementation coinciding with the midterm elections to remind constituents of its benefits and to make sure they understand and can use them.

Designed to promote a "whole river" approach to watershed conservation, recreation and economic development, the National Blueways program is turning out to be a source of considerable controversy on both sides of the Arkansas-Missouri border.

In this March 7, 2008, file photo, U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., is interviewed after filing for re-election at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark.

An effort to repeal Arkansas' plan to provide private insurance to thousands of low-income workers could complicate campaigns for both Republicans and Democrats next year, but the repeal proposal faces long odds and a tight deadline to even make it onto the 2014 ballot.

Sen. Mark Pryor met privately Wednesday with members of Sandy Hook Promise six months after 20 Connecticut school children were slaughtered in a five-minute burst of bullets.

Far from reversing course, Senate Democrats who backed President Barack Obama's health care law and now face re-election in GOP-leaning states are reinforcing their support for the overhaul even as Republicans intensify their criticism.

On the six-month anniversary of the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group Mayors Against Illegal Guns held a small rally here Friday to urge Sen. Mark Pryor to change his position on background checks for gun purchasers.

With the exception of Fort Smith, five of the six metro areas covered in the Little Rock Zone of the Federal Reserve's St. Louis District showed improvement or flatline stability in the first quarter of 2013.

The Arkansas Keeping Families Together Campaign , a coalition of groups in favor of immigration reform, will hold a vigil tonight at First United Methodist downtown at 7 p.m. Organizers hope to demonstrate local support for the Senate immigration reform bill to Sen. Mark Pryor , who is in town this weekend.

President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden welcomed the LGBT community and its allies to a Pride reception at the White House where Obama urged passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act after touting a list of his accomplishments thus far.

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday fired back at Sen. Charles Schumer for knocking his campaign to oust even Democrats who vote against new gun-control laws.

Michael Bloomberg has to ask himself that question every day, people. He has a dual identity, like an action hero.

Gun violence survivors, faith leaders, veterans, gun-owners and concerned citizens will join together in a day of remembrance and a call to action at events in 10 states June 14 to commemorate the six-month anniversary of the shooting at Sandy Hook School.

A key centrist Democrat said Thursday he was leaning toward voting for the Senate immigration bill, suggesting the legislation could carry the support of nearly the entire Democratic caucus.

Territorial Gov. John Pope characterized it as "a terrified truculence toward new ideas from outside."

Arkansas Democrats are hoping Bill Clinton can help boost their chances in a state where few other national Democrats dare tread.

Six months after a gunman burst into a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school and slaughtered 20 children and killed six others, promises of stricter national gun control laws remain largely unfulfilled.

Randall Stephenson and Senator Mark Pryor talked about the future of mobile technology.They were expected to discuss the rise of the smartphone, the increasing demand for broadband spectrum and how government and ..