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Ross Cautious About Financial Rescue Package

U.S. Representative Mike announced that he has hired Monticello native Zach Baumgarten as his Director of Constituent Services in his Washington, D.C., Congressional Office.  Baumgarten completed the first session of Ross’s Washington, D.C., Congressional internship program in 2007.

Seniors, Disabled Veterans Among Eligible Arkansans Ross Encourages to File Before Oct. 15 Deadline

Grant to Assess Feasibility of Ethanol Production
U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor along with Representative Mike Ross announced Monday that Delta Sweet Sorghum Ethanol Producers, LLC, of Lake Village will receive a $97,500 Rural Development grant from the United States Department of Agriculture. The funds will be used to asses the feasibility of cellulosic [...]

Health Insurance Should Be Less Expensive, More Accessible

A New Generation of Veterans; Our Responsibility to Them

Four members of Arkansas’s Congressional Delegation traveled this week to Iraq as part of an official trip to visit the roughly 3,000 members of the 39th Infantry Brigade of the Arkansas National Guard on their second deployment to Iraq within four years.
U.S. Senator Mark Pryor along with U.S. Representatives Marion Berry (AR-01), John Boozman (AR-03) [...]

This week I helped pass an important bill in the U.S. House of Representatives to assist homeowners who are struggling amidst a deteriorating housing market. The American Housing Rescue & Foreclosure Prevention Act (H.R. 3221) is the most comprehensive response yet to the American mortgage crisis and I was proud to support it to help [...]

Planning for the Television Transition

U.S. Representative Mike Ross supported legislation Thursday to significantly increase our nation’s domestic energy production. The DRILL Act would have increased oil and natural gas production in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), as well as oil production on federal lands already leased by oil companies.

U.S. Representative Mike Ross (AR-04) Monday told a panel of his Congressional colleagues that record-high gas and diesel fuel prices are taking a toll on all sectors of our economy.

This week, I joined my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to pass a groundbreaking G.I. Bill for the next generation of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Oil prices are reaching record highs on what seem like a daily basis, which are causing energy and utility costs to take a heavy toll on our nation’s working families, seniors, farmers and small businesses.