WASHINGTON Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation slammed President Obama’s budget proposal, faulting the plan for raising taxes and not cutting spending enough. And the cuts that are proposed, they said, would disproportionately hit farmers and

LITTLE ROCK One of my most valued readers tells me I have behaved insufferably in writing that Arkansas voters had no idea what they were doing when they approved these off-year fiscal legislative sessions. It’s not that she resents so much my insulting

WASHINGTON Several bills designed to improve federal budgeting are making the rounds on Capitol Hill. There’s the Pro-Growth Budgeting Act, the Honest Budget Act, the Baseline Reform Act, and the Biennial Budgeting and Appropriations Act, to name a few.

LITTLE ROCK A bill offered Thursday by Rep. Rick Crawford would allow farmers to create their own tax-free rainy-day funds to help bridge the gap between disasters and the federal disaster assistance that can often take months to follow - if it comes at

National Republican Congressional Committee Deputy Chairman Greg Walden predicts that the House GOP's incumbency-protection program will frustrate "Democrats vying to return Nancy Pelosi as Speaker." The National Republican Congressional Committee is add

LITTLE ROCK Campaign finance reports show Republican Congressman Rick Crawford trailed a Democratic challenger in fundraising during the last three months of 2011. However, Crawford has more money in the bank for his re-election bid. Crawford reported F