I am pleased to have completed a successful first year in office where I was able to secure over $100 million to help families and seniors, support businesses and industries, and improve our infrastructure in the Fourth Congressional District.  I fought hard last year to improve education for our children, to protect Social Security and modernize Medicare to include medicine for our seniors, to support tax relief for hard-working Arkansas families, to provide much needed assistance to our farmers through a new Farm Bill, to protect important industries like our catfish farmers and timber producers from the unfair dumping of Vietnamese so-called catfish and Canadian softwood lumber, and to make sure the President and our military have the resources they need to defend our country against the evils of terrorism. 

As we begin this new session of the 107th Congress, I will continue to fight for these priorities, and I am looking forward to addressing the challenges facing our area and our nation. 
I hope to get to visit with many of you in the coming days as I make stops in communities throughout the Fourth Congressional District.  If I can ever be of service to you, I hope that you will free to contact me by phone, fax, email, or by sending letters to my Prescott office at 221 West Main Street, Prescott, Arkansas, 71857.  As a result of the anthrax situation in October, we are still waiting for incoming mail to fully resume in the 435 congressional offices in Washington.  For the coming weeks, please continue to mail your letters to my Prescott office. 

We are here to serve you, and we look forward to doing that in this New Year.

I am interested in hearing your comments and concerns.  Please feel free to contact me at (800) 223-2220 or at mike.ross@mail.house.gov.