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Mike Ross of Prescott represents Arkansas's Fourth Congressional District which includes 29 counties throughout much of the southern and western parts of the state. First elected in 2000, Mike is currently serving his fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives .
A fifth-generation Arkansan, Mike brings to Washington the same common sense values he learned growing up in towns like Prescott, Emmet and Hope. Mike serves on the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce and its Energy, Health and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees. Mike also serves on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Mike is a key leader of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of fiscally conservative Democratic House members that advocates the principles of fiscal responsibility, government accountability and national security.
In the last session of Congress, Mike was recognized for having presided over the U.S. House of Representatives for more than 100 hours as Speaker Pro Tempore.
Mike Co-Chairs the Congressional Delta Caucus, the I-49 Congressional Caucus and the I-69 Congressional Caucus. As an avid hunter and outdoorsmen, Mike also serves as Vice-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus.
The son of public school educators, Mike was born in Texarkana, Arkansas. He and his wife, Holly, have two children. They are active members of the First United Methodist Church in Prescott.
In 1990, Mike was elected, at age 29, as the youngest member of the Arkansas State Senate where he served for ten years. He is also a former member of the Nevada County Quorum Court and a graduate of Hope High School in Hope, Arkansas, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He worked his way through college as a radio announcer.
When Mike is not working in the nation’s capital or visiting the 150 towns in the Fourth Congressional District, he spends time with his family and enjoys hunting and fishing right here in Arkansas.
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