Congressman Mike Ross "Never Far from Home"

  • Arkansas Delegation Secures Millions in Funding for Arkansas Defense Priorities
    Dec 16, 2009  - U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Representatives Marion Berry (AR-01), Vic Snyder (AR-02), John Boozman (AR-03) and Mike Ross (AR-04) today announced funding for Arkansas priorities that are critical to the state’s military installations, research institutions, and defense contr... More
  • Ross, Lincoln, Pryor Announce Grant to Preserve Collection at Pine Bluff-Based Arts & Science Center
    Dec 16, 2009  - U.S. Representative Mike Ross (AR-04) and U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor today announced the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will award a $4,150 grant to the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff as a part of NEH’s “We the People” program.  The... More
  • Ross Calls for Watermelon Postage Stam
    Dec 15, 2009  - Highlighting the annual Hope Watermelon Festival, U.S. Representative Mike Ross (AR-04) today called on the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee to issue a postage stamp commemorating the watermelon.  In a letter to the Committee, Ross offered his support to a petition by the National Watermelon Promo... More
  • Arkansas Delegation Announces Millions in Funding for Arkansas’s State and Local Priorities
    Dec 15, 2009  - U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Representatives Marion Berry (AR-01), Vic Snyder (AR-02), and Mike Ross (AR-04) today announced funding for Arkansas projects contained in a group of fiscal year 2010 spending bills, which has passed the House of Representatives and the U.S. Sena... More
  • Ross, Lincoln, Pryor Announce Grant and Loan for Bradley County
    Dec 9, 2009  - U.S. Representative Mike Ross (AR-04) and U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor today announced that Southeast Bradley County Water Association will receive a $343,000 Rural Development grant and a $420,000 loan from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Water and Waste Disposa... More
  • In Memory of Jodie Mahony
    Dec 8, 2009  - Thank you, Madam Speaker,Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of Joseph “Jodie” Mahony II of El Dorado, Arkansas, who passed away on Saturday, December 5, 2009, at the age of 70.  Having served 36 years in the Arkansas state legislature, Jodie was a legend in Arkansas government and polit... More
  • Ross to Host Year-End Telephone Town Hall on Dec. 14
    Dec 2, 2009  - U.S. Rep. Mike Ross (AR-04) will host his sixth telephone town hall live from the nation’s capital on Monday, December 14, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. CDT for residents in Arkansas’s Fourth Congressional District.  From his office in Washington, Ross will take questions on a variety of topics including ... More
  • Ross Statement on President’s Afghanistan Strategy
    Dec 1, 2009  - U.S. Representative Mike Ross, D-Ark., today responded to President Barack Obama’s speech on the ongoing war in Afghanistan: “Anytime we send our troops into harms way, it should be a deliberate and strategic decision fundamental to our national security.  Afghanistan is where al-Qaida plan... More
  • Arkansas Delegation Announces $1.7 Million for Distance Learning, Telemedicine
    Nov 13, 2009  - U.S. Senators Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and U.S. Representatives Marion Berry (AR-01), Vic Snyder (AR-02), John Boozman (AR-03), and Mike Ross (AR-04) today announced that Arkansas will receive $1,780,905 for distance learning and telemedicine projects across the state. The funding is provided ... More
  • Arkansas Lawmakers Represent U.S. at NATO-PA Annual Meeting, Honor American Veterans Abroad
    Nov 9, 2009  - On Monday, two U.S. Representatives from Arkansas, Mike Ross (AR-04) and John Boozman (AR-03), joined an official, bipartisan U.S. delegation to Northern Ireland and Scotland for the annual session of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Parliamentary Assembly (NATO-PA).  Ross and Boozman, wh... More