Mike Ross News Archives

Attitudes about domestic violence changed last May when a 46-year-old man fatally shot his wife three times with a 16-gauge shotgun in front of their teenage sons near De Queen, Ark.

This Just In ... Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.

In the historic eruption of insanity and ignorance that has been the public health-care debate of 2008-09, the most nonsensical idea that surfaced was that the world would end if the government ever got into the business of insuring something.

More Joementum. Remind me why we still call this guy a Democrat? Sure, Lieberman caucuses with Democrats in the Senate--Joe is nothing if not opportunistic and who wants to be part of a lowly Republican minority?--but I think he forfeited his right to call himself one when he almost became John McCain's VP and campaigned stridently against an Obama ...

"The New 'Twilight Zone' -- Obama Declares Swine Flu Emergency" The shocking truth about why Obama announced a National Public Health Emergency in the US this weekend.

The House Energy & Commerce Committee approved the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009 by a vote of 29 to 18 yesterday.

The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Homecoming parade will have at least one participant who didn't attend UAPB, or isn't now a student there.

Four Arkansas emergency management offices will be able to pay for critical upgrades thanks to a big financial boost from Congress.

This story was written by CBSNews.com political reporter Stepahnie Condon . Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is feeling the heat from his liberal colleagues to include a government-run health insurance plan, or "public option," in the Senate health care bill.

I've been sharing with my Sunday School class Dr. David Jeremiah's DVD series called, "What in the World is Going On." It includes material from Dr.

Last Friday, I wrote a piece saluting Blue Dog Mike Ross of AR, who had some sort of epiphany.

U.S. Rep. Mike Ross' office Wednesday dismissed as routine a U.S. Justice Department response to a group calling for an investigation into the congressman's sale of a family pharmacy to an Arkansas drugstore chain.

WARNING! Goodbye U.S Sovereignty... Hello One World Government! Why Won't Democrats Listen? On October 14th 2009, Lord Christopher Monckton, a noted climate change expert, gave a presentation at Bethel College in St.

House Republicans say government consolidation and further cuts are the answer to the state's latest budget shortfall, rather than the Democrat-sponsored plan to delay an income-tax cut that took effect Jan.

Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said Monday that business and labor groups, not lawmakers, should be the ones to work out a compromise on a union organizing bill.

Billion dollar bailouts, federal spending into debt that enslaves our children, trillions spent on wars in places most Americans can't find on a map or tell you why we are there, the Bill of Rights -- intended to protect our God-given individual rights as a free people -- now ignored on a daily basis, have eroded our Republic.

This summer they flexed their muscle when fiery Arkansas Rep. Mike Ross publicly protested that party leaders were "cramming" the president's health care bill down his caucus's "throats." That caused party leaders to whittle down the bill's price tag and delay a vote past the original August deadline.

So now U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine becomes the most important person on health insurance reform, and I'm wondering what that might mean for Arkansas.

Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor and Reps. Marion Berry, Vic Snyder and Mike Ross, all Democrats, announced Friday that the Senate and House have approved the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Development legislation, which contains funding for Arkansas priorities.

The Hill is reporting that Rep. Mike Ross - who led a group of seven centrist Blue Dogs who objected to a public option that reimbursed providers based on Medicare rates - is floating a proposal to open-up Medicare to Americans under 65 , "but at a reimbursement rate much greater than current Medicare rates ": I - speaking only on behalf of myself ...

The health care debate has exacted a toll on many members of Congress, but no one has as many scars to show for it as Mike Ross.

Olympia Snowe's Suits: Matronly Or Magnificent? As the Senate Finance Committee prepares for Tuesday's huge health care vote, all eyes are on Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine.

Sonja Schmidt's "Left Exposed" takes a deeper look at President Obama's lifelong friends and discovers that, with friends like his, you not only don't need enemies, you might actually be one.

Former President Bill Clinton is headlining a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Mike Ross as he kicks off his re-election bid.

TOPICS Blue America Rachel Maddow highlighted our Blue America ad which calls out Blanche Lincoln over her stance on the public option.

Yo, reporters. When the governor and the mayor check in from their European Vacation by phone this morning, somebody might want to ask Gov.

LITTLE ROCK - Mike Ross has enjoyed a higher profile nationally as he's taken a bigger role in the health care debate.

While I've little interest in getting in the middle of the Obama birth issue, Paul Hollrah over at UTFSM did so yesterday and believes the issue can be resolved by Obama answering one simple question:

The Senate Finance Committee voted this afternoon on amendments offered by Sens.

A reporter with Politico, the emerging online source for national political news and commentary, called the other day.

Governor Mike Beebe and state economic officials will travel to Europe in early October to meet with leaders of businesses invested in Arkansas.

Paul Barton Arkansas Times

WASHINGTON; It was far from the usual exchange between a member of Congress and a constituent.

During a mega-sized conference call with more than 6,000 of his constituents last month, Fourth Congressional District Rep. Mike Ross had to assure one nervous woman, “I'll never vote for any bill to kill old people.” .....Click Title to go to Full Story.

What if Lt. Gov. Bill Halter decided to forgo re-election and instead run against U.S. Sen.