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'Arkansas Senate District 3'

Democratic Senate candidate presses for GIF spending disclosure by all legislators

Jon Comstock, a Democrat challenging Republican Sen. Cecile Bledsoe for the District 3 state Senate seat, wants more legislative accountability for voters. Among other ideas, he wants full and specific disclosure by each legislator of money they spent from the discredited General Improvement Fund pork barrel from 2013-17.
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Suddenly, Senate talking ethics

The state Senate leadership suddenly thinks we might have an ethics scandal worth addressing.
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Senate passes continuation of Medicaid expansion 27-2

The Arkansas Senate is debating the state Human Services Department's medical services  appropriation, with its continuation of the Arkansas Works program to expand Medicaid coverage in Arkansas under Obamacare.

Government in the shadows; the Arkansas Senate likes it that way

Will the Arkansas Senate ever allow the public to watch it work on the web? The House does, to its credit. The Senate likes to make it difficult to hold them accountable.
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Will Arkansas join the red state revolt? Part II

Looking ahead to state Senate elections.

Senate 11th-hour funny business afoot

The legislature is meeting to tie up loose ends today and the biggest issue on the calendar thought likely to get a meaningful vote is one last run at a bill aimed at making Internet retailers collect the Arkansas sales tax.
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Senate soundly rejects House speaker's constitutional amendment

The Senate thrashed House Speaker Jeremy Gillam's proposed constitutional amendment on amendments this morning, but it could get another vote.

A hot Republican primary for Arkansas Senate

State Rep. Kim Hammer, a Benton Republican, announced last night that he'd be a candidate for state Senate in 2018 against incumbent Republican Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, who lives in western Little Rock.
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Medicaid expansion legislation passes in House and Senate

As expected, the House and Senate each passed legislation this morning for "Arkansas Works," the governor's plan to continue the state's private option Medicaid expansion, which provides health insurance for more than a quarter million low-income Arkansans.

The Arkansas Legislative Hoops game set for March 15

The fourth annual Arkansas Legislative Hoops Game will be March 15, with members of the Arkansas House of Representatives and the Arkansas Senate facing off at 7 p.m., at the Jack Stephens Center on the UALR campus.
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Senate Republicans join the demagoguery line

Senate Republicans have joined the House Republican caucus in demagoguing the Supreme Court marriage equality ruling with empty promises to pass redundant and/or unconstitutional legislation.
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