WASHINGTON -- The National Republican Senatorial Committee named U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton as one of three vice chairmen for the 2016 cycle, according to a news release.
The Dardanelle Republican will work with Committee Chairman Roger Wicker of Mississippi to help Republicans defend their newly acquired majority.
The committee, which helps Republican Senate candidates organize and fund their campaigns, raised $17.5 million and spent $24.5 million during the 2014 campaign, according to financial reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Huckabee on TV
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee is scheduled to appear on NBC's Meet the Press this morning. The Republican is considering a presidential bid and is promoting his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy.
The Sunday-morning news show, hosted by Chuck Todd, is broadcast in Little Rock on KARK-TV at 9 a.m.; in Fayetteville on KNWA-TV at 8 a.m.; in El Dorado on KTVE-TV at 8 a.m.; and in the Memphis area on WMC-TV at 9 a.m.
Huckabee is among several potential Republican presidential candidates who was scheduled to speak at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines on Saturday, including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.
ON THE HILL
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, a Republican from Rogers, was named Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. The subcommittee has jurisdiction over annual funding for a range of federal agencies in the executive branch and the federal courts.
Boozman will also be co-chairman of the Senate General Aviation Caucus with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., in the 114th Congress.
On Thursday, Boozman met with a group of about 50 young Arkansans visiting Washington for the March for Life and spoke with them on the Capitol steps.
Boozman met Wednesday with Kenneth Heiles, dean of the proposed Arkansas Colleges of Health Education and the proposed Arkansas College of Osteopathic Medicine to get an update on the Fort Smith project's progress.
Heiles met with U.S. Rep. French Hill, a Republican from Little Rock, Thursday.
Also Thursday, Hill met with Little Rock Air Force Base Community Council President Brad Hegeman to discuss the planned transfer of 10 C-130J aircraft to the base from Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss.
U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford has hired James Arnold, 23, as his Washington press secretary. The Marked Tree native managed Crawford's re-election campaign and graduated from New York University in May with a bachelor's degree in ancient Greek and Latin.
U.S. Rep. Steve Womack visited the National Institutes of Health Tuesday with members of the Appropriations Committee's Labor, Health and Human Services Subcommittee, met with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and toured various labs.
Rogers Community Development Block Grant Administrator Donna Johnston and National Community Development Association Region VI Board member David Smith met with Womack Wednesday.
On Friday, Womack joined Bentonville Mayor Bob McCaslin, Bella Vista Mayor Peter Christie, Benton County Judge Bob Clinard and Northwest Arkansas Council President Mike Malone at the Bentonville Chamber Business Matters Breakfast.
He also attended the Springdale Chamber Annual Meeting at the Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale Friday.
U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, a Republican from Hot Springs, attended a jobs announcement in Clarksville Friday. Hanes, a maker of bras and hosiery, will add 120 jobs, relocating a manufacturing line from Mexico.
On Thursday, Westerman met with Pine Bluff Mayor Debe Hollingsworth during her visit to the nation's capital for the U.S. Conference of Mayors' winter meeting.
Hollingsworth met with Cotton Friday in his Capitol Hill office about veterans' issues.
Cotton was named to the Senate Banking Committee's Subcommittees on Housing, Transportation and Community Development; on Economic Policy; and on National Security and International Trade and Finance.
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