LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 28 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 27, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement after co-leading a 27-state comment letter opposing a proposal from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would unduly burden state and national meat and poultry producers and illegally expand the EPA's regulatory authority: "The EPA wants to impose illegal and crippling regulations on meat and poultry   more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 29 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 28, 2024: * * * Attorney General Tim Griffin today issued the following statement after announcing that he and seven other state attorneys general are asking the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas to take additional action against a Texas based robocaller for violating permanent robocall and telemarketing bans: "In March of last year, my office obtained  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, March 29 -- Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement on March 28, 2024: * * * Following announcements by the attorneys general of Kansas and Missouri that they are each filing lawsuits challenging the Biden administration's latest efforts to cancel student debt, Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement: "Arkansas was part of the original coalition that sued the Biden administration over its first unlawful debt-cancellation   more

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The American Bar Association issued the following news release on March 26, 2024: FBI Director Christopher Wray will speak at an American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security luncheon from noon-1:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 9, at the University Club in Washington, D.C. Wray will discuss FBI priorities for 2024, including the bureau's new intelligence program strategy, foreign threats to American elections, cyberattacks on the U.S. infrastruc  more

COLUMBIA, South Carolina, March 29 -- Gov. Henry McMaster, R-South Carolina, issued the following news on March 28, 2024: * * * Governor Henry McMaster today appointed retired federal appellate judge Dennis W. Shedd of Irmo, as chairman of the South Carolina State Election Commission. The appointment is effective immediately and will fill the vacancy of former election commission chairman John Wells of Lugoff, who stepped down from his position on Wednesday following five years of service. "  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on March 27, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on congressional Republicans' refusal to reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for five years. This is the first time the historically bipartisan initiative was not renewed for a five-year period since it w  more