Face the Nation to talk to Cotton

Clinton secures spokesman for campaign, media aide

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton is scheduled to appear on CBS’ Face the Nation today to talk about the letter he penned to Iranian leaders regarding negotiations with the United States over nuclear power.

The show airs at 9:30 a.m. on KTHV in central Arkansas, on KFSM in Northwest Arkansas and on WREG in Memphis.

CLINTONS

Hillary Rodham Clinton is bringing on former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spokesman Jesse Ferguson “to help oversee parts of the day-to-day press operation at her New York headquarters, and to serve as one of the key spokesmen for the campaign,” the New York Times reported last week.

Clinton The Musical opens off-Broadway on April 9 at New World Stages in New York City. It is directed and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Dan Knechtges.

DELEGATION

The U.S. House was off last week, and the U.S. Senate was in session.

Arkansas’ U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman of Hot Springs was the keynote speaker at the Jefferson County Lincoln-Jefferson Dinner on Thursday night in Pine Bluff and a Hot Springs Village Republican Women event.

On Tuesday, he spoke at the Rotary Club meeting in Ozark, after hosting a ribbon-cutting and open house at his Ozark office in the Franklin County Courthouse.

Arkansas’ U.S. Rep. French Hill of Little Rock traveled to Little Rock Air Force Base in Jacksonville and talked with Mayflower citizens Monday. On Tuesday, he visited the Central Arkansas Water Intake Facility at Lake Maumelle. On Wednesday, he met with Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner and visited the Healing Waters Outreach and Worship Center.

On Saturday, Arkansas’ U.S. Sen. John Boozman of Rogers was to attend the “Kicking up Dust” Gala, a fundraiser for the U.S. Marshals Museum, in Fort Smith.

Boozman had a recognition of the 100th anniversary of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission placed in the Congressional Record on Wednesday.

Also last week, Boozman met with mayors from Bryant, Camden, Hot Springs and Maumelle, as well as representatives of The Arkansas Bicycle Club, Arkansas Credit Union, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Arkansas Advanced Energy Association and the Society of American Florists.

On Tuesday, Cotton met with Jennifer Necessary of Rogers with the ALS Association and with Arkansas members of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

CAUCUS MEMBERSHIP

Boozman will lead the Senate Air Force Caucus for the next two years along with U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Jon Tester, D-Mont.

The group consists of 35 members and focuses on the U.S. Air Force. The caucus sponsors briefings, base visits and meetings with Air Force personnel throughout the year.

U.S. Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., of Rogers and U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., announced Tuesday that they have created the House Congressional Chicken Caucus. The caucus will work to educate members of Congress about issues important to U.S. chicken producers.

CUBA TRIP

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., joined Cotton and several other Republican senators on a tour of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba on Friday. Tillis was not included in an earlier list of attendees.