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Representative Crawford takes listener questions, talks travel ban and funding

U.S. Representative Rick Crawford (R-AR)
Talk Business & Politics

In this congressional interview, KASU News Director Johnathan Reaves asks Congressman Rick Crawford listener questions about President Trump's executive order concerning travel bans, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act and his thoughts on government funding of the arts, humanities and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting.  He was also asked about a new farm bill and regulations.  Click on the Listen button to hear the interview.  

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.