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LUBBOCK — U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington is in his district for a monthlong recess, and the Lubbock Republican sat down with A-J Media at his downtown office in between a farm bill listening session in San Angelo and a tour of Dyess Air Force Base with House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon. In the interview, Arrington said he still believes the Republicans in Congress... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington brought House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry to Dyess Air Force Base in Abilene on Thursday. “With West Texas competing to base the next generation of bombers, having our neighbor and Chairman to the north come to town was a big deal,” Arrington, a Lubbock Republican whose U.S. House District 19 also covers Abilene, said in a statement Thursday afternoon... Read more »

The guests were two members of Congress but it was 6-year-old Nathan Arrington who stole the show Thursday afternoon at Dyess Air Force Base. His father, U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington, invited fellow Republican and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Mac Thornberry, to Abilene for an August recess visit. While the two congressmen talked to airmen and learned more about their jobs and their... Read more »

U.S. Rep. Jodey Arrington said he believes the Trump administration and the majority of Congress ‘get’ agriculture. So much so that he’s confident the 2018 Farm Bill will be done on time and looked at favorably. Arrington, a member of the House Agriculture Committee, was back in Lubbock on Wednesday after spending Tuesday in San Angelo for a farm bill listening session with Chairman Mike Conaway a... Read more »