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Representative Crawford talks agriculture, spending, healthcare

KASU | By Johnathan Reaves

Published January 8, 2018 at 8:59 AM CST

U.S. Representative Rick Crawford (R-AR)

In this Congressional interview, KASU's News Director Johnathan Reaves speaks with First District U.S. Representative Republican Rick Crawford. Crawford discusses President Trump's talk with the American Farm Bureau Federation, a new Farm Bill, what will be his first focus of the new year, and whether healthcare will be addressed this year. Click on the Listen button to hear the entire interview.

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Johnathan Reaves

Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former 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.

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