MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Randy Neugebauer discusses how every American farmer, family, and small business owner can expect automatic tax increases on January 1 unless the Democratic leadership takes up this issue in Congress and considers legislation that would extend current tax rates. Rep. Neugebauer ... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Ranking Member Frank Lucas issued the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced details regarding disaster assistance funding. "This disaster program clearly picks winners and losers with little justification. Rahm Emanuel and his Chicago-style politics have obviously overridden any c... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas discusses how the Democratic leadership is proposing to spend more money and create yet another federal program to do the job of other existing federal programs. This week the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on H.R. 4785, the Rural Energy Savings Pro... Read more »
This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. John Shimkus, discusses how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering a ban on the use of antibiotics in farm animals and how such a practice would negatively impact public health and American farm jobs. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "Recently, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health – on which I am... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Cynthia Lummis, discusses how the Obama administration is considering more impractical regulations for American farmers. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reviewing the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM). The Second Draft Policy... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Mike Conaway, discusses how the Obama administration's method of spending Americans' hard-earned money without oversight or accountability is costing rural America opportunities for economic growth. Rep. Conaway explains the latest example of this method is with the rural broadb... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, discusses how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has initiated an unprecedented re-review of a critically important pesticide, which threatens its continued availability to farmers and ranchers. Atrazine is a pesticide that has been used safely and eff... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov An op-ed in The New York Times today highlights concerns that many in the agriculture community have about the far-reaching impact of the Dodd-Frank Act. Of particular concern is how the law's derivatives language will affect the way farmers and ranchers manage risk. Producers depend on the use of derivatives to protect them ... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Member Frank Lucas, along with six of his colleagues on the House Agriculture Committee, introduced a bill (H.R. 6087), which clarifies that the use of a pesticide consistent with its registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) should not be subject to a costly, redundant,... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Adrian Smith, discusses how President Obama's new health care law negatively affects farmers, ranchers, and small businesses. Section 9006 of the law requires that all businesses file a 1099 with the Internal Revenue Service for every vendor with which it has more than $600 in t... Read more »
