MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Ranking Member Frank Lucas issued the following statement after President Obama's Oval Office address on the BP oil spill. "I am disappointed, though not surprised, that President Obama is trying to use the Gulf oil spill crisis to push his disastrous cap and tax policy. The widening environmental crisis in the Gulf is a trag... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Bob Goodlatte of Virginia discusses H.R. 5509, the Chesapeake Bay Program Reauthorization and Improvement Act. It is a bill he recently introduced that will protect the health of the Chesapeake Bay while also ensuring the strength and vitality of our family farms and rural commu... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Member Frank Lucas issued the following statement on being named to the Conference Committee that will reconcile the financial reform bill. The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4173 last December. The U.S. Senate passed its own version on May 20. "This legislation will impact every corner of our econom... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Candice Miller of Michigan discusses H.R. 5426, a bill she recently introduced that would direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to change its designation of milk as an environmental hazard. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA instituted a program called the Oil Spill P... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled to Hillsboro, MO today to host a long overdue “National Summit of Rural America” on behalf of the Obama Administration. As Co-Chairs of the Rural America Solutions Group, Representatives Frank Lucas (R-OK), Sam Graves (R-MO) and Doc Hastings (R-WA), have each released a statemen... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Rep. Candice Miller introduced legislation today that would prohibit the enforcement of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that treat milk the same as oil. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Frank Lucas, a cosponsor of the legislation, issued the following statement. “This is a common sense bill that wi... 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 the introduction of America Speaking Out, an effort by House Republicans to engage the American people in the process of building a policy agenda for America. Through America Speaking Out, the American people will be given a voice in setting the priorities f... Read more »
This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas discusses the Kerry-Lieberman cap and tax bill introduced in the Senate last week, and the efforts of the Obama Administration to implement a job-killing cap and tax program whether Congress passes a bill or not. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman introduced their much ant... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Jean Schmidt, member of the House Agriculture Committee, discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) agenda and how it could harm the entire agriculture industry. Rep. Schmidt and her Republican colleagues on the Agriculture Committee sent a letter to the EPA expressin... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), Agriculture Ranking Member Frank Lucas (R-OK) and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statements on the third anniversary of the bipartisan May 10 agreement as well as a report showing the harm suffered by American agr... Read more »
