MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights his concerns about Brazil's retaliation efforts aimed at U.S. exports, and how this measure will impact American agriculture. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "Brazil recently announced measures that would jeopardize future tr... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights the need to stop the regulatory expansion of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Today, Rep. Lucas joined more than 80 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives and introduced a resolution of disapproval, which would block the EPA from regula... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov An editorial from Ranking Member Frank Lucas about the importance of trade to both agriculture and our overall economy was published today in a special agriculture section of The Hill. In the editorial, Lucas explains that three pending free trade agreements await congressional approval and President Obama should push for the... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights how Congress should start over with a health care bill that lowers costs and increases access to affordable, high-quality care. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "The President has unveiled a new plan for health care reform. An... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights how President Obama's budget proposal is fiscally irresponsible. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "The President's budget proposal is in and it's unbelievable. "For the second year in a row, the Obama budget proposes record-le... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights how our government should work for the people, by the people. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "We have an expression in Oklahoma that says ‘there's a fine line between doing things for people and doing things to people.' "My ... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights the need for the agriculture community to be fully engaged in the political process and stay alert on the issue of cap and trade. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "Last week, Bob Stallman, the president of the American Farm Bu... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov This week during The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Frank Lucas highlights the need for President Obama to listen to the American people as he enters into the second year of his administration. Click here to listen to The Ag Minute. The transcript is below. "One year has passed since President Obama moved into the White House unde... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, U.S. Representative Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) , Ranking Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, respectively, sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson requesting the agency correct the Forest and Agriculture Sector Optimi... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, U.S. Representative Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) , Ranking Members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, respectively, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding his recent remarks on the Department's climate change legislation anal... Read more »
