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House Agriculture Committee Republicans This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Mike Conaway highlights the importance of holding the administration accountable for disbursing funds for broadband projects under the stimulus bill.
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans Ranking Member Lucas blasted an Obama administration proposal to overhaul the regulation of futures markets. “It wasn’t the futures markets that caused the financial meltdown this country experienced a little over a year ago,” said Lucas. “Why is there a rush to change how futures markets are regulated?”
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WASHINGTON — Faced with the prospect of losing key oversight powers, members of the House Agriculture Committee and regulators on Tuesday blasted an Obama administration proposal to overhaul financial rules.
House Agriculture Committee Republicans
At an Agriculture Committee hearing today to review the discussion draft of the Financial Stability Improvement Act, Ranking Member Lucas reiterated his belief that the CFTC should not be stripped of it’s authority to regulate the futures markets. “Even if one can make a persuasive argument that the futures markets ne......ed more regulation, and if someone can, I haven’t heard it yet, no one can credibly argue that the Federal Reserve Board ought to be the primary regulator,” said Lucas in his opening statement.Read More
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Phil Roe highlights the flaws in H.R. 3962, the health care bill that the U.S. House of Representatives passed on Saturday 220-215.
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans
Today, Ranking Member Frank Lucas debated H.R. 2868, the Chemical and Drinking
Water Security Act of 2009, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
During the debate, Rep. Lucas argued that the bill would have a deep and
negative impact on agriculture, and would ultimately lead to a scenario where
input suppl...ies will be limited, costs will sky-rocket, and U.S. food security
and the livelihood of our farmers will be threatened.Read More
Water Security Act of 2009, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
During the debate, Rep. Lucas argued that the bill would have a deep and
negative impact on agriculture, and would ultimately lead to a scenario where
input suppl...ies will be limited, costs will sky-rocket, and U.S. food security
and the livelihood of our farmers will be threatened.Read More
House Agriculture Committee Republicans In a letter to his colleagues on Thursday, Ranking Member Lucas responded to a document prepared by the Office of Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) and the majority staff of the Committees of Energy and Commerce and Homeland Security that erroneously claims H.R. 2868, the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009, poses no threat to agriculture.
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans
A coalition of agriculture groups has sent a letter to Members of Congress urging them to vote against the Chemical and Drinking Water Security Act of 2009. Expected to come to the floor tomorrow, the bill would have a direct impact on farmers and ranchers who use fertilizers and other pesticides for agriculture produ...ction. “It no longer surprises me that the Democratic leadership is once again racing to impose more government mandates on our farmers, ranchers and small businesses without considering the economic impact of their actions,” said Ranking Member Lucas.Read More
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee are refusing to move forward on the consideration of cap and trade legislation unless the Environmental Protection Agency conducts an analysis of the bill. Staff aides to Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman of the Committee, cite the $140,000 price tag of a study on the multi-trillion dollar bill as the reason for their push back.
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Republicans on the Environment Committee refuse to participate in hearings on the climate bill.
House Agriculture Committee Republicans This week during The Ag Minute, guest host Rep. Bill Cassidy highlights the need for Congress to pass real health care reform that lowers costs, provides all Americans with access to quality care, and empowers patients.
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans
The cap and trade bill moving its way through the Senate faces a stark political reality. With states in the Midwest, South and Rocky Mountain West dependent on fossil fuels for energy, many senators are worried about the legislation’s impact on industry and consumers. "I think at the end of the day, the people who tur...n the switch on at home will be disadvantaged," Senator Ben Nelson, a Democrat from Nebraska, told CNBC on Friday.Read More
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The climate-change bill that has been moving slowly through the Senate will face a stark political reality when it emerges for committee debate on Tuesday: With Democrats deeply divided on the issue, unless some Republican lawmakers risk the backlash for signing on to the legislation, there is al...
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During a Senate hearing on Thursday, American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman said that cap and trade would result in higher fuel, fertilizer and energy costs to farmers and ranchers. Stallman said these cost increases would ultimately be borne by consumers. “The impacts of the legislation go far beyond... just the farm and ranch community,” said Stallman. “Families will be hit hard with higher energy costs under any cap-and-trade program, an amount that could total up to $200 billion a year for American taxpayers.”Read More
Oklahoma Farm Report - Senate Climate Change Bill Fails Farmers- So Says Bob Stallman of American Fa
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans During a Senate hearing on Tuesday to review the Kerry-Boxer cap and trade bill, Senator Max Baucus, a Democrat from Montana, said he has “serious reservations” with the legislation. “I have some concerns about the overall direction of the bill,” said Baucus. As proposed, the bill risks moving legislators “further away from that achievable consensus on common-sense climate-change [legislation],” he added.
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Sen. Max Baucus voiced serious reservations about a climate bill unveiled by Democratic colleagues, signaling trouble for the measure.
House Agriculture Committee Republicans In his weekly radio address, The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Lucas encourages Congress to reduce the burdens on small businesses, not pile on more.
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans In a Washington Times op-ed, Senators Hutchison and Bond sound the alarm on the negative effects cap and trade legislation will have on America’s heartland. “Our nation’s farmers and ranchers, who are tasked with producing high-quality goods for much of the world, will be harmed by Waxman-Markey’s $2 trillion tax on gasoline and $1.3 trillion tax on diesel fuel,” wrote Hutchison and Bond.
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House Agriculture Committee Republicans In his weekly radio address, The Ag Minute, Ranking Member Lucas highlights recent newspaper reports that describe the negative impact of a cap and trade system on rural economies and small communities.
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