In The News
The House Agriculture Committee last week introduced a bill to change provisions in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that are “limiting the potential for clean, homegrown renewable biofuels to meet our nation’s energy needs.”
U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas says the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) — also known as card check legislation — will be damaging to America’s farmers and ranchers and could have a bad effect rural economies.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has yet to take a position on which U.S. agency should oversee credit derivatives, which have fallen through regulatory cracks and been blamed for wreaking havoc on the financial system.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Frank Lucas lashed out Wednesday at President Barack Obama’s administration, saying it had been the most unfriendly one to farmers and ranchers in recent history.
WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill on Wednesday to allow federal prosecution of more "hate” crimes. All five of Oklahoma’s House members opposed it.
A leading group of House Republicans on Thursday announced the creation of a new task force to focus exclusively on issues affecting rural America.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, a benchmark reached today, haven’t made him any more popular in Oklahoma than when he lost every county there in November, according to the state’s mostly Republican congressional delegation.
WASHINGTON – Today, Ranking Member Frank Lucas issued the following statement to members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasting at their annual Washington Watch event.
“People are uneasy and maybe a little angry.”
That was Rep. Dan Boren’s observation about the mood of people in his eastern Oklahoma congressional district.
A couple of hours after he made that comment, Sen. Tom Coburn told me this: