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The New Chairman of the House Ag Committee, Frank Lucas, Addresses Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association
Sun, 12 Dec 2010 6:47:28 CST
The incoming Chairman of the House Ag Committee, Oklahoma Third District Congressman Frank Lucas, told the Oklahoma Wheat Growers Association on Saturday afternoon that it was time for him to roll up his sleeves and get to work as the start of 112th Congress nears.
So that's what he did- and then spent the next several minutes talking about his plans for the House Agriculture Committeefor the next two years. While he does not know the exact makeup of his committee as of yet- he told the wheat producers that he was still trying to decide if there would be five or six subcommittees this coming year- he did indicate that there will be a learning curve for the almost 100 new members of Congress who will be sworn in the first week of January. Lucas says that he will use much of 2011 to educate those newer members of the House Ag Committee about the many different aspects of the 2008 Farm Law to prepare them to write in a bi-parisan way the 2012 farm bill early that year.
The Congressman adds that he thinks that if Congress can lay a new farm bill on the desk of President Barrack Obama the summer of 2012- he will almost certainly sign up in the months leading up to his name being on the ballot that November.
You can hear all of his comments from the Express Events Center in Oklahoma City- just click on the LISTEN BAR below.
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