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Trump Hits a Home Run for Agriculture with Scott Pruitt Nomination - But will Dems Block the Plate?
Wed, 04 Jan 2017 15:05:10 CST
President-elect Donald Trump has proven he has a knack for turning heads this year. Even after his dramatic campaign, Trump's recent actions have still managed to conjure strong emotions from different interest groups. One of his latest controversies - nominating Oklahoma's Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. National Cattlemen's Beef Association's Vice President of Governmental Affairs Colin Woodall told Radio Oklahoma Ag Network Farm Director Ron Hays in a recent conversation, this move is a "home run" in his book.
"We're actually excited about a lot of the names we have seen including Scott Pruitt as EPA Head," Woodall said. "We know that he is going to bring probably a much different approach than what we have seen for quite some time and that's spanning multiple administrations."
Woodall says he and his colleagues are excited about this fresh opportunity to work with an ag-friendly EPA, to roll back many of the environmental rules and regulations the agency passed over the last eight years that many consider to be bold measures of governmental overreach, such as the Waters of the United States rule.
Still, there are hoops that must be jumped through before Pruitt can officially take the reins. Congress must first approve all of Trump's nominees before they can be formally installed to their appointed positions. Pruitt has a long track record of fighting the Obama administration on environmental policy and Woodall says he expects the Democrats on his hearing committee will not make it easy for him.
"They're absolutely going to throw up every kind of road block out there," Woodall predicted. "He has done a lot of good things for agriculture and that's one thing we are all going to have to do is link arms and get behind him, because we expect that his nomination hearing will be a hairy one."
Listen to Hays and Woodall discuss Scott Pruitt's nomination to head the EPA, on today's Beef Buzz.
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