Blanche Lincoln

Considering and approving the President's nominees is a fundamental constitutional obligation of the Senate.

As a farmer's daughter I learned first-hand from farmers and ranchers and foresters who are the best stewards of our land.

if we do not like importing oil we are really not going to like importing our food.

It is truly the uncertainty and unpredictability that comes out of Washington that is going to fail us in trying to put our economy back on track and put people back to work if we do not provide a greater certainty to growers.

I am going to make no apologies whatsoever for standing up for the hard-working farm families across this country.

The Russian market is worth $100 million annually to Arkansas producers, and the decision to lift the ban will help save 89,000 poultry jobs that are critical to Arkansas's economy.

Enacting this FTA would not only boost U.S. exports by $1.1 billion annually, creating about 10,000 jobs.

If we are serious about promoting exports, the President should submit all three and press Congress for their immediate approval.

I applaud this commitment and believe that U.S. agriculture can truly lead the way.

Relaxing trade restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba represents a tremendous opportunity to grow our economy.

Everyone should agree that 50 years of a failed policy is unlikely to yield a different result than it already has.

Our Nation's farmers and ranchers need to know that they will never have to apologize to this chairman or to this committee for the hard work that they do.

The President's comments have been that we can create jobs by increasing exports, and I hope that we will work with the Administration to see those happen.

These Farm Bill deliberations should not be a Washington command and control top-to-bottom approach to policy.

While I think it's clear to many of us that domestic oil production is critical to our national security, so is the safety of our domestic oil production.

Senator Blanche Lincoln's soon-to-be-introduced legislation... would stop this, and treat military retiree survivors the same way as disabled veteran survivors.

I do believe that particularly in this day and age with the economic circumstances we find ourselves in, that the duplicative regulation is just not appropriate.

I'm extremely concerned about the decision, and it came as a great shock to our constituents in Arkansas.

I visited with a constituent yesterday, good Democrat, small business owner, who is extremely frustrated; extremely frustrated because there was a lack of certainty and predictability from his government for him to be able to run his…

we absolutely must reform our financial markets and our regulatory system.

I believe it is time that we return to those fundamental characteristics of our true national identity of hard work, honesty, and fair dealing.

We are not a Nation of spendthrifts or fraudsters or sharp dealers.

What I took away from all of these conversations was that business as usual is simply not acceptable anymore.

We still know that the best place to travel to is our Mom's kitchen table.