Blanche Lincoln

Creating jobs, putting our economy back on the right track, is my number one priority.

please, please, please, help us in our small communities to create an environment, a community, you know, the economics where our children will want to stay there and not leave.

Providing accessible, affordable broadband to rural communities is one of my top priorities.

It is absolutely critical that this Committee focus on providing our rural communities with the tools they need to strengthen and grow their economies.

We should never, and we should be doing everything we can to ensure that all Americans enjoy safe, clean water.

As Chairman of this Committee, I will continue to be a strong advocate for supporting the thousands of jobs and hundreds of rural small businesses in Arkansas that production agriculture provides.

Homeownership is essential to building economic wealth in a community as well as safety, and we must do more to help Arkansas families achieve the dream of owning their own home.

Darlin', we cannot circle our wagons and just sell our widgets, gadgets, and hamburgers to each other. It is going to be a global economy, and we have got to be engaged in it.

One of the big issues that I try to spearhead whenever I get the opportunity is financial literacy.

Building our economy in this country is critical and making sure that the rest of our Nation understands the important role that rural America has to play in that.

I wish that we could make it mandatory that everybody that was going into bankruptcy had to go through counseling first.

Over the last decade, we have seen deregulation sweep over America in a way that has simply devastated our economy.

Business as usual is simply not acceptable. Fundamental financial market oversight reforms must pass.

Financial market oversight reform is, quite simply, the single most important factor in our long-term economic recovery.

no student should have to go through that stigmatizing process in order not to go hungry.

Despite significant policy challenges that we have faced over the years, and even differences of opinion now and again, this Committee has always pulled together and risen to the occasion.

While it is not necessarily my preference to move on cap-and-trade legislation in the Senate this year, if the Senate is going to move on climate change legislation in the future, certainly the regulation of carbon markets is something…

We all recognize that cap and trade would really touch nearly every aspect of our lives, and that is especially true for agriculture.

The purpose of these hearings and future hearings, I hope, is really to flesh out the costs and the benefits of a cap and trade bill for agriculture.

Should he be confirmed, Mr. Chairman, Pearlie's experience, his wisdom, his passion and his background will be an invaluable asset in confronting those challenges head on.

I want to again commend you and all the groups involved in this bill for working together on how we can really do great improvements in efficiency for products and benefit both our environment as well as our consumers.

I think we can all agree that energy efficiency is probably the most cost effective way we can decrease our energy consumption.

Retirement security is not just a personal issue; it’s a national priority.

Do you agree that promoting biofuels has the potential to play a significant role in a Federal climate change strategy in addressing our Nation's carbon footprint?