Frank Lucas

Having a full-time Director is a critically important thing.

Bottom line is of course if success comes and we're not a part of it, then we'll become a second-class economic power.

The actual level of $75 million is below our obligation.

I'm hopeful that we can address that.

These major cuts could be, you know, very bad for both our national security and our energy future.

I believe that this is an area we should be strongly investing in.

While the appearance of agenda-driven manipulation is troubling on its own, it's even more so when considering that IARC's final conclusion is not only on the fringe of the scientific world but is completely and totally by itself.

This has caused IARC to reach conclusions that not only create unnecessary fear in people, but in some cases causes IARC to reach conclusions that are contradictions to the best available science.

I look forward to hearing from our panel of expert witnesses this morning and want to thank them for their voluntary appearance before this Committee.

Section 199A stands to destroy the relationships we have built over the past century.

Oklahoma just had the largest cotton crop harvested since 1933.

The nomination of our state Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Northey, to be Under Secretary of Farm Production and Conservation in your Department is very important to me.

More babies and less welfare, but that is a long-term plan.

I want to say we have all of the skin in the future for us is Crew Dragon and Falcon 9.

You produce the scientists who fuel both higher education, research, and the private industry, correct?

We've talked earlier about foot and mouth, or as my grandfather called it, hoof and mouth, the most amazing, viciously aggressive virus that we've kept out of the country for 88 years.

The investments we make, which are sometimes not so exciting in the eyes of the appropriators, are very necessary.

I think it's worth noting the wondrous system that we have in the United States.

I always remind my constituents in town meetings, no matter what anyone says at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, we write the laws.

One of the tendencies whether it's in Congress or the Executive Branch... is, sometimes if we don't want the answer, we don't ask the question.

We should be encouraging them. Instead of giving them subsidies, we could give them tax breaks.

It's time for us to impress the world again, the young people of the world and their own young people.

Nothing can be more important than protecting our natural resources, the lives of our fellow citizens, our domesticated livestock, and wildlife too.

It is not all about the structures. You talked about in Georgia, it is about managing the land above that.

We have been blessed that we had some Federal dollars for rehab in Oklahoma, thanks to Congressman Lucas, in the 2014 Farm Bill.