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Rep. Luetkemeyer: EPA’s Job-Killing Regulations Target Rural America
Oct 8, 2010 -
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) appears bent on destroying rural America. The EPA and Majority party’s attempt to regulate everything from mud-puddles to dust is a massive power grab that threatens the livelihoods of our family farmers, small businesses, and rural communities. No one cares...
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Forum Examines Impact of Job-Killing EPA Regulations on Rural America
Sep 29, 2010 -
Representatives Frank Lucas (R-OK), Sam Graves (R-MO), and Doc Hastings (R-WA), Co-Chairs of the Rural America Solutions Group, hosted a forum today entitled, “The EPA’s Assault on Rural America: How New Regulations and Proposed Legislation are Stifling Job Creation and Economic Growth.” Experts fro...
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Luetkemeyer Highlights Concerns of EPA’s Ongoing Assault on Rural America
Sep 29, 2010 -
U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) and members of the Rural America Solutions Group today participated in a forum that focused on the destructive job-killing policies of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Democratic leadership in Congress. The EPA’s Assault on Rural America: How New Regu...
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Subcommittee Presses EPA Official on Impact of Potential Regulations on Energy Costs, Small Businesses
Jul 22, 2010 -
Today, the House Committee on Small Business’ Subcommittee on Rural Development, Entrepreneurship and Trade held a hearing entitled “Coal Combustion Byproducts: Potential Impact of a Hazardous Waste Designation on Small Businesses in the Recycling Industry.” The hearing examined the potential impact...
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Ranking Members Graves, Hastings and Lucas in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Rural America Is In The Crosshairs
Jun 3, 2010 -
By Rep. Doc Hastings (R-WA), Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO); Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be in Hillsboro, MO to host a “National Summit of Rural America” on behalf of the Obama Administration. As Co-Chairs of the Rural Ameri...
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Co-Chairs of Rural America Solutions Group Urge Obama to Listen to Rural Americans, Abandon Job Killing Policies
Jun 3, 2010 -
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack traveled to Hillsboro, MO today to host a long overdue “National Summit of Rural America” on behalf of the Obama Administration. As Co-Chairs of the Rural America Solutions Group, Representatives Frank Lucas (R-OK), Sam Graves (R-MO) and Doc Hastings (R-WA), ha...
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Graves Urges Commitment to Expanded Broadband Infrastructure in Rural Communities
May 12, 2010 -
At today’s House Small Business Committee hearing on the impact that broadband services have on small businesses, the economy and job creation, Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) expressed concern about the lack of broadband infrastructure in rural America. Ranking Member Graves said, “The Internet an...
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KTEN Online: Clean Water Act--Will the Federal Gov. have access to your water?
Apr 30, 2010 -
By Christina Lusby, KTEN Online It's a bill some claim could take away private property rights of land owners. A word change in the 1972 Clean Water Act could grant Federal access to small bodies of water such as small streams and creeks. The Clean Water Act has helped keep drinking water in the Uni...
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Hannibal Courier Post: Cap-and-trade could be sore spot on Obama visit
Apr 27, 2010 -
By Brent Engel, Hannibal Courier-Post President Barack Obama likely will get an earful about cap-and-trade during his visit to the Tri-States. Cap-and-trade is a system of regulating pollution. The federal government would limit the amount of emissions that companies, manufacturers and utilities cou...
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Luetkemeyer: President Should Discuss Real Impacts of Cap-and-Tax on Small Business, Farms
Apr 26, 2010 -
As a longtime opponent of the President’s national energy tax, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO-9) today said he was hopeful the President this week would address the serious concerns of family farmers and small businesses in the 9th District about the the devastating impacts of higher energy costs ...
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