Issue Position: Climate Change

Issue Position

While climate change regulation will have a major impact on almost every American industry, regulating Greenhouse Gasses will be especially damaging for our farmers and rural communities. Proposals being considered in Washington today would cause the prices of fertilizer and fuel to increase dramatically, thereby putting Oklahoma farmers and the rural communities surrounding them in a precarious financial position. Furthermore, this unnecessary move would decrease America's competitiveness in international markets. Though it is unlikely that Congress will enact climate change legislation soon, it is very possible that the Obama administration will bypass Congress and attempt to regulate greenhouse gasses by administrative fiat. This is why I have co-sponsored H.R. 391, which would prohibit the administration from regulating greenhouse gases. Rest assured, I will work tirelessly to ensure that our farms and rural communities are not placed at a disadvantage by regulating climate change.

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