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Committee on Agriculture Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) gave these remarks during his weekly radio address, The Ag Minute.

President Obama recently signed a new executive order establishing the White House Rural Council to quote 'strengthen rural communities' and focus on job creation and economic development.
 
But, haven’t we heard this before? Back when then Senator Obama was running for President, he pledged to have a rural summit in Iowa and to take action on a rural agenda in the first 100 days of office.

To date, there has been no rural summit.  No rural agenda.

Then in the summer of 2009, President Obama directed members of his cabinet to conduct a listening tour of rural America. Only a few months ago, the EPA Administrator and USDA Secretary held their own listening tour across American farms.

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