- Agriculture As the daughter of a seventh generation farm family, who has walked rice levies and scouted cotton Blanche Lincoln has always appreciated the dramatic impact of agriculture on the Arkansas economy. She has remained a long-time champion for Arkansas's agriculture industry because it accounts for more than 270,000 jobs and more than $9 billion in wages and salaries for Arkansas working families. Read More »
- Children's Health As a mom, Blanche Lincoln knows how legislation directly affects children and their families. That's why she's fighting to end childhood hunger, vastly improve child nutrition, expand access to health care for children and expectant mothers and raise awareness on the plight of missing and exploited children. As Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, the committee unanimously approved her Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. It is the most ambitious child nutrition re-authorization in history. Read More »
- Education Blanche Lincoln understands that education is a national investment in our most precious resource: our children. The knowledge and training that we provide them today are the tools that they will carry with them for the rest of their lives. That's why she's fought to reduce class sizes, hire more teachers and expand Head Start and after school programs. For her efforts on behalf of education, Senator Lincoln has received consistently high marks from the National Education Association.Read More »
- Energy & Environment Senator Lincoln lead efforts in Congress to promote rural America as a leader in the development of renewable energy technologies that will help stimulate the rural economy, reduce America's dependence on foreign oil and preserve our environment for future generations. She is proposing new tax incentives to utilize the unique natural resources that rural America has to offer as sources of renewable energy.Read More »
- Health Care Senator Blanche Lincoln has been a leader on health care reform throughout her public service career. In every Congress since 2004, she has introduced a plan to make health care more affordable for Arkansas’s small businesses. In fact, the foundation of the health reform package passed that recently became law is based on her plan of creating health care exchanges where small businesses, their employees, the self-employed and their families can shop for quality, affordable health insurance plans.Read More »
- Rural Development During her childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River in Helena, AR, Senator Lincoln grew to cherish the values of rural Arkansas: honesty, hard work, faith and independence. Today, she is a leader in the U.S. Senate on policies that directly affect more than 50 million people who call rural America home.Read More »
- Second Amendment Rights As a seventh generation Arkansan, Blanche Lincoln understands the importance of our Second Amendment rights to own and bear arms. That's why she fully supports and defends this constitutional freedom. Growing up in Helena, Senator Lincoln spent many early winter mornings in a duck blind with her father and brother. Today, she and her husband have raised their twin boys with the proper respect for hunting and owning firearms so they will enjoy a lifetime of on of Arkansas's greatest treasures. Read More »
- Seniors In the U.S. Senate, Blanche Lincoln is working to ensure the long term solvency of Social Security and Medicare, the most successful social and health insurance programs in the world. As a member of the Senate Finance Committee with jurisdiction over Medicare, Social Security and long-term health care financing and the Senate Special Committee on Aging, she is able to positively affect policies that directly affect America's growing senior population. Read More »
- Veterans and National Guard Senator Lincoln recognizes that rural America has committed a disproportionate share of soldiers to the war effort against terrorism. She believes that America should spare no expense when it comes to providing our soldiers with their basic needs when they return home from the battlefield. Senator Lincoln is fighting to expand access to health care for all veterans and to ensure that members of the Guard and Reserve receive equitable treatment now that their services are so fundamental to the war effort.Read More »