Frank Lucas: “40% of the winter wheat we raise in this country is…”

“Are your constituents telling you they're on board with tariffs of this scope scale? My constituents are holding their breath. 80% of the cotton we raise in this country plus is exported. 40% of the winter wheat we raise in this country is exported. All the hogs we raise in northwest Oklahoma get on ships to go to Asia. So these issues are very important to my constituents, but they also understand the status quo for the last three or four decades has worked against us.” (00:38–00:43)

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