Jeff Flake | Congressman Arizona’s Sixth District

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  • Congressman Flake Introduces Phantom Fuel Reform Act
    Jun 29, 2012  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today introduced the Phantom Fuel Reform Act (H.R. 6047) to reform an outrageous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation that millions of dollars each year to the cost of energy production. Under current law and bas... More
  • Congressman Flake Criticizes Obama Administration Decision to Ban New Uranium Mining Claims in Northern Arizona
    Jan 9, 2012  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to implement a 20-year ban on new mining claims on 1 million acres of federal land outside of Grand Canyon National park in an area known as the Arizona Strip. In 2009, Dep... More
  • Congressman Flake Organizes Bipartisan Letter Urging House Leaders to Let Ethanol Subsidies Expire
    Dec 13, 2011  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, along with 73 House Members, sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi urging them to resist calls to continue, expand, or create new ethanol subsidies in any of the remaining legislative proposa... More
  • Congressman Flake Praises House Passage of Southeast Arizona Land Transfer Jobs Bill
    Oct 26, 2011  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today praised the House passage of H.R. 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act of 2011, which facilitates the development of an underground copper mine near Superior, Arizona for the largest undevelop... More
  • Congressman Flake: Uranium Mining in Northern Arizona Could Create Jobs and Stimulate Local Economy
    Oct 12, 2011  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today with Congressman Trent Franks (AZ-02) introduced in the House the Northern Arizona Mining Continuity Act of 2011, which will prohibit the U.S. Department of the Interior from implementing a 20-year withdrawal of nearly... More
  • Congressman Flake Adds Language to Interior Spending Bill to Prevent Uranium Mining Moratorium in Northern Arizona
    Jul 7, 2011  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today included language in the House Interior Appropriations bill that would prevent the Obama Administration from withdrawing nearly one million acres of public and National Forest System lands north and south of the Grand ... More
  • Congressmen Flake and Crowley Call for Open Legislative Process When Considering Upcoming Ethanol Legislation
    May 17, 2011  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, and Democratic Congressman Joseph Crowley, who represents New York’s Seventh District, today, along with Congressmen Womack, Lance, and Boren and 68 other Members of Congress, sent a letter to Speaker Boehner and Minority Le... More
  • Congressman Flake Pans USDA Suggestion of Ethanol Bailout
    Oct 22, 2008  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today panned a suggestion by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it might bail out ethanol producers hurt by corn prices. “The federal government’s ethanol policies have driven up the price of corn,” said Flake. “But rat... More
  • Congressman Flake Introduces Legislation to Reform Ethanol Incentives
    Apr 30, 2008  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, has introduced legislation to curtail incentives Congress has created for ethanol production. Renewable fuels standards, tax credits for ethanol producers, and protection from international competition through prohibitive im... More
  • Congressman Flake Urges President to Waive Renewable Fuels Mandate
    Apr 28, 2008  - Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona’s Sixth District, today sent President Bush a letter that urged him to waive the renewable fuels mandate contained in last year’s energy bill. The energy bill requires the U.S. to produce nine billion gallons of fuel from renewable sources th... More