Honorable Blanche Lincoln
United States Senator, Arkansas, Democrat
Senator Lincoln was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1992 to 1996. She chairs the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and also sits on the following committees: Finance, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy, Energy, and Natural Resources; and the Special Committee on Aging. The following is from the August, 5, 2010, Senate floor debate on S. 3307, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. For the past two weeks, I have come to the floor of the Senate to speak about the critical…
