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Lampson’s campaigning spans town hall meetings, convention center announcements
By AUDREY M. MARKS
With less than 11 weeks until November’s election, U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson isn’t focused on a schedule of heavy campaigning to keep his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Instead the Democrat from Stafford is traveling across the 22nd Congressional District holding town hall meetings and touting a bipartisan energy plan that awaits Congress when they return from recess after Labor Day.
Lampson said he’s operating on the theory that “good policy makes good politics.”
Lampson is using his break from the beltway to tout his accomplishments with groups that appreciate it the most.
Tuesday the topic was gun rights and ownership with nearly a dozen constituents at Sugar Land’s Community Center.
Lampson applauded the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, to expand gun ownership rights to members of the nation’s capital.
In past elections, Lampson has enjoyed an endorsement from the National Rifle Association.
The firearm rights advocacy group has consistently given Lampson’s voting record on second amendment issues an “A” rating.
“Congressman Lampson has been a champion for gun owners not only here in Texas, but all over America for an awful long time,” said Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action.
While residents in attendance were eager to know more about gun rights as they related to state jurisdiction, Lampson wrangled their attention when he described the energy plan drafted in a non-partisan manner.
For the last several weeks Lampson has talked with great excitement over the possibility of off-shore drilling and renewable energy legislation that could be voted on.
Lampson was the first Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives to propose drilling in restricted areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Outer Continental Shelf.
In July a group of Republicans and Democrats, led by U.S. Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, and John Peterson, R-Penn., met together to draft a bill that took key components from both sides of the aisle.
The bill has garnered the support of more than 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Most recently the American Trucking Association has thrown their support behind the energy plan.
On Thursday, Lampson and truck association members and drivers met at the Georoge R. Brown Convention Center to announce their support.
Tony Sifford, a professional driver for FedEx Ground, spoke about high gas prices are having a bigger impact than just for consumers at the pump.
According to a release from Lampson’s office a gallon of diesel fuel cost less than $2.50 a gallon in January 2007, and in the last week diesel costs have hovered close to $5.
Sifford told those assembled that the gas prices get passed down to the increased cost of shipping to the increased cost of goods.
“Like many people in Texas the members of the American Trucking Association have been hit hard by the rising oil prices,” Lampson said in a statement. “I have a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach to this problem that will provide results in the short-term and create sustainable solutions for our future.”
Instead the Democrat from Stafford is traveling across the 22nd Congressional District holding town hall meetings and touting a bipartisan energy plan that awaits Congress when they return from recess after Labor Day.
Lampson said he’s operating on the theory that “good policy makes good politics.”
Lampson is using his break from the beltway to tout his accomplishments with groups that appreciate it the most.
Tuesday the topic was gun rights and ownership with nearly a dozen constituents at Sugar Land’s Community Center.
Lampson applauded the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the District of Columbia v. Heller case, to expand gun ownership rights to members of the nation’s capital.
In past elections, Lampson has enjoyed an endorsement from the National Rifle Association.
The firearm rights advocacy group has consistently given Lampson’s voting record on second amendment issues an “A” rating.
“Congressman Lampson has been a champion for gun owners not only here in Texas, but all over America for an awful long time,” said Chris Cox, executive director of the National Rifle Association's Institute for Legislative Action.
While residents in attendance were eager to know more about gun rights as they related to state jurisdiction, Lampson wrangled their attention when he described the energy plan drafted in a non-partisan manner.
For the last several weeks Lampson has talked with great excitement over the possibility of off-shore drilling and renewable energy legislation that could be voted on.
Lampson was the first Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives to propose drilling in restricted areas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Outer Continental Shelf.
In July a group of Republicans and Democrats, led by U.S. Reps. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, and John Peterson, R-Penn., met together to draft a bill that took key components from both sides of the aisle.
The bill has garnered the support of more than 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Most recently the American Trucking Association has thrown their support behind the energy plan.
On Thursday, Lampson and truck association members and drivers met at the Georoge R. Brown Convention Center to announce their support.
Tony Sifford, a professional driver for FedEx Ground, spoke about high gas prices are having a bigger impact than just for consumers at the pump.
According to a release from Lampson’s office a gallon of diesel fuel cost less than $2.50 a gallon in January 2007, and in the last week diesel costs have hovered close to $5.
Sifford told those assembled that the gas prices get passed down to the increased cost of shipping to the increased cost of goods.
“Like many people in Texas the members of the American Trucking Association have been hit hard by the rising oil prices,” Lampson said in a statement. “I have a comprehensive, multi-faceted approach to this problem that will provide results in the short-term and create sustainable solutions for our future.”
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