{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnsons-butcher-block-act-and-year-round-e15-passes-house", "Johnson\u2019s Butcher Block Act and Year-Round E15 Passes the House", "2022-06-16", "2022", "2022-06", "Republican", "House", "SD", "Dusty Johnson", "J000301", "dustyjohnson.house.gov", "dustyjohnson", "https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson\u2019s (R-S.D.) Butcher Block Act and year-round E15 provisions passed the U.S. House.\n\nThe Butcher Block Act establishes a loan program at United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development for new and expanding meat processors and finances producer investment to drive competition within the meat packing industry. Additionally, it would allocate grants to entities to increase hiring and processing capacity. In July 2021, USDA administratively implemented the Butcher Block Act, and in May 2022, Johnson\u2019s Butcher Block Actpassed out of House Ag Committee unanimously.\n\nAlso included in the package was a provision implementing the year-round sale of E15. Current biofuels regulations only allow for E10, a 10 percent ethanol fuel blend, to be sold in the summer months. Authorizing year-round sales of E15, a 15 percent ethanol fuel blend, will allow higher ethanol content blend to be sold at the pump throughout the year.\n\n\u201cConsumers have been facing rising prices in the grocery store and at the pump for too long \u2013 this bill provides solutions to some of the problems America is facing,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cGetting the Butcher Block Act passed out of the House is the first step to increasing shackle space for ranchers to sell their products.\n\n\u201cI\u2019ve been fighting for year-round E15 since day one. E15 will unleash millions of gallons of fuel to the market and ease the pain at the pump that consumers are facing daily. Fair prices for producers and consumers will soften the burden of inflation.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nJohnson introduced the Butcher Block Act in June 2021 to expand processing capacity. Following the introduction of his legislation, in July 2021, USDA announced its intent to provide $500 million in grants to expand meat and poultry processing capacity.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:39:01Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnsons-butcher-block-act-and-year-round-e15-passes-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.0507792942225933, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}