{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://womack.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=359874", "169 Bipartisan Members Urge EPA to Lower RFS", "2013-10-31", "2013", "2013-10", "Republican", "House", "AR", "Steve Womack", "W000809", "womack.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Reps. Steve Womack (AR-3), Bob Goodlatte (VA-6), Jim Costa (CA-16), and Peter Welch (VT-AL) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy urging her to consider a fair and meaningful adjustment to the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). \u00a0In total, 169 bipartisan Members of Congress signed the letter:\nRep. Steve Womack (AR-3): \u201cThe RFS is unrealistic, and the EPA knows it.\u00a0 It is time for the agency to exercise its authority and provide immediate and much-needed relief to American consumers and our economy by adjusting the RFS.\u201d\nRep. Bob Goodlatte (VA-6): \u201cWhether it\u2019s increasing amounts of ethanol in fuel or higher food and feed prices, the RFS continues to negatively impact American consumers and the economy.\u00a0 The demands of the current RFS are unrealistic and are causing great uncertainty.\u00a0 As the blendwall approaches, it is clear that this flawed policy is not working.\u00a0 The growing support from Members of Congress from across the nation and a diverse coalition of outside groups makes it clear that we must consider real legislative reforms to this mandate.\u00a0 In the meantime, I urge Administrator McCarthy to take immediate action to provide much needed relief from the RFS.\u201d\u00a0\nRep. Peter Welch (VT-AL): \u201cWhile well-intentioned, the federal ethanol mandate is inflicting significant economic harm on families by driving up food prices, on dairy farmers by driving up\u00a0feed prices, and on homeowners and outdoorsmen by ruining small engines.\u00a0 Administrator McCarthy has at her fingertips the authority to push the pause button so that Congress can reevaluate this misguided policy before more harm is done. \u00a0She should do so immediately.\u201d\nFull text of the letter can be found here.\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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://womack.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=359874"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5789789613336325, "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"}