{"id":22629,"date":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-leadership-divided-on-ethanol-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:53","slug":"house-gop-leadership-divided-on-ethanol-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-gop-leadership-divided-on-ethanol-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP leadership divided on ethanol vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House GOP leaders will be divided on a vote Wednesday for a bill allowing year-round sales of an ethanol-heavy fuel blend for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>House Republican Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota will vote for the E15 sales bill, according to a statement shared exclusively with Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always supported year-round E15 and I\u2019m proud to vote YES on the House floor later today to support Minnesota\u2019s farmers and producers,\u201d Emmer said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain of Michigan meanwhile told Blue Light News she&#8217;d vote yes, adding she is &#8220;pro-E15.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have huge farming different district,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana said he plans to vote against the bill. Speaker Mike Johnson has not said how he will vote.<\/p>\n<p>The E15 sales bill is backed by farm state Republicans, but many gas and oil state Republicans oppose the measure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP leaders will be divided on a vote Wednesday for a bill allowing year-round sales of an ethanol-heavy fuel blend for the first time. House Republican Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota will vote for the E15 sales bill, according to a statement shared exclusively with Blue Light News. \u201cI\u2019ve always supported year-round E15 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}