The continuing resolution to be considered by Congress this week to keep the government operating is said to include a provision allowing the sale of E15 year-round, nationwide. Sen. Chuck Grassley told reporters Tuesday that he did not know if it was included, but he provided input to House Speaker Mike Johnson over the weekend regarding the importance of E15.

“I intervened with a phone call to Johnson on that subject Saturday and it happens that he was with the president at the football game, so he couldn’t talk right then, so he said ‘I’ll call you back.’ He never called back, but in the mean time I texted to him why we need E15 year round,” said Grassley. “For the last five years on an annual basis EPA has given the summer waiver. It was bipartisan in the house between the Nebraska congressman and the Minnesota congresswoman and then it was bipartisan in the Senate. For all those reasons, it should be included.”

Listen to Grassley’s comments.