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Iowa lawmaker praises national energy emergency order, credits officials for E15 waiver
Summary
Representative Horra used a point of personal privilege to praise a national energy emergency executive order that he said enabled E15 fuel waivers, credited President Trump and Iowa officials, and described economic importance of ethanol for Iowa.
Representative Horra took a point of personal privilege on the House floor to comment on a national energy emergency declaration and its effects on ethanol and E15 gasoline availability.
Horra said President Trump signed an executive order declaring a national energy emergency that, in his description, “enabled EPA to issue emergency fuel waivers” allowing more widespread sale of E15 gasoline. Horra attributed the move as supportive of Iowa Corn Growers and Iowa manufacturing jobs, saying those industries “produce over 4,100,000,000 gallons of ethanol annually and contribute over 6 and a half billion dollars to Iowa’s GDP,” comments he made on the floor.
Horra also said that, under the prior administration, Iowa and Nebraska — led by their attorney general — filed a lawsuit after the EPA did not respond to petitions submitted by eight Midwestern states. Horra credited Attorney General Brenna Bird and Governor Kim Reynolds alongside President Trump for actions he said would benefit Iowa’s ethanol industry. He further stated the EPA would issue a year‑round sale of E15 beginning in 2025 to the eight Midwestern states; this sequence of events and the legal background were presented as Horra’s floor remarks.
Those statements were made as a personal‑privilege remark and were not accompanied by a bill, motion, or floor vote in the transcript.
