Dramatically increase support for home-grown, American-made alternative fuels and renewable energy sources.

Mike Rogers · Alabama · Republican

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Occurrences

Mike Rogers believes Congress must dramatically increase its support for home-grown, American-made alternative fuels and renewable energy sources

Calls for major expansion of federal support for alternative fuels and renewables.

Mike Rogers For Congress
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Evidence

Archived campaign material says Rogers was 'working on a measure' to build E-85 ethanol distribution infrastructure and also supported investing in alternative fuels, hydrogen, fuel cells, and tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles.

Campaign rhetoric directly matches the promise to expand support for home-grown alternative fuels and renewable energy, especially ethanol infrastructure.

partial same_term

Rogers4Congress.com
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Congress.gov identifies Rogers as the sponsor of H.R. 5534, a bill to use CAFE-penalty money to expand infrastructure needed to increase the availability of alternative fuels; the bill passed the House but did not become law.

This is concrete legislative action to expand alternative-fuel infrastructure, but it stopped short of enactment.

partial same_term A for effort

H.R.5534 - 109th Congress (2005-2006)
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The House Clerk records H.R. 5534 passing the House 355-9 on July 24, 2006, confirming Rogers's alternative-fuels bill advanced substantially in the same congressional term.

The bill was advanced and passed the House, but later Senate inaction means the promise was not fully delivered through law.

partial same_term A for effort

Roll Call 396 | Bill Number: H.R. 5534
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Rogers filed an earmark request for Auburn University 'Biomass to Liquid Fuels and Electric Power Research,' stating the funding would help develop renewable liquid transportation fuel alternatives from domestic sources.

Later appropriations requests show continued support for renewable-fuels research, but this is still not evidence of a broad, fulfilled increase in support.

partial same_term A for effort

Congressional Record, Vol. 155, No. 107
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Assessments

never unknown A for effort

Rogers materially advanced the promise by sponsoring H.R. 5534 to expand alternative-fuel infrastructure and by seeking appropriations for renewable-fuels research. That shows a serious same-term legislative effort aligned with the pledge. But the core promised outcome was to dramatically increase support, and the strongest cited bill passed the House without becoming law; the other evidence shows advocacy and targeted funding requests rather than a broad delivered increase in federal support attributable to him. Under federal candidate-credit standards, this is a meaningful attempt but not a completed delivery.

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never same_term A for effort

Rogers took concrete same-office action aligned with the promise, especially sponsoring H.R. 5534 to expand alternative-fuel infrastructure and advancing it through House passage in 2006, plus later support for renewable-fuels research funding. However, the alternative-fuels bill did not become law, and the provided evidence does not show that he delivered a dramatic federal increase in support for American-made alternative fuels or renewable energy sources. Under the rule for serious but unsuccessful legislative attempts, this is best classified as not delivered with an effort badge.

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