Fight to ensure ethanol and biodiesel are not unfairly burdened.

Lisa C. McClain · Michigan · Republican

policy impact 0.62 specificity 0.68 extraction confidence 90%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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I am proud of Michigan’s biofuel industry and will fight to ensure that ethanol and biodiesel are not unfairly burdened.

Commitment to defend the biofuels industry from unfair burdens.

Agriculture | Congresswoman Lisa McClain
secondary · other · model gpt-5.4-mini

Evidence

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Roll Call 164, Bill Number H.R. 1346, Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act. Vote Question: On Passage. Status: Passed. McClain, Republican, MI: Yea.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No concrete official update was found in the 2026-08-14 to 2026-08-16 lookback window. The strongest recent official action is McClain voting yes for House passage of H.R. 1346, a year-round E15 ethanol/RVP bill. Because this was House passage rather than enactment, it supports partial delivery with clear effort.

partial later_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives - Roll Call 164, H.R. 1346
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

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Latest Action: 07/04/2025 Became Public Law No: 119-21. Sec. 70521 extends the clean fuel production tax credit through 2029 and requires clean fuels produced from feedstock use feedstock sourced from the United States, Canada, or Mexico.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Public Law 119-21 enacted a clean-fuel tax-credit extension and domestic-feedstock requirements relevant to biofuel producers, including biodiesel/renewable diesel policy concerns. This addresses part of the ethanol/biodiesel burden pledge but does not prove all burdens were removed, so it supports partial delivery.

partial later_term A for effort

Congress.gov - H.R. 1 Summary, Public Law No. 119-21
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Assessments

Public state: unverified As of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): partial. later_term A for effort

McClain materially supported biofuel-related relief by voting yes on House passage of H.R. 1346, a year-round E15 ethanol bill, and later federal law extended clean fuel production tax credit provisions relevant to biofuels. However, the evidence does not show full enactment of the E15 measure or that ethanol and biodiesel were broadly no longer unfairly burdened. The record supports meaningful effort and partial policy progress, not full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 84%