Ed Whitfield: “I urge you to call a time-out, Mr. Secretary, to make sure that we get this right.”

In order to reach Congress' statutory volumes there needs to be more ethanol in the system than can be absorbed just through E10.

We have no further speakers on our side of the aisle except for myself, and I think I have the right to close. I don't know if the gentleman from Illinois has additional speakers or if he would like to go at this time.

I want clean air. I want clean water. But I don't want an organized attack on the energy-producing sector of America because of, to use Mr. McNerney's term, a political decision to go after hydrocarbons.

Well, a lot of us did not believe that to be true.