Automakers have announced that fueling your car with higher than 10 percent ethanol blends will void warranties.

The USDA has said that the mandate played a part in driving up U.S. food prices 3 to 4 percent last year.

In February, I introduced legislation to prohibit EPA from allowing gasoline blends with E15 to be used in passenger cars and trucks.

A final question. On the cellulosic biofuel side, what was produced and available for compliance under the RFS in 2010, 2011, 2012 and so far in 2013?

Thank you, Chairman Boxer, for convening today's hearing.

The mandates based on those assumptions are not feasible and should be modified.

I come to the floor to discuss what I call the Washington exemption from ObamaCare. One of the few real victories the American people had in the ObamaCare debate was we actually got an amendment included in the Senate consideration of the…

America's energy policy should promote efficiency and value. It should not hurt consumers or cause them to bear unnecessary costs.

In an ill-advised stop-gap rule, EPA has on several occasions waived the 10 percent limit of ethanol that can be blended into gasoline.

Certainly the program was intended to enhance energy security.

But I believe it is really time to admit that the RFS is fundamentally flawed and limps along year after year.

I am very concerned that is a temporary Band-Aid and we really need some more wholesale look at this law.

I will oppose amendments that do that. And so it is just going to be about that sort of important reform to this program.

Further highlighting my point is the absence of the Energy Information Administration.

I think, exaggerates production, leaving refiners to either purchase more of a product that does not exist or pay a fine.

The World Bank says that corn-based ethanol in the U.S. is driving up grain prices by up to 8 percent worldwide.

Is there not a very strong possibility that your actions, once finalized, will be litigated?

And would you agree that reaching the blend wall threatens a spike in gasoline prices?

Thank you all for testifying. Mr. Grundler, the EPA's recent use of the waiver authority, I assume that means you all decided that hitting the blend wall was a real threat.

Would you expect that action this year to be a long-term solution?

Unfortunately not invited were many significant stakeholders like poultry producers, food products manufacturers, boat owners, motorcycle enthusiasts, small engine manufacturers, biodiesel producers, gas station owners, conservation groups.

If his employees go to the individual market, they will see an average premium increase of 54 percent.

You are right that Congress is not a small business. It is a large employer and it is treated completely differently than any other large employer and far better by being able to go to this exchange, the only large employer that is allowed…

Your bill, of course, guts be Affordable Care Act. Mine fixes it.

reclaiming the floor and wrapping up, I continue to find that very unfortunate and, frankly, really unreasonable. We, each of us as Members of the Senate, made an important election about how to handle this ObamaCare exemption issue. Some…