House vote on E15 expected this week

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., has listed the bill to legalize the sale of E15 fuel nationwide and year round for a vote this week. 

Scalise did not announce a day for the vote, but there have been reports it will be Wednesday. 

The bill, H.R. 1346, is titled the “Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act of 2025.” It is sponsored by Rep. Adrian Smith, R-Neb.

Smith and Reps. Michelle Fischbach, R-Minn., and Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., and National Corn Growers Association President Jed Bower, an Ohio farmer, have scheduled a news conference today to promote the bill. 

Representatives from the American Farm Bureau Federation, Growth Energy, the National Farmers Union, and the Renewable Fuels Association will also be available to answer reporters’ questions. 

The National Farmers Union sent its members an action alert on Monday telling them to urge Congress to vote for the bill.

House leadership promised Midwestern Republicans a vote on E15 in order to get their votes for passage of the farm bill. Small and medium-sized refiners have objected to the content of H.R. 1346 and there have been rumors of changes to the bill.

House Democrats have called for a vote on E15 but a House Democratic aide said whether Democrats vote for it “really depends on the bill itself” and that there were “rumors over the weekend that the majority was watering it down to further appease refiners.”