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Illinois State Legislature Puts the Heat on Congress
Both the Illinois State House and Senate have resolutions before them urging the United States Congress to pass H.R 875, a bill to require scientific testing of the fuel blend E-15. At the specific request of ABATE of Illinois, Senators Mike Jacobs and Linda Holmes have sponsored Senate Resolution 634 along with Representatives Kay Hatcher and Tomas Morrison who sponsored identical legislation known as House Resolution 524.
The measures are non-binding but send a clear message to Washington D.C. that something needs to be done to address the problematic issues associated with the new, higher level of ethanol blends. This is resounding especially coming from a State like Illinois where the local economy highly depends on the sale of corn.
H.R. 524 and S.R. 634 are great examples of what can be done at the State level to
combat the effects of a nationwide problem.
When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the waiver that allowed for the sale of E-15 they did no testing on the power train of the motor, only the tailpipe emissions. Failing to test the effects of the blend on nothing else has resulted in manufactures refusing to do any warranty repair on any motorcycle that has run E-15 though it.
H.R. 875, the Sensenbrenner bill, would force the EPA to conduct an independent study on all of the effects
of the E-15 blend on internal combustion engines and at the same time halt the
sale of the blend to avoid any further damage to the fleet.
The Motorcycle Riders Foundation would like to thank ABATE of Illinois
for their support in working to get H.R. 875 passed. |
LLINOIS:
In case you are new and not up to speed H.R. 875 is the bill to require a "Comprehensive" and "Independent" study of E-15 which is what should have been done back in 2005. The link to this bill is https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr875 The AMA and the MRF have both picked up on us filing the resolutions and have put the word out. The more states to follow your lead the better to get this job done The Poker Run Bill is still being looked at by the speakers office and decisions have not been made as the Budget, Pensions, Gay Marriage are all on the list of problems above us. I talked with staff while writing this and was told to stop by the office next week for an up date. The final 3 days of the fall session are Nov. 5,6,&7th. Our legislative friends will be reaching out to you for help getting petitions signed for getting on the primary ballet. A good place to get signatures will be your own meetings. Call the legislators campaign office and get those petitions from them. Your help is needed by them and their help is needed by us. Bob
Correction:
FYI: Both the House and Senate resolutions to support Congressional Bill H.R. 875 now have a bill number.
The House version, HR 524 Sponsored by Representatives Kay Hatcher (50th) and Co-sponsored by Tom Morrison (54th) and
the Senate version, SR 634 Sponsored by Senators Mike Jacobs (36th) and Chief Co-sponsor by Linda Holmes (42nd)
These bills need to be assigned committees which should be done the week of Nov 5th. They will most likely go to the Agriculture Committees in each chamber but no guarantees.
As soon as I find out which committee they get I will let you know so calls can be made for supporting them.
These are identical bills in language but each is separate from the other so if one makes it and the other fails at least Congress know that there is division on this subject in the #2 corn state.
In case you are new and not up to speed H.R. 875 is the bill to require a "Comprehensive" and "Independent" study of E-15 which is what should have been done back in 2005. The link to this bill is https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr875
The AMA and the MRF have both picked up on us filing the resolutions and have put the word out. The more states to follow your lead the better to get this job done
The Poker Run Bill is still being looked at by the speakers office and decisions have not been made as the Budget, Pensions, Gay Marriage are all on the list of problems above us.
I talked with staff while writing this and was told to stop by the office next week for an up date.
The final 3 days of the fall session are Nov. 5,6,&7th.
Our legislative friends will be reaching out to you for help getting petitions signed for getting on the primary ballet.
A good place to get signatures will be your own meetings. Call the legislators campaign office and get those petitions from them. Your help is needed by them and their help is needed by us.
Bob
FYI: Both the House and Senate resolutions to support Congressional Bill H.R. 875 now have a bill number.
The House version, HR 524 Sponsored by Representatives Kay Hatcher (50th) and Co-sponsored by Tom Morrison (54th) and
the Senate version, SR 634 Sponsored by Senators Mike Jacobs (36th) and Chief Co-sponsor by Linda Holmes (42nd)
These bills need to be assigned committees which should be done the week of Nov 5th. They will most likely go to the Agriculture Committees in each chamber but no guarantees.
As soon as I find out which committee they get I will let you know so calls can be made for supporting them.
These are identical bills in language but each is separate from the other so if one makes it and the other fails at least Congress know that there is division on this subject in the #2 corn state.
In case you are new and not up to speed H.R. 875 is the bill to require a "Comprehensive" and "Independent" study of E-15 which is what should have been done back in 2005. The link to this bill is https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr875
The AMA and the MRF have both picked up on us filing the resolutions and have put the word out. The more states to follow your lead the better to get this job done
The Poker Run Bill is still being looked at by the speakers office and decisions have not been made as the Budget, Pensions, Gay Marriage are all on the list of problems above us.
I talked with staff while writing this and was told to stop by the office next week for an up date.
The final 3 days of the fall session are Nov. 5,6,&7th.
Our legislative friends will be reaching out to you for help getting petitions signed for getting on the primary ballet.
A good place to get signatures will be your own meetings. Call the legislators campaign office and get those petitions from them. Your help is needed by them and their help is needed by us.
Bob
