The four Republicans who represent Iowa in the U.S. House have voted for a new version of the Farm Bill after joining a bipartisan majority of House members to strip legal protections for a popular pesticide from the bill. A Republican congresswoman from Colorado threatened to slaughter the Farm Bill if the language about RoundUp remained in the bill. Iowa’s congressional delegation is touting a number of items that remain in the Farm Bill — including enhanced federal oversight to ensure foreigners do not buy or own U.S. farmland as well as an attempt to override a California law that bars the sale of pork products from animals raised in tight stalls that do not give the hogs enough room to move. House leaders say a separate vote on allowing year-round sales of E-15 is held in the House on May 13th. Senator Chuck Grassley says President Trump promised during his trip to Iowa in January that he’d sign the bill into law.
“I hope the leadership of the House of Representatives keeps their word to get E15 a floor vote and do that in very short order,” Grassley said. “In fact, I don’t really know what all the problem is about E15.” Grassley says Presidents Trump and Biden have issued waivers so E-15 could be sold in the summer months and it’s time to make the policy permanent.
