[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 211 (Monday, December 15, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H5890]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1910
                     NORTHWEST OHIO BIOFUELS SUMMIT

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I say thank you so very much to Ohio's corn 
and soy farmers for their excellent agricultural summit in which I 
participated about a week ago in Defiance, Ohio. We discussed the 
importance of biofuels as a reliable source of income for northwest 
Ohio farmers, in fact, 44 percent of their income and rising.
  This is a great victory for our country over the last three decades. 
Let me thank our region's farmers, processors, and growers for bringing 
together leaders from the biofuels industry, ag commodity groups, Ohio 
Farm Bureau, and refineries to hear directly about the increase in 
demand and production for biofuels as a new initiative every day to 
increase income for farmers as they lose export markets due to tariffs. 
Biofuels now comprise over 44 percent of their bottom line.
  In the early days, I worked with Senators on both sides of the aisle 
and led the effort here in the House to make sure people had access to 
E85 ethanol at the fuel pumps. It has been a great gift of my career to 
have served long enough to see that we have been successful.
  We also flew the first fighter jet F-16 out of our base 20 years ago 
using biofuels, and it worked. We are very proud of this industry as it 
grows. My hat is off to Ohio farmers and Midwest farmers who are making 
this reality in our lifetime. What America makes and grows makes and 
grows America.

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