[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 5]
[Senate]
[Page 6809]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             ETHANOL PENALTY IN HIGHWAY TRUST FUND FORMULA

  Mr. DAYTON. Mr. President, I welcome the opportunity to express, on 
my behalf and that of my colleague and certainly the people of 
Minnesota, my gratitude to the Senator from Iowa, chairman of the 
Finance Committee, our distinguished neighbor to the south, for his 
phenomenal efforts in changing the ethanol penalty in the highway trust 
fund formula that will provide enormous benefit in the Senate bill to 
Minnesota and to his own State of Iowa. I have also been working with 
my colleague, the Senator from Minnesota, to try to do our best in our 
small way to support that effort and to be vigilant on the floor with 
regard to our caucuses. I certainly want to give credit where credit is 
due to the distinguished chairman of the Finance Committee for using 
his leadership position, and it is an enormous benefit to the State of 
Minnesota.
  I express my gratitude and the gratitude of all Minnesotans to the 
Senator from Iowa for his initiative and leadership.

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