Support McCain-Flake Amendment No. 955

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May 23, 2013 | 1 min read | Print Article

Support McCain-Flake Amendment No. 955

May 23, 2013

The Honorable Harry Reid	The Honorable Mitch McConnell
Majority Leader	Minority Leader
United States Senate	United States Senate
Washington, DC 20514	Washington, DC 20514

Dear Congressional Leaders,

The undersigned diverse group of business associations, hunger and development organizations, agricultural groups, environmental groups, budget hawks, grassroots groups and free marketers urge you to support the McCain-Flake Amendment, No. 955, to the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013 (S. 954), which is currently being debated on the Senate floor. This amendment would protect taxpayers from being forced to pay for ethanol pumps and storage facilities in the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), a program in the farm bill energy title that was intended to support wind, solar, and hydropower energy systems. Taxpayers have supported corn ethanol for over thirty years, and it is time that subsidies for this mature industry were ended once and for all.

Sincerely,

ActionAid USA	National Chicken Council
American Meat Institute	National Council of Chain Restaurants
American Motorcyclist Association	National Marine Manufacturers Association
California Dairy Campaign	National Taxpayers Union
Competitive Enterprise Institute	National Turkey Federation
Environmental Working Group	National Wildlife Federation
Freedom Action	North American Meat Association
Friends of the Earth	Specialty Equipment Market Association
Greenpeace USA	Taxpayers for Common Sense
Milk Producers Council