S. 133 - American Fuels Act of 2007

Energy. 110th Congress (2007-2008) View bill details
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Summary:
Increases the production, distribution and consumption of renewable fuel (by CRS) 
Status:
The bill has been introduced. 
There have been no votes on this bill.

American Fuels Act of 2007

S. 133 — 110th Congress (2007–2008)

Summary
Increases the production, distribution and consumption of renewable fuel (by CRS)
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Title
A bill to promote the national security and stability of the economy of the United States by reducing the dependence of the United States on oil through the use of alternative fuels and new technology, and for other purposes.
Other Titles
  • American Fuels Act of 2007
Sponsor
Barack Obama
Co-Sponsors
Subjects
  • Energy
  • Administrative procedure
  • Advice and consent of the Senate
  • Air pollution
  • Alcohol as fuel
  • Alternative energy sources
  • Armed forces
  • Automobile industry
  • Biomass energy
  • Business
  • Cellulose
  • Coal
  • Compressed natural gas
  • Congress
  • Congressional reporting requirements
  • Corporation taxes
  • Defense contracts
  • Defense economics
  • Defense procurement
  • Diesel motor
  • Economic growth
  • Economic policy
  • Electric vehicles
  • Energy security
  • Energy supplies
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • Environmental protection
  • Equipment and supplies
  • Excise tax
  • Executive Office of the President
  • Executive departments
  • Executive reorganization
  • Federal installations
  • Food
  • Franchises (Retail trade)
  • Fuel cells
  • Government vehicles
  • Hydrogen
  • Income tax
  • Job creation
  • Labor
  • Law
  • Liquefied natural gas
  • Liquefied petroleum gas
  • Mass rapid transit
  • Minimum tax
  • Motor buses
  • Motor vehicle pollution control
  • Natural gas vehicles
  • Natural resources
  • Oils and fats
  • Petroleum
  • Petroleum industry
  • Presidential appointments
  • Presidents
  • Recycling of waste products
  • Rural affairs
  • Rural economic development
  • Service stations
  • Solid wastes
  • Sugar
  • Sulphur
  • Tax credits
  • Taxation
  • Transportation
  • Trucks
Related Bills
Major Actions
Introduced1/04/2007
Referred to Committee
Bill History

There have been no votes on this bill.

ActionDateDescription
Introduced1/04/2007
1/04/2007Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
1/04/2007Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S127-128)
NumberSponsorDate OfferedStatus

Total contributions given to Senators from interest groups that…

$9,500
$403,458
$412,958
4.8 times as much
$1,974,709
$1,974,709

opposed this bill

3 Organizations Supported and 1 Opposed; See Which Ones

Organizations that took a position on
American Fuels Act of 2007

3 organizations supported this bill

Governors' Ethanol Coalition
National Corn Growers Association
National Farmers Union

1 organization opposed this bill

Earth Policy Institute

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Includes reported contributions to congressional campaigns of Senators in office during the 110th U.S. Congress, from interest groups invested in the vote according to MapLight, January 1, 2003 – December 31, 2008.
Contributions data source: OpenSecrets.org

Contributions by Legislator

Namesort iconPartyState$ From Interest Groups
That Supported
$ From Interest Groups
That Opposed
Daniel K. AkakaDHI$0$10
Andrew Lamar AlexanderRTN$0$500
Alan Wayne AllardRCO$0$0
Max BaucusDMT$15,000$18,950
Birch "Evan" BayhDIN$0$0
Bob BennettRUT$1,000$0
Joe BidenDDE$0$4,710
Jesse "Jeff" BingamanDNM$0$16,001
Christopher "Kit" BondRMO$29,982$0
Barbara BoxerDCA$500$195,356
Sherrod BrownDOH$2,500$60,610
Sam BrownbackRKS$5,500$0
Jim BunningRKY$0$0
Richard BurrRNC$10,650$2,300
Robert ByrdDWV$0$250
Maria CantwellDWA$0$160,365
Ben CardinDMD$0$35,951
Tom CarperDDE$500$2,300
Bob CaseyDPA$0$66,513
Clarence Saxby ChamblissRGA$35,900$0
Hillary ClintonDNY$0$139,250
Tom CoburnROK$0$0
William Thad CochranRMS$5,000$2,300
Norm ColemanRMN$30,950$7,100
Susan CollinsRME$0$17,650
Gaylord Kent ConradDND$9,750$0
Bob CorkerRTN$0$2,000
John CornynRTX$1,000$0
Larry CraigRID$500$0
Mike CrapoRID$1,000$0
Jim DeMintRSC$0$2,300
Chris DoddDCT$0$4,100
Mary Elizabeth DoleRNC$6,100$0
Pete DomeniciRNM$0$0
Byron DorganDND$6,000$1,250
Dick DurbinDIL$19,750$21,160
John EnsignRNV$0$0
Mike EnziRWY$0$0
Russ FeingoldDWI$0$39,308
Dianne FeinsteinDCA$2,000$38,850
Lindsey GrahamRSC$0$1,250
Chuck GrassleyRIA$19,550$5,000
Judd GreggRNH$0$3,000
Chuck HagelRNE$5,000$0
Tom HarkinDIA$33,825$15,046
Orrin HatchRUT$0$0
Kay Bailey HutchisonRTX$0$5,733
Jim InhofeROK$3,750$0
Dan InouyeDHI$0$2,300
Johnny IsaksonRGA$0$0
Tim JohnsonDSD$13,250$5,800
Ted KennedyDMA$1,300$11,120
John KerryDMA$0$18,920
Amy KlobucharDMN$1,500$64,000
Herb KohlDWI$0$0
Jon KylRAZ$0$0
Mary LandrieuDLA$10,500$1,416
Frank LautenbergDNJ$0$18,403
Patrick LeahyDVT$1,000$12,700
Carl LevinDMI$0$23,095
Joe LiebermanICT$500$37,200
Blanche LincolnDAR$20,050$300
Chester Trent LottRMS$0$0
Dick LugarRIN$21,800$6,950
Mel MartinezRFL$0$11,250
John McCainRAZ$0$7,750
Claire McCaskillDMO$2,000$48,110
Addison "Mitch" McConnellRKY$6,300$4,600
Bob MenéndezDNJ$0$33,660
Barbara MikulskiDMD$0$7,150
Lisa MurkowskiRAK$0$250
Patty MurrayDWA$5,000$75,299
Earl "Ben" NelsonDNE$15,500$1,500
Clarence "Bill" NelsonDFL$0$62,405
Barack ObamaDIL$500$108,442
Mark PryorDAR$1,000$0
John "Jack" ReedDRI$0$4,560
Harry ReidDNV$4,500$37,748
Charles "Pat" RobertsRKS$28,550$0
John "Jay" RockefellerDWV$0$44,700
Ken SalazarDCO$7,500$127,863
Bernie SandersIVT$0$40,570
Chuck SchumerDNY$0$39,498
Jeff SessionsRAL$0$2,000
Richard ShelbyRAL$0$2,300
Gordon SmithROR$3,251$4,600
Olympia SnoweRME$0$10,400
Arlen SpecterDPA$0$1,000
Debbie StabenowDMI$1,500$30,310
Ted StevensRAK$0$1,000
John SununuRNH$0$0
Jon TesterDMT$1,000$110,977
Craig ThomasRWY$1,000$0
John ThuneRSD$0$0
David VitterRLA$9,500$3,800
George VoinovichROH$6,000$0
John WarnerRVA$0$0
Jim WebbDVA$0$40,740
Sheldon WhitehouseDRI$0$37,410
Ron WydenDOR$4,250$3,500

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NamePartyState$ From Interest Groups
That Supported
$ From Interest Groups
That Opposed
Daniel K. AkakaDHI$0$10
Andrew Lamar AlexanderRTN$0$500
Alan Wayne AllardRCO$0$0
Max BaucusDMT$15,000$18,950
Birch "Evan" BayhDIN$0$0
Bob BennettRUT$1,000$0
Joe BidenDDE$0$4,710
Jesse "Jeff" BingamanDNM$0$16,001
Christopher "Kit" BondRMO$29,982$0
Barbara BoxerDCA$500$195,356
Sherrod BrownDOH$2,500$60,610
Sam BrownbackRKS$5,500$0
Jim BunningRKY$0$0
Richard BurrRNC$10,650$2,300
Robert ByrdDWV$0$250
Maria CantwellDWA$0$160,365
Ben CardinDMD$0$35,951
Tom CarperDDE$500$2,300
Bob CaseyDPA$0$66,513
Clarence Saxby ChamblissRGA$35,900$0
Hillary ClintonDNY$0$139,250
Tom CoburnROK$0$0
William Thad CochranRMS$5,000$2,300
Norm ColemanRMN$30,950$7,100
Susan CollinsRME$0$17,650
Gaylord Kent ConradDND$9,750$0
Bob CorkerRTN$0$2,000
John CornynRTX$1,000$0
Larry CraigRID$500$0
Mike CrapoRID$1,000$0
Jim DeMintRSC$0$2,300
Chris DoddDCT$0$4,100
Mary Elizabeth DoleRNC$6,100$0
Pete DomeniciRNM$0$0
Byron DorganDND$6,000$1,250
Dick DurbinDIL$19,750$21,160
John EnsignRNV$0$0
Mike EnziRWY$0$0
Russ FeingoldDWI$0$39,308
Dianne FeinsteinDCA$2,000$38,850
Lindsey GrahamRSC$0$1,250
Chuck GrassleyRIA$19,550$5,000
Judd GreggRNH$0$3,000
Chuck HagelRNE$5,000$0
Tom HarkinDIA$33,825$15,046
Orrin HatchRUT$0$0
Kay Bailey HutchisonRTX$0$5,733
Jim InhofeROK$3,750$0
Dan InouyeDHI$0$2,300
Johnny IsaksonRGA$0$0
Tim JohnsonDSD$13,250$5,800
Ted KennedyDMA$1,300$11,120
John KerryDMA$0$18,920
Amy KlobucharDMN$1,500$64,000
Herb KohlDWI$0$0
Jon KylRAZ$0$0
Mary LandrieuDLA$10,500$1,416
Frank LautenbergDNJ$0$18,403
Patrick LeahyDVT$1,000$12,700
Carl LevinDMI$0$23,095
Joe LiebermanICT$500$37,200
Blanche LincolnDAR$20,050$300
Chester Trent LottRMS$0$0
Dick LugarRIN$21,800$6,950
Mel MartinezRFL$0$11,250
John McCainRAZ$0$7,750
Claire McCaskillDMO$2,000$48,110
Addison "Mitch" McConnellRKY$6,300$4,600
Bob MenéndezDNJ$0$33,660
Barbara MikulskiDMD$0$7,150
Lisa MurkowskiRAK$0$250
Patty MurrayDWA$5,000$75,299
Earl "Ben" NelsonDNE$15,500$1,500
Clarence "Bill" NelsonDFL$0$62,405
Barack ObamaDIL$500$108,442
Mark PryorDAR$1,000$0
John "Jack" ReedDRI$0$4,560
Harry ReidDNV$4,500$37,748
Charles "Pat" RobertsRKS$28,550$0
John "Jay" RockefellerDWV$0$44,700
Ken SalazarDCO$7,500$127,863
Bernie SandersIVT$0$40,570
Chuck SchumerDNY$0$39,498
Jeff SessionsRAL$0$2,000
Richard ShelbyRAL$0$2,300
Gordon SmithROR$3,251$4,600
Olympia SnoweRME$0$10,400
Arlen SpecterDPA$0$1,000
Debbie StabenowDMI$1,500$30,310
Ted StevensRAK$0$1,000
John SununuRNH$0$0
Jon TesterDMT$1,000$110,977
Craig ThomasRWY$1,000$0
John ThuneRSD$0$0
David VitterRLA$9,500$3,800
George VoinovichROH$6,000$0
John WarnerRVA$0$0
Jim WebbDVA$0$40,740
Sheldon WhitehouseDRI$0$37,410
Ron WydenDOR$4,250$3,500

Interest Groups that supported this bill

$ Donated
Wheat, corn, soybeans and cash grain$403,458
Agricultural labor unions$9,500

Interest Groups that opposed this bill

$ Donated
Environmental policy$1,974,709
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