Congressman Peter Welch has joined a bipartisan group of House members to ask the Obama administration to temporarily suspend the mandate that ethanol be included in fuel. Welch says the ethanol program is driving up feed prices for farmers at a time that a major drought in the Midwest is slashing the nation's supply of corn.

Congressman Peter Welch wants the federal government to eliminate ethanol subsidies, saying taxpayers are paying $6 billion annually for them.