Club for Growth reports that the Senate failed an amendment to the energy bill that would have removed the 54-cent tax on imported ethanol. Both Senators Voinovich and Brown voted to keep higher prices.

Higher-priced imports raise demand on domestic ethanol production, raising its price and the price of its components such as corn.

Even with all this boom for agriculture the House wants to extend farm support in force since 2002, reports (link dead) the Washington Post.

These won’t help Congress’s 14% confidence rating.