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A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
The U.S. Senate blocked an energy bill from moving forward Friday, as a motion for cloture failed on a vote of 53-42. The cloture motion would have required a 60-vote supermajority to pass.
The energy bill, which had just passed the U.S. House on Thursday, would have significantly raised fuel efficiency standards for vehicles in the U.S and would have also raised the production of renewable fuels.
All of the sitting Democratic senators who are running for president voted in favor of the cloture motion, Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd, and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin also voted for passage.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was absent and did not vote.
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley voted against the cloture motion.
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