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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.
U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, told a Des Moines town hall forum on Sunday that some kind of government-run health care option is needed.
Boswell had been hesitant to support a public option in health care reform legislation previously, telling a crowd in Sigourney earlier this month that he still hasn’t decided whether he could support a government competitor to private insurance companies.
A week and a half later, it appears Boswell has warmed up to the idea, reports Radio Iowa’s Kay Henderson:
“I’ve come to the conclusion over these last several years that we need some kind of a public option,” Boswell said, to applause and cheers — and a few jeers from others in the crowd who don’t share his opinion. “I also realize that it’s got to be constructed very carefully.”
Boswell, a member of the fiscally conservative “Blue Dogs” in the U.S. House, had said previously that a public option could “be something I can’t vote for.”
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