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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. Steve King, R-Iowa, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other “liberals” are opening a “back door” for terrorist attacks in the United States.
King, a Kiron conservative who represents the sprawling 5th District in western Iowa, made comments that echoed those of President George W. Bush earlier this weekend. Bush says the inaction of Congress to extend government wiretapping means the United States is in “more danger of attack.”
Here is King:
Pelosi and her liberals refused to debate a bi-partisan Senate bill to update FISA. Instead of taking up this vital bill to secure America, she and her Democrats want to play politics with contempt charges against members of the Bush administration. They are going on vacation this afternoon without passing a bi-partisan FISA update that passed the Senate earlier this week. By this Saturday, Pelosi and her liberals will be on vacation and a back door will be opened for terrorists to plan attacks on America. This is unacceptable. I condemn this arrogant disregard for the physical safety of every American- man, woman and child.
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