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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.
Des Moines civil rights attorney Roxanne Conlin has kicked off her 2010 campaign for the chance to take on Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley with a new Web video released Monday.
An aide to Conlin told the Associated Press and The Des Moines Register that Conlin would file paperwork with the Federal Election Commission this week. She now joins Bob Krause of Fairfield, Tom Fiegen of Clarence and Sal Mohamed of Sioux City in the Democratic primary.
Conlin is the former president of the nation’s trial lawyers association. She ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1982 and has built a reputation as one of the country’s leading civil rights attorneys.
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