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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. Sen. Joe Biden says the hours of the George W. Bush presidency widely viewed as the Texan’s most commanding actually were jammed with missed opportunities.
As Bush rallied the nation after 9/11, the president prepared Americans to take an Army to war. But he never asked for sacrifice from the American people, said Biden. Bush squandered an opportunity to launch a citizen-led shift away from a petroleum-based economy reliant on the Middle East to domestic renewables, added the Delaware Democrat.
“We’re not a nation at war, we’re an Army at war,” Biden said. “What have we asked of anyone else?”
Had he been president on 9/11, Biden said he would have asked the American people to change their energy consumption as part of a national defense initiative.
“Who would have said, ‘No?’” he said.
Read the rest of Biden's comments in western Iowa over Memorial Day weekend in the Carroll Daily Times Herald.
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