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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. government responded late Wednesday to legal challenges to the federal health care law brought by several states’ Attorneys General in a Florida state court, the Wall Street Journal reports.
While filed in Florida, the government’s response aims to answer nearly 20 Attorneys General, mostly Republican, who have challenged the law in court in recent months. Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller has refused to file a legal challenge, a decision that has become the focus of Republican challenger Brenna Findley‘s campaign to unseat the seven-term incumbent Democrat.
In its filing, the U.S. Justice Department invoked the federal government’s power to regulate interstate commerce to defend the law’s mandate that nearly all legal residents without health insurance will pay a penalty starting in 2014 that “gradually increases to at least $695 per person annually or 2.5 percent of income,” according to the Journal.
The government’s filing in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida argued that the penalties “were justified because people’s decisions about how to pay for health care in the aggregate affect interstate commerce.”
Opponents of the new health care law have argued that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t give the federal government the power to require citizens to have health insurance.
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