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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.
A discharge petition that would force a vote on U.S. Rep. Steve King‘s health-care reform legislation has been signed by only 52 Republicans out of 178 GOP House members.
The Huffington Post’s Lucia Graves reports that the petition must be signed by 218 members of Congress in order to force the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to put the matter up for a vote. The conservative organization the Heritage Foundation has launched an effort to rally support for the measure, saying momentum is building towards a vote on repeal.
King has been steadfast in his efforts to repeal federal health care reform legislation passed earlier this year. He has called 100 percent repeal the “only option for patriots,” and when several Republican lawmakers publicly questioned whether the law could ever be repealed completely, King wrote in an Op-Ed for the Washington Times that his party would either “stand unanimously together for 100 percent repeal… or our ranks will be split and our effort defeated.”
However, a bill introduced by King to repeal the legislation only garnered 62 co-sponsors, leading King to complain that too many Republicans “aren’t committed to full repeal.”
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