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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 Sioux City Journal’s Bret Hayworth just interviewed U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, who is in Iraq. King says he’s not had much interaction with GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin but views the choice as one that cuts into Barack Obama’s generational appeal.
Here is Hayworth in The Journal’s Politically Speaking blog:
Just before noon, I interviewed Republican Congressman Steve King in Iraq and the Palin nomination was just an hour old. King said he’d never seen her in person, but was enthused. Palin, 44, is younger than Obama, 48, and takes the generation gap off the table (McCain turned 72 today), King said. Plus he loves her support for more drilling of oil in her state of Alaska.
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