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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.
Pending legislation in Michigan, historically the state most strongly opposed to Iowa’s first-in-the-nation status, would give the parties flexibility to bump up the state’s primary date.
Ballot Access News reports the Michigan Senate’s Campaigns and Elections Committee has approved two competing bills. One bill schedules Michigan’s primaries for Feb. 5, the “Mega Tuesday” date of the de facto national primary. The other bill calls for a Jan. 29 date — in violation of the Democratic National Committee’s schedule, which has reserved Jan. 29 for South Carolina alone.
Florida has already leapfrogged to Jan. 29, and pending Ohio legislation would also set a Jan. 29 date. States violating the DNC calendar may be stripped of half their national convention delegates. But in Florida, at least, lawmakers determined that the increased role in the process that an earlier date provides will more than offset the loss in largely symbolic delegates.
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