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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.
“Are you fired up out thee? Are you ready to go?”
Asking Democrats to remember how they felt the day after President George W. Bush’s reelection victory in 2004, U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley encouraged Democratic activists at the annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner to work hard between now and election day.
Braley, who is a co-chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s “Red to Blue” program, was said he expected Democrats to expand their majority in the House of Representatives — “the people’s house” — this November.
“We need your help. We need your support,” he said, as he introduced Becky Greenwald, challenging U.S. Rep. Tom Latham in Iowa’s fourth district.
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