Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
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.
Ever wonder how legislation to repeal the individual insurance mandate in health care reform legislation started springing up in states across the country? Jesse Zwick, of our sister site The Washington Independent, takes a look behind the scenes and investigates the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings [...]
The Democrats aren’t really running Washington these days; the deficit is. Deficit fears have prompted lawmakers to shy away from even the most popular measures, like an extension of unemployment benefits. But there’s one major piece of pending legislation that deficit shouldn’t be able to knock down: the American Power Act. Sens. U.S. John Kerry, [...]
There’s a major generation gap in the public’s concerns about the environment — one that White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel hopes to capitalize on in November’s midterm elections. “On almost every major question examined in the latest weekly Society for Human Resource Management/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll,” CongressDaily reports (subs. req’d), “young people [...]
In his speech to the nation from the Oval Office Tuesday night, President Obama laid out a three-step plan to mitigate the damage from the BP oil spill and compensate affected residents along the Gulf Coast.
Missing from his address, however, was a concrete proposal for how to wean the country off of fossil fuels like oil. And environmental activists who had hoped the president would take the opportunity to call on the Senate to pass carbon-capping climate legislation likely came away disappointed.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is frequently mentioned as a possible Republican 2012 presidential candidate, spoke Tuesday at the Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C., on the topic of health care reform. In response to a reporter’s question, he pledged that as president, he would sign a repeal of “ObamaCare” as long as it was [...]
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., tells The Hill that the landmark climate bill being drafted by U.S. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., will likely be given a vote as an amendment to U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s, D-N.M., energy-only bill. If Schumer’s right — and he’s very close to the Democratic leadership, so [...]
Along with subsidies for nuclear power, expanded offshore drilling was supposed to be one of the key provisions to win the support of Republicans like U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and conservative Democrats like U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana for comprehensive climate legislation. Developments over the past few weeks, however, have changed [...]
Despite the recent withdrawal of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., from the climate legislation process, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is telling reporters that the Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin analyzing the economic impact of the climate bill he and Graham helped craft.
Kate Sheppard has some big news on the Senate climate bill, expected to drop Monday, following a conference call with U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., one of three senators working on the bill. The good news for environmentalists: Three of the country’s big five oil companies have agreed to support the bill, as has the [...]
This is bound to draw some fire from the left: The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
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