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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.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has launched a new ad in Iowa and New Hampshire and will hold a live, national webcast tonight touting her newly released health care plan.
Yesterday, Clinton was in Des Moines to launch her health care plan that includes mandatory coverage for all Americans. The webcast tonight (sign up on the campaign site) will begin at 8 p.m. Clinton is expected to field answers to questions about the plan.
The new ad is a 30-second spot dubbed “Health Care Plan.” It details the candidate’s experience on the health care issue, focusing on her efforts to pass universal health care in the early 1990s and her work with the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
Text of the ad:
Voice over: She changed our thinking when she introduced universal health care to America.
She changed the lives of 6, million kids when she championed the bill that gave them health insurance.
And she changed future generations by pushing the drug companies to lower the cost of vaccinations.
Now she has a health care plan that lets you keep your coverage if you like it, provides affordable choices if you don
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