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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.
Leaders in the U.S. House and Senate appear to have reached an agreement on President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package, but not all Democrats are pleased with the bill, chief among them Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin.
Harkin told the New York Times he believes Obama and Democratic lawmakers were too quick to give up on the party’s priorities.
“I am not happy with it,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. “You are not looking at a happy camper. I mean they took a lot of stuff out of education. They took it out of health, school construction and they put it more into tax issues.”
Harkin was also upset with the focus on the Alternative Minimum Tax. The bill retained a $70 billion tax break so millions of middle-income Americans can avoid paying the AMT.
“It’s about 9 percent of the whole bill,” he said, “Why is it in there? It has nothing to do with stimulus. It has nothing to do with recovery.”
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