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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.
Vice President Joe Biden will headline the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson fundraising dinner, the Democrats announced today.
“We are absolutely thrilled to have the Vice President back in Iowa,” said party chair Michael Kiernan in a statement.
The event will take place Saturday, November 21, in Des Moines. It is typically the party’s largest fundraiser of the year.
The last time Biden spoke at a “JJ” dinner in Iowa was in 2007, in the lead-up to the 2008 Iowa Caucuses, when he was still a presidential candidate. That year, he claimed on stage that then-Sen. Barack Obama had bused in many of his supporters from Chicago, a claim that could not be verified. Times have obviously changed since then.
Here’s a short video from Biden’s 2007 speech:
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