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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.
Speaking in Spencer, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, challenged wealthy and iconic oilman T. Boone Pickens, a man who bleeds black gold, on of all things, oil.
T. Boone Pickens
But King isn’t buying it. And he flat out tells his constituents that he knows more about drilling than T. Boone Pickens.
Here is King in The Spencer Daily Reporter:
“I think that when (longtime Texas oil executive) T. Boone Pickens comes on television and says, ‘this is one problem we can’t drill our way out of,’ I’m not sure he’s right on that,” he said. “But, I understand his point. I will say: This is one problem that we can’t get out of without drilling. And then we need to expand every other source of energy as well.”
King is reportedly taking the month of August off to teach Tiger Woods how to better shape a hook shot and give Hugh Hefner some hints on one-liners for picking up attractive, younger women. King will then review Warren Buffett’s mutual fund portfolio and show Bill Gates how to improve the latest version of Microsoft Word.
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