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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.
With unemployment tickling 10 percent (and likely to rise), Democrats in the U.S. Senate this week are hoping to push through a series of bills designed to encourage job creation. It’s as much a test of the Republicans’ commitment to bipartisanship as it is a gauge of the Democrats’ power to pass legislation in the wake of Scott Brown’s surprise Senate win in Massachusetts last month.
That is, with President Barack Obama reaching across the aisle in ways not seen in modern history — and with Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., insisting on crafting a jobs bill that can win the support of some pretty conservative Republicans, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Orrin Hatch of Utah — GOP leaders have little claim to their habitual complaint that the Democrats simply want to ram legislation through Congress without any Republican input.
So if we see stalling this week on a jobs bill, you can bet that it has less to do with the actual policy (all sides agree that struggling states need the help) than it does with the fact that the Republicans’ strategy has, for more than a year, been to delay legislation at all costs.
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