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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 health care reform on the back burner following Republican Scott Brown’s Senate win in Massachusetts last month, more and more Republicans are predicting it will remain there unless Democrats agree to scrap the existing bill in favor of something bipartisan.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told reporters Tuesday that the chances of returning to health reform “are not very good unless the White House is willing to start over.”
That’s the same message coming from House GOP leaders, who have threatened to boycott the coming White House health care summit unless the Democrats are willing to start anew.
The White House, for its part, has said it’s not willing to start over. The impasse, of course, is the reason that the health summit was called to begin with. That will provide a high-profile forum for each side to make its case. Grassley’s words, though, only reinforce the growing sense that, on health care reform, the Democrats and Republicans have agreed to disagree.
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