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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.
The latest Rasmussen poll has more bad news for Democratic Gov. Chet Culver, showing only 41 percent approval and 57 disapproval.
In a head-to-head matchup with two potential GOP candidates, Culver loses to former Gov. Terry Branstad by 16 percentage points and Sioux City businessman Bob Vander Plaats by four percentage points. The poll has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.
Rasmussen’s poll is actually better news than last week’s Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, which found Culver with a 36 percent approval rating and losing to Branstad by 20 percentage points.
Research 2000 also polled Iowa and found Culver with a 42 percent approval rating and losing to Branstad by 16 percentage points.
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