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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.
Only 62 Republicans in the U.S. House have signed on as co-sponsors of U.S. Rep. Steve King’s bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a situation he says can be blamed on a divided Republican Party.
The Washington Post’s Dave Weigel points out that a similar bill, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is also having trouble gaining traction, picking up only 52 co-sponsors. Bachmann and King have led the charge for 100 percent repeal of health care legislation, with King saying repeatedly that this is an “all or nothing fight.”
But it now appears the Kiron Republican isn’t so optimistic about his chances.
From the Post:
“What I run into,” King told me recently, “is that you ask Republicans to support 100 percent full repeal, but there are a number of them that aren’t committed to full repeal. They have an equivocation that they would leave a piece there, a piece there, a piece there. If Republicans cannot unanimously come together and support 100 percent repeal of Obamacare and then start to rebuild, then we will not win this victory, because we’ll be divided by the Democrats and fighting on Obama’s turf.”
Shortly after passage, many Republican lawmakers began to back off their push for full repeal of health care legislation, calling instead for “big changes” to the bill or simply cutting off funding for some provisions. U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said repeal is “not going to happen.“
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