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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.
A new Gallup poll shows that Americans support extending federal unemployment benefits by a nearly 3-1 margin.
When asked what priorities they felt were most important for Congress to achieve during the lame duck session, 48 percent said extending unemployment benefits was very important and 28 percent said it was somewhat important. Only 24 percent said it was not important to them.
Congress is taking this week off for a Thanksgiving recess, reconvening on Nov. 29. The federal government has never in history failed to extend additional unemployment benefits with the jobless rate over 7.2 percent. The current rate is 9.6 percent.
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