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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.
Congressman Tom Tancredo, Know Nothing-Colo., titles his book “In Mortal Danger,” and now he’s taking on the mortal danger of … babies?
The presidential candidate has introduced a bill that would strip citizenship from babies born to undocumented residents. Instead, those children would only become citizens when one parent is a citizen or permanent legal resident.
There may be a little problem: The 14th Amendment to the Constitution says “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”The provision might seem silly to constitutional scholars, or indeed to anyone who’s actually read the Constitution. But it resonates in the GOP base. At a recent Iowa City appearance by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, one woman raised the issue during the question period, winning some applause with her claims that “planeloads and planeloads of pregnant women” are flying into the U.S. simply to give birth.
The Denver Post reports additional provisionsin Tancredo’s bill:
Tancredo’s bill has no co-sponsors.
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