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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.
Michele Bachmann
In the poll, the Minnesota Republican got 24 percent of the vote, ahead of Herman Cain and Mitt Romney, who each got 15 percent, the Washington Times reports.
Though Bachmann is well liked among Republican primary voters, they don’t expect her to get the nomination. Only 7 percent predicted she would win, while Romney — who has led most polls — is predicted by 37 percent of GOP voters to win the nomination.
Bachmann’s performance at the first GOP presidential debate was widely considered to have helped her campaign. A Rasmussen poll released last week following the debate showed Bachmann surging to second place with 19 percent. She had previously been polling in the single digits.
At some point on Wednesday, the Bachmann campaign is expected to announce details of a Monday stop in Waterloo, the Congresswoman’s hometown, where she is expected to officially enter the GOP race for the White House.
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