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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.
CARROLL — After speaking at a get-out-the-vote rally in Carroll Saturday, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, stood outside the Moose Lodge talking on his cell phone to a senate candidate thousands of miles away in, well, moose country.
Harkin told Iowa Independent that he was one of a few senators acting as a kind of a political “godfather” for Mark Begich, the mayor of Anchorage who is taking on convicted felon U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, in what is a tight race that could give the Democrats a filibuster-proof majority.
“It’s going very well for him,” Harkin said of Begich. “I think we’re going to pick up that Alaska seat. I think people just recognize that, you know, only five senators in the history of this country have ever been convicted of a felony. This is not going to sit well.”
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