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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.
Following his commanding re-election Tuesday U.S. Rep, Steve King, R-Iowa, told the Omaha World-Herald that the night was a bittersweet one as he retains concerns that President-elect Barack Obama ascendency to the highest office in the nation will embolden foreign terrorists to do harm to the United States.
In highly controversial remarks in the campaign season King said that if Obama is elected “al-Qaeda and the radical Islamists and their supporters will be dancing in the streets in greater numbers than they did on September 11.”
King told the World-Herald he’s standing by those words.
“I made my prediction,” King said. “I made it in March, and I stand by the words I said then.”
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