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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.
Having followed Edwards for the past few days, it’s become clear that Edwards sees running against lobbyists as one of the most important planks of his platform. It has become a central part of his stump speech, and now his main line of attack against Clinton in this debate. Clinton, for her part, says that taking money from the people who employ lobbyists but not the lobbyists themselves puts too fine a point on the whole thing.
Dennis Kucinich raises the Humana question, then fails to complete his point. The health insurance company, highlighted by Michael Moore in his movie Sicko, was backed by the Fortress Investment Group, a hedge fund Edwards worked for after the 2004 election. Here’s The Nation piece Kucinich mentioned.
P.S. Where’s Obama again? After being the focus of the first round of questioning, Obama has faded into the background.
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