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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.
The Democratic Presidential Candidate Debate at Drake University this morning started with a bang as candidates were aggressively questioned by debate moderator George Stephanopoulous of ABC News, but overall it was largely a sedate affair that saw the field deepening their commitment to lines of attack they’d shallowly sketched during the Yearly Kos and AFL-CIO debates earlier this month, but not developing any new ones.
John Edwards continued to pursue his attack on Hillary Clinton for taking money from Washington lobbyists and once again sought to contrast his message of change with her years in Washington; Barack Obama continued his efforts to make the campaign about his judgment, rather than Clinton’s experience; Joe Biden continued to be the voice of foreign policy realism; Dennis Kucinich continued his movement into the role of liberal with a sense of humor; Mike Gravel continued his angry outburts; Bill Richardson and Chris Dodd continued to be regrettably forgettable; and Clinton continued to float above it all.
Offered the opportunity to go for the jugular in the debate’s opening moments, the whole field recoiled from ratcheting up the intensity of their attacks. With five months still to go before the caucuses, perhaps they sensed that pulling back from the brink is the only way to keep the race from descending into a slugfest at the very moment voters are starting to tune it in. Candidates are still running biography ads at this point, after all. There will be plenty of time for the hard hits later.
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