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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.
Four Democratic candidates spoke and took questions from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Lance Armstrong, video questions from the web, and cancer survivors across the country in Cedar Rapids today. The event was billed as making the candidates “Answer to cancer.”
Cancer survivors were in attendance, and the audience in general was enthusiastically supportive of each promise of research and affordable or universal health care made by Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Bill Richardson and Dennis Kucinich.Afterwards, Lance Armstrong and several attendees remarked that the candidates were now on record for saying they would lead a fight against cancer.
In this video, Ohio presidential candidate Congressman Dennis Kucinich talks about who will be the beneficiaries of his plan. Lance Armstrong talks about two groups of Republican candidates for Tuesday’s forum, those attending and those who could not make it to the non-partisan event. And David McCluskey talks about surviving colorectal cancer, the absence of his candidate in tomorrow’s forum with Republicans, and his take on today’s Democratic forum.
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