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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.
Iowa is one of eight states that will lose a Congressional seat in 2010, according to analysis of U.S. Census estimates by USA Today.
The Hawkeye State joins Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania in the unenviable category of states likely to be on the losing end of reapportionment. However, the predictions are far from definitive.
The recent data show big fluctuations in migration trends in the past year. Because of that, it’s becoming more difficult to predict what state populations will be in 2010.
“We’re seeing some flux and shifts from what we’ve seen before in these new Census numbers,” Brace says. “That will definitely impact the apportionment process.”
U.S. Census figures released today show Iowa’s population has topped three million, up 0.6 percent from 2007. That makes Iowa the 33rd fastest growing state in the nation.
The latest predictions show Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Utah each gaining one Congressional seat and Texas gaining three seats.
Seats in the U.S. House are reallocated every 10 years. Iowa lost one of its Congressional seats after the 2000 Census.
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