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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 Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors right-wing extremist activity, finds “that an astonishing 363 new Patriot groups appeared in 2009, with the totals going from 149 groups (including 42 militias) to 512 (127 of them militias) — a 244 percent jump” from 2008.
Paul’s quixotic 2008 bid for president created a growing movement of libertarian-minded teens and twentysomethings whose role in the conservative coalition will become more clear outside of CPAC.
CNN has a much-needed and revealing poll on the Tea Party movement, with full breakdowns available at their site that reveal — no huge surprise — that it looks like a subsection of the Republican Party. The headline: Eleven percent of Americans have given some kind of support to the movement, with 5 percent attending [...]
The paranoid, mysterious Judson Phillips in the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention gave way to the real, jovial Phillips this weekend.
Liberal blog Daily Kos and polling firm Research 2000 asked more than 2,000 self-identified Republicans about some of their more controversial beliefs, and the results are up now.
Freeze in spending is a good start but must be paired with “cutting things or just turning back the TARP money,” U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said.
At a mid-day press conference in the nation’s capital, U.S. Reps. Steve King, R-Iowa, and Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., launched their “Declaration of Health Care Independence” — a statement of principles that they hoped Democrats and voters would sign onto, but not one that would be backed by legislation or one that could be posted at their Web sites.
At a press availability Wednesday, I asked U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, about the arrest of anti-ACORN muckraker James O’Keefe and what it meant for Republicans, like him, who’d partially based a case against the community group on O’Keefe’s reporting. Lee Fang of ThinkProgress asked further questions. All of that is in this video.
Greg Sargent hears something similar to what I’m hearing about Republican plans for a possible Democratic push to pass elements of health care reform through reconciliation.
“You watch,” said FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon. “This is the idea that’s going to change the election.”
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