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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 Iowa House has begun debate on House File 525, a bill that makes changes to the state’s collective bargaining laws for public employees. More than 100 amendments, mostly introduced by Democrats, have been attached to the measure, meaning debate could stretch on into the evening.
The Washington Post reports Wednesday morning that veteran Iowa political strategist Eric Woolson has signed on to be part of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s presidential campaign.
Legislation that would end a universal, state-funded preschool program and replace it with a voucher system was passed by the Iowa House Tuesday on a 55-45 vote.
Democrats’ push to expand entitlement programs is just an attempt to get Americans hooked on federal spending just “like a drug dealer,” former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Monday night at the annual Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition fundraiser.
Nearly 1,000 labor union members and their supporters rallied in the state Capitol Monday, voicing their opposition to proposed legislation that would weaken collective bargaining rights for Iowa’s public employees.
The Iowa House will hold a hearing on House File 525 will be held Monday night from 6 to 8:15 p.m. Starting at 5 p.m., labor unions members and their supporters are rallying in the state Capitol in the hopes of killing the legislation that would weaken the state’s collective bargaining laws for public employees.
A public hearing on legislation that would alter collective bargaining rights for Iowa’s public employees, and a rally to protest the bill, will be broadcast live online by the state Senate Democrats.
Legislation that would require anyone running for president to produce a birth certificate and make it available for public inspection was introduced this week by state Sen. Kent Sorenson (R-Indianola), however the bill is considered dead this session.
The four people appointed to the state’s Environmental Protection Commission all have ties to the factory farm industry and will likely “put the interests of corporate agriculture over the interests of every day Iowans,” said Adam Mason, state policy organizing director for Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement.
A glance at headlines from around the state and nation.
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