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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.
Don Blankenship, the pugnacious head of Massey Energy, will appear before the Senate Labor Committee next Thursday, the committee just announced. He’ll be sitting on a two-man panel that will also include a long-time nemesis, Cecil Roberts, head of the United Mine Workers for America.
Some troubling findings Thursday out of the Woodstock Institute, which examined home lending trends in seven major cities to discover that banks have scaled back prime loans to minority communities at a much quicker clip than they’ve reduced those same loans in predominately white neighborhoods.
More than half the country opposes allowing people to carry loaded firearms in public places, according to a poll released today by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. Leaders of the gun reform group say that the findings offer a terse warning to lawmakers who, facing pressure from the hugely influential National Rifle Association, [...]
The nation’s unemployment picture might be improving, but the country remains in an enormous jobs hole that will take years to scratch out of. And some U.S. House Democrats are wondering why the White House isn’t making the issue its top priority.
U.S. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have issued a joint statement announcing the unveiling of the long-awaited climate change legislation on Wednesday. Notably, their statement doesn’t begin with the topic of climate change, but with a long mention of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the lone Republican to show interest [...]
As Congress continues to negotiate unemployment benefits legislation, Bloomberg has a story this week noting what few others have: that the so-called extension of benefits isn’t really an extension of benefits at all. Rather, it’s an extension of the filing deadline to apply for existing benefits, which have been capped at a maximum 99 weeks [...]
There were calls to close it in the wake of the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, and there were more calls to close it in 2007, following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech. But so far, Congress has done nothing to address the gun show loophole, which allows unlicensed gun vendors to sell firearms [...]
Thursday night, Congress passed — and President Barack Obama signed into law — legislation that provides a short-term benefit extension for the long-term unemployed. The bill is designed to allow lawmakers more time to negotiate a longer-term benefit extension for the long-term unemployed. Confusing? You bet.
In a swift train of events, the Senate last night passed a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits, which the House approved a few hours later and President Barack Obama signed into law shortly afterward. “In these tough economic times,” Obama said, ”it is more critical than ever to bring relief to Americans who are working every [...]
They’ve been stalled on it for weeks, but Thursday night the Senate will vote on final passage of legislation providing a short-term extension of emergency unemployment benefits. Republicans, behind U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, have been fighting the $18 billion proposal because the Democrats didn’t offset the cost with spending cuts elsewhere. But the [...]
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