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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 tax proposals released by leading GOP candidates disproportionately affect women in the way they raise taxes on lower- and middle-income Americans, eliminate poverty aids and cut child-insurance programs.
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman has released a web video attacking Mitt Romney for his changing positions on issues important to the GOP base.
Herman Cain recently made contradictory statements about abortion that have ruffled social conservative feathers and might end his rise in the polls. Now the situation appears to be escalating as a 2006 controversial radio ad campaign has emerged to fan the flames.
Congress targets abortion for the second week in a row on Thursday, when the U.S. Senate is expected to debate an amendment recently filed by South Carolina’s Jim DeMint to a funding bill. If successful, the amendment would ban telemedicine discussions of abortion.
Ron Paul was declared the winner of the 2011 Values Voter Summit straw poll, taking 37 percent of the vote.
Glenn Beck, ardent supporter of the tea party movement, spent the majority of his speech at the Values Voter Summit attacking the occupy movement.
The American Family Association’s president, Bryan Fischer, delivered a Values Voter Summit speech rife with rhetoric some have called “unmitigated bigotry” and what presidential hopeful Mitt Romney indirectly called out as “poisonous.”
Radio host Bill Bennett had strong words for Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress during his comments at Saturday’s Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., saying that statements Jeffress made against Mitt Romney’s religion were inappropriate and ultimately took away from the pastor’s endorsement of Rick Perry.
A controversial pastor who introduced Rick Perry at the Values Voter Summit also handed the Texas governor an endorsement, saying that Perry deserve the presidency because he has a “strong commitment to biblical values.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional Republicans may have began with the economy, but quickly moved on to the predominant religious conservative issues of marriage and abortion during their Friday presentations at the ongoing three-day Values Voter Summit.
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