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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 current employment-based immigration system is dysfunctional and needs reform, panelists and lawmakers stated at a Senate Judiciary committee hearing on Tuesday. Judiciary Chair Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) presided over the hearing, which heard testimony from leaders in the business, higher education and immigrant communities, as well as three American mayors.
Herman Cain returns to Iowa Monday following a staff hiccup to open his state headquarters and speak with Scott County Republican Women, but he’ll be doing so under the glare of the GOP Hispanic community.
URBANDALE — Tim Pawlenty defended his nice guy demeanor on the Iowa campaign trail Thursday while pledging to repeal “Obamacare in its entirety” and have the U.S. “stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel.”
Jeb Bush Jr. recently launched Florida Hispanic Outreach, also known as SunPAC, and hopes to use the group to organize Hispanics in Florida and throughout the nation for conservative candidates.
U.S. Rep. Steve King doesn’t think much about race or ethnicity, according to an interview with Lorena Lopez of Iowa’s LA PRENSA Hispanic newspaper, but considers each person individually.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced changes to the embattled enforcement program Secure Communities, which allows local law enforcement agencies to check local individuals against federal immigration and criminal databases.
The Iowa Tea Party kicks off its three-week bus tour across the Hawkeye State today in Council Bluffs, with an appearance by former New Mexico governor and GOP candidate Gary Johnson. So far, confirmed guests include U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), Atlanta businessman Herman Cain and former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Bus-tour organizers said they are still waiting for confirmation from former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s and former Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s staffs.
President Barack Obama is expected to create a new advisory council Thursday that will focus on quality of life and economic issues facing rural America. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, former Iowa governor, will likely lead the effort.
A glimpse at headlines from around the state and nation.
PELLA — “We have an oil crisis, an energy crisis, an immigration crisis, an entitlement spending crisis, and foreign policy crisis. We have a deficiency of leadership crisis. Nothing gets fixed in D.C. These crises — that’s the attack on the family,” Herman Cain told attendees at an event organized by The Family Leader.
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