Sugar Price War Revived as U.S. Senators Seek Cheap Candy
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A group of lawmakers is using a day set aside for the exchange of Valentines to propose cuts in U.S. price supports for sugar, a commodity that has triggered policy disputes since the British ruled the Colonies.
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, a Democrat whose effort to lower sugar aid failed in last year’s farm-bill debate, joined Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk and other lawmakers to back a bill that would mostly return to the sweetener policy in place before current agricultural law passed in 2008. The growers’ American Sugar Alliance says the proposal may cause some producers to fail.