Corn is still king in the Senate

Published July 28, 2009 4:00am ET



Senator Barack Obama was a fierce advocate of corn ethanol, but after winning Iowa, he has moderated his stance. In fact, he even nominated an ambassador to Brazil who doesn’t support our tarrifs that keep out foreign ethanol.

But that makes the nominee, Thomas Shannon, unpalatable to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, according to Congress Daily and Foreign Policy.

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