today's Fairfield Ledger: "According to Whitaker, two bills regarding the regulation of hog confinements are currently going through the House Agriculture Committee. In the House, Whitaker said 42 or 43 Democrats and two or three Republicans would support pure local control; however, those numbers increase when the discussion turns to changes."
http://tinyurl.com/22p8lq there are 100 reps in the Iowa house, so a vote to reinstate pure local control would fail
