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The Senate is due to vote Wednesday on the controversial deal to extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits that both due to expire soon.  Minnesota's U.S. Senators and others successfully pushed to add into that bill an extension of ethanol subsidies.  Minnesota is the country's fourth largest producer of ethanol.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Mike Jerke, the general manager of Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company.

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The Senate is due to vote Wednesday on the controversial deal to extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits that both due to expire soon.  Minnesota's U.S. Senators and others successfully pushed to add into that bill an extension of ethanol subsidies.  Minnesota is the country's fourth largest producer of ethanol.  MPR's Cathy Wurzer spoke with Mike Jerke, the general manager of Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company.


The Senate is due to vote Wednesday on the controversial deal to extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits that both due to expire soon.  Minnesota's U.S. Senators and others successfully pushed to add into that bill an extension of ethanol subsidies.  Minnesota is the country's fourth largest producer of ethanol.

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