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December 20, 2024
Biden’s Christmas Gift to the Bah Humbug Bureaucrats: Another Four-Year Staycation Away from the Office
In the Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol,” three ghosts show up on Christmas Eve and go to work trying to convince Scrooge to change his ways.That’s better in-person... -
WASHINGTON – In response to the tragic news that Iran-backed Hamas has killed American hostage Omer Neutra, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) released the following statement: “As a...
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November 27, 2024
Let’s Talk Turkey!
My fellow Iowans sent me to the Senate ten years ago to make the porkers squeal. It’s been a very lonely fight. Even in this era of political polarization, Democrats and... -
October 25, 2024
Biden-Harris More Effective Arming Our Enemies Than Our Allies
Products arrived damaged and moldy. Equipment was unserviceable and poorly packaged. The shelf life on some items already expired. Other parts were delivered in the incorrect... -
September 27, 2024
Ernst: Biden-Harris Undervaluing our Heroes and Underwriting our Adversaries
Vice President Kamala Harris laughs off her flip-flopping on issue after issue by insisting her positions may be shifty, but her “values have not changed.” So how do we even know... -
August 30, 2024
Ernst: Get the Lead Out
Don’t drink the water! That’s my advice if you’re visiting a government building any time soon. Despite the Biden-Harris administration’s promise that “every American should be... -
August 23, 2024
Ernst: Nothing Compares… to an Updated Farm Bill
Agriculture is at the heart of the Iowa State Fair Every August, more than a million people from around the globe converge in Des Moines for eleven Amazingly Amusing days filled... -
August 16, 2024
Empowering Iowa Small Businesses to Support America
Innovation should not just come from Washington when it is thriving right here in the heartland. In Iowa, small businesses make up 99% of businesses and employ more than 50% of the... -
August 02, 2024
Ernst: Stand With Israel, Bring American Hostages Home
Today, eight of our fellow citizens are still being held in Gaza by the ruthless terror regime that wants nothing more than the death and destruction of Israel and the United... -
July 22, 2024
Ernst: Reining in Washington’s Overreach
Our government is supposed to be “by the people and for the people.” Unfortunately, an obscure Supreme Court decision made four decades ago effectively handcuffed citizens and... -
June 21, 2024
Digging Holes
Joe Biden wants you to know he is spending your money—and lots of it—by putting up thousands of billboards along roads and other publicly funded projects over the country declaring... -
May 31, 2024
Ernst: Batting 1000
We are batting a thousand, folks! First, we defunded China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Then we clipped the wings of EcoHealth Alliance (EHA), the shady group that was... -
May 27, 2024
Ernst: Government employees need to get back to work
Originally published in Washington Examiner Government employees showing up for work shouldn’t make headlines. But recently, it has. Bureaucrats from the Department of... -
May 03, 2024
Ernst: Ensuring ACCESS for Iowa’s Small Businesses
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, comprising 99.9% of all American businesses and employing nearly half of our nation’s workforce. They produce 16.5 times more... -
April 29, 2024
Ernst: Terminating AI Funding to Our Adversaries
Artificial intelligence (AI) was engineered to make our lives easier but poses the possibility of being twisted into menacing machines that wage war against mankind. At least, it’s... -
April 23, 2024
Ernst: Biden’s Border Nightmare
Biden’s border is a nightmare, but Senate Democrats refuse to wake up and address the crisis. Hardly a day goes by without hearing of another American who has fallen victim to... -
April 16, 2024
Shining a Light on Secret Spending
Bureaucrats were busted trying to bamboozle taxpayers by hiding the shocking price tag of a pork project pushed by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and President Biden. A... -
April 16, 2024
Give Homegrown Iowa Biofuels the Green Light
Spring is slowly but surely spreading across our great state, and that means one thing is certain: summer will be here before we know it. Many Iowans will spend their summers on... -
April 16, 2024
Ending Taxpayer-Funded Terrorism
Imagine paying for a security system that enables, rather than deters, home intruders. Well folks, that’s what’s happening. The U.S. contributes more than $18 billion in taxpayer... -
Despite President Biden begging bureaucrats to return to work, government buildings remain largely abandoned, and Washington, D.C. is a ghost town. Agency heads have mysteriously...
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