Joni Ernst is a Republican senator from Iowa. A former state senator, she won the 2014 GOP primary for an open U.S. Senate seat and defeated Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley in November. She was sworn into Congress in January 2015, replacing long-time Senator Tom Harkin.
Joni Ernst“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says with the supersized staff, the IRS audit rate ‘would rise for ALL taxpayers’ regardless of income, and would even…
$3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials."
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“Gas prices have been going up since the president’s first day in office, starting with his move to shut down the Keystone XL pipeline.”
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In Iowa, “since we have put a number of the voting laws into place over the last several years — voter ID is one of…
“I have been very clear with DACA. Even in my campaign six years ago I stood for those Dreamers.”
Says she is ranked "one of the most bipartisan senators in the Senate in the last 25 years."
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"At $93 trillion, the Green New Deal would cost more than the entire recorded spending of the U.S. since the Constitution went into effect in…
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The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."
"A strong majority of Americans support" the Keystone XL pipeline.
"Iowa has the fourth fastest-growing personal income in the United States, while nationally, the real wage has decreased over the past eight years that Congressman…