WASHINGTON, D.C. - ?U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) is today demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after failing to receive a response over her initial...
By James Lynch
Members of Iowa’s U.S. congressional delegation want to know why an Iowa veteran who committed suicide reportedly was denied admittance to the Iowa City...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today announced she will hold a roundtable discussion in Cedar Falls with Iowa veterans and community leaders. “Our veterans have...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new government spending report by a non-profit organization states that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has spent $20 million on costly artwork between...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today released the following statement after voting in favor of the conference report on the Zika Prevention and Response...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), a combat veteran, applauded the signing of their bill, the Female Veterans Suicide Prevention Act (S. 2487), into law. This...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) issued a statement in response to the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) report on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
By Mark Newman
OTTUMWA — When you hear “veteran” suicide, the vet you picture in your mind may be a man. Yet both men and women are treated locally for trauma...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today released the following statement after voting in favor of the conference report on the Fiscal Year 2017 Military...
OTTUMWA — When you hear “veteran” suicide, the vet you picture in your mind may be a man. Yet both men and women are treated locally for trauma they suffered in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), a combat veteran, today applauded passage of the Female Veteran Suicide Prevention Act (S. 2487) in the U.S. House of...
An internal audit, conducted in June 2014 by the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that more than 120,000 veterans waited at least 90 days for appointments for health care, or...
A June 2014 internal audit by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) found that more than 120,000 veterans waited at least 90 days for appointments for health care or never...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today announced she will hold a roundtable discussion in Woodbury County with Iowa veterans and community leaders as part of her...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today released the following statement after voting in favor of the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA),...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today released the following statement after President Obama signed into law the Iowa delegation’s legislation to name a Cedar...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), an alum of the Iowa State University United States Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), released the following statement...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) today took to the Senate floor to encourage her colleagues to support the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed...
In yesterday’s (Wednesday’s) legislative session, Senator Joni Ernst joined several other Senators in praising the unanimous passage of the Female Veteran Suicide...
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Joni Ernst (R-IA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today praised the Senate's unanimous passage of the...