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April 17, 2025
Ernst: California wants to ban our bacon? Not on my watch.
Originally published in Washington Examiner California is home to high taxes, billion dollar boondoggles, and a liberal agenda. Clearly, the folks there shouldn’t be calling the... -
March 28, 2025
Ernst: In Celebration of Iowa Agriculture
In Iowa, agriculture connects us all. Those of us who live on farms, in rural communities, and even in cities across our great state are fortunate to have a deep-rooted... -
Happy Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of openness in government! Information provides the power to hold the powerful accountable. Notably, during the Biden administration,...
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February 07, 2025
Ernst: Kelly Loeffler is the champion small businesses need
Originally published in Washington Examiner In Iowa and across the country, Main Street is in trouble. Small businesses are the lifeblood of communities, but under former President... -
January 31, 2025
Sarah’s Law is Law of the Land
Nine years ago today, our state faced the loss of one of our own. A young Iowan, Sarah Root, was killed by an illegal immigrant driving drunk. While this day will always be a... -
January 17, 2025
New Year, New Congress, Same Dedication to Serving Iowans
When I look back on 2024, one of my highlights was connecting with Iowans on my River to River Tour. I celebrated a decade of crisscrossing Iowa from the Mississippi River to the... -
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...
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