Chuck Grassley can't seem to stop putting his foot in his mouth after the Kavanaugh hearings and vote. Last weekend, he was asked why there aren’t more Republican women on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “It’s a lot of work — maybe they (women) don’t want to do it,”...
While in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Senator Joni Ernst was questioned whether she believed that someone who committed sexual assault should be disqualified from serving on the Supreme Court. "Sexual assault is if they can prove it, absolutely," Ernst responded....
Yesterday was not a good day for America, to put it lightly. After President Donald Trump's disastrous press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country's attention shifted to Republican lawmakers and leaders, wondering if this was finally the bridge...
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is a national darling of the NRA's effort to eliminate any and all meaningful gun safety laws that might keep children like those at Parkland, Florida from getting blown to pieces on a regular school day. Ernst received over $3.1 million in...
Senator Joni Ernst expressed her frustration at Donald Trump's latest incendiary comments about not wanting immigration from certain "shithole countries," but defended the President against accusations of racism today. The exchange came at one of her town hall forums...
Senator Chuck Grassley took to Twitter this morning to personally apologize to President Donald Trump about not being to be able to fight for his tax plan on the House-Senate conference committee. Iowa's senior senator was apparently dropped from the committee that...
Non-millionaire Iowans who clearly have wasted too much of their hard-earned money on booze, women and movies descended upon Chuck Grassley's offices today to deliver empty bottles of alcohol to their esteemed senator. Actually, it was a protest organized by several...
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, who has led efforts to combat sexual assault in the military, sat quietly next to President Donald Trump today as he endorsed a man accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. At a meeting in the White House were senators were...
I try not to yell at the radio. I don’t like to scare passengers in my car or passing drivers. I try to stay calm. But I wasn’t just shouting when I heard Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s interview with National Public Radio host Robert Siegel on “All Things Considered”...
After pretending for a brief moment in 2016 that the Republican Party stood for working people, the Republican-controlled Congress reverted back to trickle-down form on Friday when they passed a tax reform bill that overwhelmingly favored the rich. Not to be outdone,...
