Sen. Joni Ernst told a crowd of constituents at a recent town hall meeting her "commitment to rural America is very strong" because she lives in rural Iowa. Josh Dahle challenged that statement, explaining to Ernst how the Affordable Care Act benefited a rural...
President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have taken it upon themselves to stack the federal courts with conservative judges, an effort Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst has aided in lockstep. Ernst, Iowa's junior U.S. senator, was appointed to the...
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst said she and Senator Chuck Grassley were able to slip messages about the Environmental Protection Agency’s proliferation of the Small Refinery Exemptions to Ambassador to China Terry Branstad before he met with President Donald Trump on...
In the wake of news an Iowa-based biofuels producer will cut jobs and production due to the Environmental Protection Agency's proliferation of "Small Refinery Exemptions" for oil companies, Iowa congresswoman Cindy Axne called for a federal investigation into the...
Christie Vilsack, the former First Lady of Iowa, has weighed in on Democrats' effort to win a seat in the U.S. Senate with her endorsement today of Theresa Greenfield. "With all the gridlock and mudslinging in Washington, Theresa Greenfield is exactly the kind of...
All eyes will turn to the Senate in September when lawmakers return to the Capitol with a host of issues to tackle, chief among them gun safety legislation already approved by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives. In the wake of two August mass...
It was early Saturday morning, and Jessica Birch didn't feel like getting out of bed. Hungover and tired, the 21-year-old University of Northern Iowa student could easily have turned off her alarm. But the night before, she saw a Facebook event for Congressman...
Questions on gun violence and the 2nd Amendment dominated a contentious town hall forum with Senator Joni Ernst in Johnston this morning. Over half the audience members who asked Ernst about various policies pressed her on her gun rights stance. Though Ernst...
For Iowans, politics at the State Fair is as inevitable as enjoying fried food on a stick. Like it or not, it's there, and nearly inescapable. On Saturday, fairgoers won't bump into many people running for president, but they might see Sen. Joni Ernst — on a...
Just hours after Congressman Steve King made offensive comments about rape and incest this morning, he was confronted by a constituent over a real-life example of incestuous rape in his district. Katie Koehler, a retired Mason City public school teacher, told King...
