In a Feb. 15 news release, Sen. Joni Ernst criticized a federal harm reduction program, which would provide $30 million in grants funded by the American Rescue Plan to increase access to services and support to reduce drug overdoses and other public health challenges associated with drug use.
The Collective PAC, which works to increase Black Americans’ engagement in politics, endorsed Deidre DeJear’s campaign for governor.
Sen. Joni Ernst has been calling on the Biden administration to impose tougher sanctions on Russia now as a deterrent to an invasion. “We need to start pushing back now ... We need to prevent an invasion.”
The center has received about 205 Afghan refugees since October and is expected that to grow to at least 250 this year. That’s in addition to an expected 150 “typical” refugees the Catherine McCuley Center serves.
Republican members of Iowa's congressional delegation claimed Tuesday that Democrats are manufacturing a voting crisis in order to exert more control from Washington, D.C.
The bill — which provides a 2.7 percent increase in military basic pay — also includes changes to how the military prosecutes certain crimes like sexual assault, although members of Iowa’s GOP delegation says it does not go far enough.
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst voted Wednesday to pass a Senate resolution that would invalidate President Joe Biden’s vaccine or test mandates for private employers.
Republicans have been eager to blame rising prices on President Joe Biden and a new animated video Sen. Joni Ernst tweeted Nov. 23 does just that.
Bipartisan letter expresses disappointment with the Pentagon’s proposed timeline for implementing measures to combat sexual assault in the military.
Legislation would honor military members, diplomats and humanitarian service in Afghanistan. Despite the chaotic end of operations, their resolution says their service “is something to be remembered, lauded, and honored.”
Now the challenge for the U.S. to ensure that Americans, regardless of where they are in Afghanistan, can get to Kabul to be airlifted out of the country, Ernst said. “If they can't get the Kabul they can't get out,. You can't get to the airport, you can't get out.”
Iowa’s only national heritage area seeking $700,00 to fund work with more than 100 affiliates, generate more than $300 million in economic activity.
Iowa Republican gives July 2021 Squeal Award to federal Department of Transportation for spending on a “bottomless pit for taxpayer money.”
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst met with funeral home directors and those associated with Powell Funeral Homes in Keota, a fifth-generation …
But disagreement over how it’s defined and how it’s paid for it are likely to continue to push back the arrival of infrastructure week, according to members of Iowa congressional delegation.
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