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Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Northwestern Steakhouse
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, announced her Small Business of the Week: Northwestern Steakhouse of Cerro Gordo County.
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Ernst to Host Town Hall Meeting in Clayton County
On Friday, July 14, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) will host a town hall meeting in Clayton County. Senator Ernst looks forward to hearing from constituents in the area about the issues most important to them. This
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Ernst on SCOTUS Declaring Biden’s Student Loan Bailout Illegal
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) released the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled that President Joe Biden’s $400 billion student loan bailout is illegal.
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ICYMI: Washington has sent more than $1.3 billion to China and Russia. Who's following the money?
Washington is borrowing money from China to give to China.
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ICYMI: Ernst Provisions Included in SASC-Passed Defense Bill
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), advanced several provisions to strengthen U.S. national security, support our servicemembers, and combat rising threats.
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Ernst: Biden’s SBA Must Recover Fraud, Not Loosen Lending Standards
The Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Inspector General released the first comprehensive fraud estimate for SBA’s COVID programs.
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Ernst Names Small Business of the Week, Hy-Capacity
Throughout this Congress, Ranking Member Ernst plans to recognize a small business in every one of Iowa’s 99 counties.
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Ernst, Kaine Solution to Fentanyl Crisis Advances in Armed Services Committee
Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) advanced their bipartisan solution to address the fentanyl crisis as a national security threat in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024.
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Ernst One Step Closer to Banning Defense Dollars to Researchers Who May Have Leaked COVID-19; Launching Investigation Pinpointing Other Potential Pandemic-Causing Projects
China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance, the group that funneled nearly $2 million of U.S. taxpayer money into the lab for dangerous coronavirus experiments that may have caused the COVID-19 pandemic, is one step closer to being permanently banned from receiving Department of Defense (DoD) dollars as a result of U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) successfully attaching her amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that passed the Senate Armed Services Committee this week.
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Ernst Fights for Women’s Sports with Athletes Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, Payton McNabb
During the week of the anniversary of Title IX, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) joined Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) in support of athletes Riley Gaines, Paula Scanlan, and Payton McNabb, who are sounding the alarm on the Biden administration’s effort to force women to compete against biological men in sports, robbing female athletes of dignity, privacy, and critical scholarships and titles.
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Ernst Counters Biden Admin Rule Turning Law-Abiding Gunowners into Felons
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a strong supporter of Iowans’ Second Amendment rights, voted to nullify the Biden administration’s anti-Second Amendment pistol brace rule.
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Ernst: Biden’s EPA refuses to recognize the domestic, homegrown solution readily available today
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) released the following statement after the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) volumes impacting Iowa’s biofuel industry.
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Ernst: Who in Washington knew what happened in Wuhan? Why did they cover it up? How much did it cost the American taxpayers?
As early as February 2020, the heads of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including Dr. Fauci, were aware the virus that causes COVID-19 may have been manipulated in a lab and then leaked.
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ICYMI: Ernst Works to Counter China in Face of Biden Admin’s Weakness
Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is taking action to counter the increasing threat of China in our own backyard as the Biden administration continues to double down on its appeasement strategy toward the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Ernst Fights for Female Soldiers Who Played Critical Roles in Afghanistan and Iraq
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), the first female combat veteran elected to the U.S. Senate, is leading a bipartisan charge to amend military records of female veterans who deployed alongside Special Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq to ensure they accurately reflect their work as members of Cultural Support Teams (CST). These female veterans shared similar operational experiences as their male peers but have not been recognized for their combat service, denying them rank, benefits, and critical healthcare services.
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Ernst Works to Address Childcare Access in Rural Iowa
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is supporting the bipartisan, bicameral Expanding Childcare in Rural America (ECRA) Act of 2023 to expand childcare access in agricultural and rural communities.
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Ranking Member Ernst Works to Overhaul, Refocus Failing SBA Entrepreneurship Program
The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) program, one of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) core entrepreneurial development programs, has been plagued by poor performance, waste, and ongoing failures to reach women-owned entrepreneurs and small businesses in rural America.
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Ernst: Your taxpayer dollars should NOT fund our foreign adversaries
On JUNE 7, 2023, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) called out the Biden administration and federal bureaucrats for out-of-control spending without proper oversight and transparency.
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Ernst Slams Biden’s Nominee for Deputy Administrator of the SBA
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, slammed Biden’s nominee to be Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) for his failure to be transparent with the committee, unwillingness to decrease burdensome regulations, and concerns about his commitment to fully recover fraudulent SBA COVID funds.
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Ernst Works to Cut Funding to Outlaw Organizations Disregarding Federal Law
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is fighting to stop taxpayer funding of organizations that disregard the law, such as EcoHealth Alliance, which refuses to provide information about the dangerous experiments on bat coronaviruses conducted in China’s state-run Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) with U.S. tax dollars.