Joni Ernst: “I think opportunities really is there.”

In Iowa, we believe in a simple rule: you plug in, you pay up.

While government boondoggles abound, the term is now officially in the law books for the first time. No politician wants their prized pet project to carry that label, but now there's no escaping it.

From the fields in Iowa to the battlefields in Iraq, I have worked my entire life. Unlike most of my colleagues in the Senate, I am not a millionaire. I know what it is like to live paycheck to paycheck.

Watt’s fair is fair—and passing these costs on to Iowans isn’t.