Joni Ernst: “Our success this morning shows that we can accomplish a lot when we work together and focus on real transportation…”

Because unemployment programs are funded primarily by taxing employers, this federal mandate is effectively a reverse Robin Hood tax that takes from struggling small businesses to give to the idle rich and self-sufficient.

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

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.

We owe it to all Americans to stop the government grift.