Joni Ernst: “I know of no further debate on my amendment. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there further debate? If not, the…”

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.

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

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.