Joni Ernst: “Never in my 30-plus years of farming did I feel the government was going to be a threat to me and my young son's farm…”

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

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.

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.

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