Joni Ernst: “That has already warned, for example, the Burmese Government to reduce the size of the deep-sea port that China has…”

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.

Fraud is not a victimless crime, either.

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.