Joni Ernst: “I do want to thank you as well for the letter that was sent back to Chairman Cardin and I.”

“Doe a Deer has woven creativity, hard work, and community into every aspect of its business,” said Chair Ernst.

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.

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.

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