Joni Ernst

You simply can't get to net zero by 2050 without biofuels.

If we take advantage of biofuel, we have the ability to pursue an energy strategy that creates jobs and provides reliable and affordable energy to American families.

Inflation has created a hidden value-added tax on our small businesses in Iowa and throughout the country.

You do not get to create the laws.

Rest assured, members of this Committee will not stop seeking answers as to why over $77.9 million in taxpayer money was illegally given and now forgiven to Planned Parenthood.

No, thank you, and I appreciate you raising the issue of childcare.

It is the law. Secretary Mnuchin fulfilled this responsibility to do so. Secretary Yellen is nowhere to be found.

This week - weekend, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is leading a bipartisan delegation, of nine senators, to visit Poland, and Germany, to meet with U.S. Military leaders, NGOs, and Ukrainian refugees.

I also ask unanimous consent to engage in a colloquy with my colleague Senator Graham. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

So, folks, I`m a survivor. I know firsthand what happens when someone you trust abuses you.

I think that we would be more than happy to host one of those roundtables in our great State of Iowa.

I just want to reiterate my huge concerns with the Obama-era Navigable Waters, or Waters of the U.S. Rule.

I have continually fought for our farmers, and I am afraid we are now back in the same fight that we had over Waters of the United States.

They are increasing energy costs on American families; they are harming our international economic competitiveness, and they are placing unnecessary burdens on our Nation's taxpayers.

That is not really anything that our farmers are seeing on the ground.

I appreciate the smart decision, I do.

I would agree with the point that is being made by so many of my colleagues that this is a diversion away from 9/11, away from the 20th anniversary, and away from the debacle that was his Afghanistan withdrawal.

I would like to thank all of our witnesses for being here today and sharing information that is so important to all of us that reside and work in rural America.

In one of my 99 county tours in Iowa, in Northwest Iowa, very sparsely populated, it was brought to my attention that the wind turbines on a number of these properties, actually the taxes drawn from those wind turbines enabled that very…

Thank you, Chairwoman Smith and I am pleased to join you this morning for this hearing of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry's Subcommittee on Rural Development and Energy.

I rise to support my colleague and friend from New York in the call for the consideration of the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act. This is an effort whose time is well past due. For too long, our servicemembers…

We are pushing back against the federal government incentive for people to stay home.

It is critical that this Committee continues its work with the SBA to ensure that the COVID relief programs we have worked on so hard over the past year are administered effectively and with transparency.

Our success this morning shows that we can accomplish a lot when we work together and focus on real transportation infrastructure.

I think the likelihood of Roe v Wade being overturned is very minimal. I don`t see that happening.