Joni Ernst

This is one of the most important Committees, I feel, to making sure that we honor our commitments to the men and women that have served in our Nation's military.

I think we have a lot of, as I said, talent and abilities that could be better utilized on or with an active duty force.

I did lead a number of my colleagues in a letter regarding our concern for Russia's activities near some of our underwater cables.

If we fail to embrace biotechnology as a safe, affordable, and timely way to bring better food production methods to developing and unstable nations, we are ultimately putting our military and our country at greater risk.

It is the political decision to include the Sunnis that becomes the lynchpin for success of the indigenous force.

I am troubled that the Iraqi government has entered into this information-sharing agreement.

I think it portends a statement he's not making publicly, that the United States is not supporting him in a way that he needs.

This agreement caught the administration by surprise.

We're losing 8,200 National Guard soldiers. We're being cut 1100 dual-status technicians.

I am extremely frustrated with the cost overruns, not being on time. There's no excuse.

This has got to be corrected, and somebody needs to be held accountable.

This is an epidemic, and we've got to do something about it.

The 90 percent solution on time is better than the 100-percent solution too late.

Wasteful, wasteful spending. We have to do better for our taxpayers.

I will echo what you said about all levels of government.

I am going to hit one other agency that I think has the potential to do so much good for so many men and women that have put their hand up and sworn to defend and uphold our Constitution and defend our freedoms here in the great United…

Do you think an agency like the VA should be spending $562,000 on art work in one week?

I did not think that is what the Federal student loan program was for.

I think we are failing in this effort.

I am encouraging OSHA to open this up to formal rulemaking.

I will stop you right there. One, then, it sounds like maybe we should have gone through the rulemaking process rather than doing a memorandum on this if we are engaging the public in such a manner.

If we are going through a 2-year process engaging the public, then it should be through a formal rulemaking process.

But, again, two separate substances, and we are responding to a situation that certainly needed some guidance to fill some gaps, but what the agency ended up doing was covering a whole other group of chemicals where there has not been…

Who is holding their feet to the fire?

We have a corrupt and broken VA system.