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Joni Ernst

Joni Kay Ernst (née Culver, July 1, 1970) is an American politician and former military officer serving as the junior United States Senator for Iowa since 2015. A Republican, she served in the Iowa Senate from 2011 to 2014. She served in the Iowa Army National Guard from 1993 to 2015, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. Ernst is the first woman to represent Iowa in Congress and the first female combat veteran elected to the United States Senate from any state. She was elected vice chair of the United States Senate Republican Conference in November 2018.

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Born

1970-07-01

Birth Place

Red Oak, Iowa, U.S.

Education

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January 2019

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The Des Moines Register

Chuck Grassley votes against bipartisan U.S. Senate gun bill, Joni Ernst votes for it

Iowa's U.S. senators were on opposite sides of a vote on a bipartisan gun safety bill Thursday, with Chuck Grassley voting against the measure and Joni Ernst voting in favor. Grassley, a Republican who faces Democrat Mike Franken in his bid for reelection this year, told reporters Wednesday that he hadn't decided how to...

IOWA STATE13 DAYS AGO

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Checking Joni Ernst newsletter

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, has been especially active on border policies, writing in a May 28 newsletter: "Well here's something you may not know your tax dollars are being spent on: unused border wall materials." She cited a Republican-authored report estimated that $3 million per day was being spent.

CONGRESS & COURTS16 DAYS AGO

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Joni Ernst meets with Latino IQ to discuss revitalizing Greene County

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, visited Jefferson last Tuesday, June 7 to host a Workforce Development Roundtable, and discussed methods on revitalizing and bringing more traffic to Greene County . Ernst met with community leaders to address the workplace shortage taking place in Iowa, and methods to bring more traffic...

GREENE COUNTY, IA14 DAYS AGO

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U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst visits Corteva Agriscience in Tama Co.

U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) made a stop at the Corteva Agriscience facility located in northern Tama County on the outskirts of Dysart last Friday, in order to learn more about recent efforts meant to support farmers and agriculture workers. Ernst was available at the end of the closed tour...

TAMA COUNTY, IA20 DAYS AGO

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Grassley, Joni Ernst taking wait-and-see approach on proposed gun legislation

DES MOINES — Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst, Iowa’s Republican U.S. senators, are waiting to see the final version of bipartisan legislation containing modest gun control proposals before stating whether they will support it. The legislation was the result of two weeks of negotiations between a bipartisan group...

DES MOINES, IA23 DAYS AGO

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Iowa Senator Joni Ernst calling on Biden Administration to Allow States to Resume Building the Wall

(Washington D.C.) U.S. Senator Joni Ernst calls out the Biden Administration to allow states to build the southern border wall materials lying dormant and costing taxpayers. (Washington D.C.) the Red Oak Republican says U.S. law requires that immigrants be deported or detained pending determination if they don’t have a legal right to be here. But under this administration, enforcement simply no longer exists.

IOWA STATE25 DAYS AGO

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Here’s where 3 Iowa Democrats say they could work with Sen. Joni Ernst

DES MOINES, Iowa — The three Iowa Democrats running in Tuesday’s primary election all want the chance to defeat the man who holds the seat: U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from New Hartford. Obviously. But if they win–and that’s a significant challenge since Grassley has won every campaign after getting elected to the Iowa […]

IOWA STATE30 DAYS AGO

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Senator Joni Ernst Discusses Approval On 40 Billion Aid Package To Ukraine

The US House and Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill that gave Ukraine $40 Billion in aid to its troops to fight back against Russia’s Invasion. US Senator Joni Ernst says she voted for the package because a majority of the package would go to help Ukraine stabilize their agricultural production so they can export goods to Middle Eastern countries and Africa.

FOREIGN POLICY2022-06-05

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Sen. Joni Ernst endorse Katie Britt for Senate

Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, and former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders both announced this week their endorsements of Katie Britt’s campaign for the U.S. Senate. Ernst, the vice chair of the Senate Republican Conference and a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, said Britt, if...

CONGRESS & COURTS2022-06-03

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Sen. Joni Ernst visits Mason City VA clinic on 99 county tour

(ABC 6 News) - U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is on her annual tour of 99 counties across Iowa to hear from Iowans about the concerns, ideas and questions they might have for her to bring back to Washington, D.C. Ernst made a stop in Cerro Gordo county on Tuesday to...

MASON CITY, IA2022-06-01

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Senator Joni Ernst comes to Webster City on May 31.

Iowa U.S. Senator Joni Ernst was a visitor to Webster City Tuesday afternoon. Senator Ernst stopped by Interior Spaces.Osweiler’s, La Perla Jaroacha,made a stop outside the Webster Theater and was given a tour of the Elks Building by Webster City mayor John Hawkins. During her Tuesday visit with the store owners,Senator Ernst heard the concerns on how the pandemic has had an impact on their businesses and the concerns on supplies arriving for sale.

WEBSTER CITY, IA2022-06-01

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