WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: After the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its final rule to make E15 available year-round for eight Midwest states starting in 2025, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) called on the Biden administration to enact the rule immediately, ahead of the 2024 summer driving season. "This delay in permanent, year-round E15 sales punishes American families and farmers who have already faced record inflation,  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is working to permanently end U.S. taxpayer funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and redirect the unspent money intended for that United Nations (UN) agency towards the construction of a wall along America's southern border. The U.S. contributes more than $18 billion in taxpayer dollars to the UN a year, which is about a third of the agency's entire budge  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: RED OAK, Iowa - U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, today announced her Small Business of the Week: Merrill Manufacturing of Buena Vista County. Throughout this Congress, Ranking Member Ernst plans to recognize a small business in every one of Iowa's 99 counties. "Three generations of the Merrill family have found success by putting their values and service a  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) introduced the Save Our Seniors Act, which would help protect the long-term solvency of Social Security by requiring the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to include the honest projection of its financial health in its annual ten-year economic outlook. "Our seniors deserve to receive the Social Security benefits that they have earned after a lifetime of hard work  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) - alongside U.S. Reps. Max Miller (R-OH), John Duarte (R-CA), and Angie Craig (D-MN) - led a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai urging the Biden administration to address the growing U.S. agricultural trade deficit. The USDA's recent Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade projects that U.S. agricultural exports will r  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: DES MOINES -- U.S. Representative Zach Nunn (IA-03) today led the entire Iowa Congressional Delegation in a letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement its rule to approve permanent year-round sales of E15 in 2024, rather than delaying it until 2025.  "This delay in permanent, year-round E15 sales punishes American families and farmers who have already faced record inflation, skyrocketin  more