WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Today, Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Chair and Founder of the Senate DOGE Caucus, unveiled a detailed report showing how federal bureaucrats have abused telework and locality pay to fleece taxpayers out of billions of dollars. Based off her investigations, Ernst's report lays out a roadmap for fixing the broken federal workforce that she will work to implement with the Trump administration and the Department of Go  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) voted for the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, which would direct the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to create a curriculum to educate high school students about the dangers and history of communism. "According to recent statistics, nearly one third of America's youth hold a favorable opinion of communism and nearly twenty percent believe that communism is bet  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Q: How does the nominations process work following a presidential election? A: Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution grants the president the power to nominate individuals to certain positions outlined in the Constitution or created by federal law. During the time between a presidential election in November and inauguration in January, a president-elect makes consequential decisions to assemble a te  more