WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: During National Small Business Week, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee, is following up on her investigation of the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) taxpayer-funded assistance to small businesses in Ukraine. "As Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I am writing to request information on   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led a meeting with Rich Cordray, President Biden's Chief Operating Officer for the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), and Melanie Storey, the Director of Federal Student Aid's Office of Policy Implementation and Oversight (PIO), to question their botched rollout of the Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA), which has hurt farm families. Because Cordray bears responsi  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) led over 50 of her colleagues in calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to protect America's agricultural competitiveness by adopting a better definition of "poultry" so Iowa farmers will not miss out on trade opportunities. In the letter to USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Administrator Dr. Michael Watson, they advocated for the World Organization for Ani  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.), today met with Biden administration officials about federal student aid issues and challenges the FAFSA asset question has posed for farm families. Education Department attendees included Rich Cordray, Chief Operating Officer for the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA), and Melanie St  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), along with Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), Zach Nunn (R-Iowa) and Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa), today called on President Joe Biden to approve Governor Kim Reynolds' Major Disaster Declaration request following the severe storms that occurred in Iowa on April 26. Governor Reynolds is seeking federal resources from the Indiv  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) joined Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and 33 other colleagues in urging the Biden administration not to bring Gazan refugees to the U.S. and to focus instead on bringing American hostages back home. Earlier this week, reports revealed the White House is considering welcoming Gazans to the U.S. "Your administration's reported plan to accept Gazan refugees poses a national security risk   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: DES MOINES -- This week, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Representative Zach Nunn's (IA-03) bipartisan legislation to reduce veteran suicide. The Daniel J. Harvey and Adam Lambert Improving Servicemember Transition to Reduce Veteran Suicide Act is named in memory of two Marines who served in Afghanistan together, Iowa's Corporal Adam Lambert from Adel and Rhode Island's Lance Corporal Daniel J.   more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Q: What went wrong with the updated federal financial aid application? A: Congress passed bipartisan legislation in 2020 to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for college-bound students and their families. Typically, more than 17 million families fill out FAFSA by Oct. 1, nearly a year before the next academic year and seven months before Decision Day on May 1, the deadline for   more