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{{Infobox Officeholder
|name         = Joni Ernst
|image        = Joni Ernst - Official Portrait - 84th GA.jpg
|state_senate = Iowa
|district     = 12th
|term_start   = January 5, 2011
|term_end     = 
|predecessor  = [[Kim Reynolds]]
(contracted; show full)st that Iraq had WMD at the time of invasion, but rather that Iraq had had WMDs in their past which they used, and that her point was that "we don't know exactly what happened to those weapons".<ref>{{cite web |title=Ernst seeks to clarify remark on Iraq WMDs |url=http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/05/12/joni-ernst-wmd/9003823/ |publisher=Des Moines Register |date=May 13, 2014 |accessdate=May 15, 2014 |author=Jennifer Jacobs}}</ref>

=== Farm Bill
, Clean Water Act and social issues ===
In a Republican primary debate in May 2014, Ernst said she would have voted against the [[Agricultural Act of 2014|2014 U.S. Farm Bill]], stated her view that the [[Clean Water Act]] is damaging for business, expressed her support for private Social Security accounts for young workers, and said that she opposed a [[Minimum wage in the United States#Federal minimum wage|federal minimum wage]] and that the minimum wage should be set at the state level.<ref name=focused>{{cite web (contracted; show full)[[Category:Iowa Republicans]]
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[[Category:People from Montgomery County, Iowa]]
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[[Category:Women state legislators in Iowa]]