Senate's first female war vet looks for bipartisan victories
By: Leo Shane III, May 20, 2017
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joni Ernst arrived on Capitol Hill in 2015 best known for a pun-filled campaign commercial where she promised to “cut pork” like she did castrating hogs on her family’s Iowa farm and “make ‘em squeal” when it came to sparring with Washington insiders.
So it may come as a surprise that in the last two years she has quietly worked to build a bipartisan resume on military and veterans issues, angling for compromises in lieu of confrontations in the politically fractured Congress.
http://www.militarytimes.com/articles/joni-ernst-female-veteran-senate-profile
