Joni Ernst
RSen. IA · U.S. Senate · 2 terms
Political perspective
from the voting recordOn the standard liberal–conservative scale, Ernst sits more conservative than 69% of the Senate and more liberal than 30%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.
We link to what Ernstsays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.
Contact
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Campaign money
live· 2026 cycle“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.
- THE BOEING COMPANY PACCorporate$10K
- BOOTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEOther / unclassified$10K
- GROWTH ENERGY PACTrade$10K
- OORAH! POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEOther / unclassified$10K
- LETS GET TO WORK PACOther / unclassified$10K
- DAKOTA PACOther / unclassified$10K
- SEND IN THE SEAL PACOther / unclassified$10K
- TOMORROW IS MEANINGFUL PACOther / unclassified$10K
- Corporate46%
- Other / unclassified31%
- Trade17%
- Membership4%
- Cooperative2%
- Labor1%
Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.
- Agriculture$38K
- Defense & aerospace$37K
- Energy & utilities$32K
- Professional services$30K
- Finance & banking$29K
- Telecom & media$25K
Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 49% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.
Where the money goes
live· 2026 cycleErnst's campaign has spent $1.2M across 380 reported disbursements.
- Consulting & research$732K 62%
- Other$207K 18%
- Advertising & media$141K 12%
- Payroll & admin$81K 7%
- Travel & lodging$12K 1%
- Events & fundraising$664 0%
- TARGETED VICTORY$333K
- SOCKO STRATEGIES LLC$217K
- VENABLE LLP$128K
- CMDI$128K
- TRUIST VISA$78K
- DOT THE I DESIGN AND GRAPHICS$60K
- AIPACWASHINGTON, DC$2K
- GOEAS, LISADES MOINES, IA · 2 payments$383
- META PLATFORMS INCDALLAS, TX$281
These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.
Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.
Background
Represents Iowa · age 56 · from Red Oak.
Joni Kay Ernst is an American politician and retired military officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Iowa. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.
Stock trades
Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Ernst's filings:
Committees
liveWhat they're assigned to work on.
- Senate Committee on Small Business and EntrepreneurshipChairman
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
- Senate Committee on Armed Services
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
via congress-legislators committee data.
Who they're up against
Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.
Next election
· 2026 cycle- Zach P WahlsDemocratOpen seat$3.7Mraised ↗
- Joshua TurekDemocratOpen seat$3.5Mraised ↗
- Nathan SageDemocratOpen seat$1.4Mraised ↗
- Jackie NorrisDemocratOpen seat$364Kraised ↗
- James ScholtenDemocratOpen seat$213Kraised ↗
- Thomas Raymond LaehnLIBOpen seat$20Kraised ↗
+ 3 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.
Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.
How Joni actually voted · last 15 bills live
- NayAugust 5, 2026S.J.Res. 187On the Motion to Proceed
- YeaAugust 5, 2026PN730-11On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 5, 2026PN932On the Nomination
- YeaAugust 5, 2026PN932On the Cloture Motion
- YeaAugust 3, 2026H.R. 6500On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- YeaJuly 30, 2026S.Res. 817On the Resolution
- NayJuly 30, 2026S.J.Res. 181On the Motion to Discharge
- NayJuly 30, 2026S.J.Res. 199On the Motion to Proceed
- YeaJuly 29, 2026S.Res. 817On the Cloture Motion
- YeaJuly 29, 2026H.R. 5334On the Motion to Proceed
- YeaJuly 28, 2026H.R. 5334On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- YeaJuly 28, 2026PN1092On the Nomination
- YeaJuly 27, 2026PN1092On the Cloture Motion
- YeaJuly 23, 2026PN999-5On the Nomination
- YeaJuly 23, 2026PN999-6On the Nomination
Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.
Congressional calendar · next 12 days
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Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through August 5, 2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.