WASHINGTON—There must be something in the water in Iowa that makes Republicans like Sen. Joni Ernst recoil at the thought of a tax dollar being wasted by government bureaucrats.
Sen. Charles Grassley, Iowa’s long-serving senior senator, has exposed government boondoggles for decades, while another Iowan, Rep. H.R. Gross, was dubbed “the useful pest” for being on the floor whenever Congress was in session and using his mastery of House rules to stop official squandering.
