Joni Ernst

To authorize and encourage the United States Agency for International Development to pursue a model of locally led development and humanitarian response and expanded engagement with local partners and to increase its local partner base.

To amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to ensure that other transaction agreements are reported to USAspending.gov, and for other purposes.

To clarify task and delivery order solicitation and contract requirements.

To ensure that organizations with religious or moral convictions are allowed to continue to provide services for children.

To continue in effect certain Executive orders imposing sanctions with respect to Iran, to prevent the waiver of certain sanctions imposed by the United States with respect to Iran until the Government of Iran ceases to attempt to assassinate United States officials, other United States citizens, and Iranian nationals residing in the United States, and for other purposes.

Relating to proceedings of the Senate in the event of a partial or full shutdown of the Federal Government.

To promote remediation of abandoned hardrock mines, and for other purposes.

To require the denial of admission to the United States for individuals subject to sanctions pursuant to Executive Order 13876, and for other purposes.

Designating July 30, 2023, as National Whistleblower Appreciation Day.

To require the publication of fossil-fuel powered travel by the President, the Vice President, and political appointees, and for other purposes.

To prevent States and local jurisdictions from interfering with the production and distribution of agricultural products in interstate commerce, and for other purposes.

To impose sanctions with respect to the Taliban, and for other purposes.

To require the Secretary of Defense to develop a strategy to counter fentanyl trafficking in the United States, and for other purposes.

To protect law enforcement officers, and for other purposes.

To terminate certain contracts relating to the construction of the border fence and to transfer unused border fence materials to the States along the southwest border of the United States.

To require the Secretary of Defense to use, transfer, or donate all excess construction materials intended for the wall on the southwest border of the United States that are being stored by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

To establish the National Task Force on the Response of the United States to the COVID–19 Pandemic.

To require certification of small business concerns as small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans in order to be counted toward goals for contract awards, and for other purposes.

To amend the Small Business Act relating to small business concerns owned and controlled by women, and for other purposes.

To amend title 5, United States Code, to require greater transparency for Federal regulatory decisions that impact small businesses, and for other purposes.