WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 -- Sen. Joni Ernst issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who served in the Iowa National Guard, is leading the entire Iowa congressional delegation to rename two Iowa Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in honor of Staff Sgts. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and William Nathaniel Howard, the Iowa National Guardsmen who gave their lives (https://www.ernst.senate.gov/news/press-releases/ernst-statement-on-iowa-national-guard-members) in service to our country.
When passed into law, Ernst's Iowa National Guard Heroes Commemoration Act would designate the VA clinic in Des Moines, as the ''Staff Sergeant Edgar Torres-Tovar VA Clinic'' and the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department in Marsh...