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Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa sat down for an interview with the Townhalls Katie Pavlich on the main stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, where they equated socialismand communismandadmitted thathaving GOP women on the Senate Judiciary Committeeon which they both servewas long overdue.Both Ernst and Blackburn received that committee appointment last year, making them the first Republican women to serve on the Judiciary.

Ernst, who is up for reelection in 2020, recounted her brush with a socialist country by a personal story about going on an agriculture exchange trip to the Soviet Union while attending Iowa State University. The Soviet Union was communist.

I had the opportunity to go on an agriculture exchange to the Soviet Union. I lived on a collective farm, where my family had no running water, they were farming with horses and wagons on the collective, they had no refrigerator, they had no automobile. They shared one bicycle amongst all the family members, Ernst said. That was socialism, folks, living in poverty. If thats what were striving for as the United States, Im not having any of it.

Pavlich chimed into notethat the Soviet Union was communistbefore suggesting they were oneandthe same.

I think when you say Bernie Sanders went to honeymoon in the former Soviet Union, it wasnt a socialist country, it was a communist country, Pavlich said. Were not talking about some low-level tinge of socialism, were talking about tyranny, authoritarianism, and the opposite of freedom for individuals;its completely the opposite of what America was founded on.

Blackburn used the mention of Democratic presidential frontrunner Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont,to attack Sanders for applauding Cubas literacy program on 60 Minutes Sunday. He was probably excited that Castro was teaching them how to readThe Communist Manifesto,which was on his bedside tableit wasnt the Gideon Biblewhile he was honeymooning in the Soviet Union, Blackburn said.

Blackburn recalled hosting people from the old Sovietblocwhen she was in theTennesseestate Senate. A man from Estonia, she says, kissed the floor at the Grand Ole Opry. He said, You know, I would listen toRadio FreeEurope. And I would hear country music, and it would come from the Grand Ole Opry, she said,going on to suggestthat country music had inspired him to lead his country to freedom. Here was this individual who was standing up to lead his country to freedom as a newly minted, newly found leader. What had inspired him was music that he heard over the radio, she said.

At one point during their conversation, Ernst mentioned serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Blackburn. Both of us serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Were the first Republican women to serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ernst said.

Ever, Blackburn interjected.

Ever. Long overdue, I would say, Ernst said.

Long overdue, but were at 192 judges, 192 federal judges, Blackburn said, referring to the number of Trump-appointed judges confirmed by the committee.

Blackburn and Ernst were appointed to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019, nearly three decades after Democratic Sen. Diane Feinstein became thefirst womanto serve on the Judiciary Committee. In 2018, Sen. Chuck Grassley, then the chairman ofJudiciary,explainedthe lack of Republican women on the committee by saying, Its a lot of work. Maybe they dont want to do it.

Ernst, who was elected to the Senate in 2014, once endorsed the notion of impeaching former President Barack Obama and suggested that states could nullify federal laws. She also has taken to peddling in conspiracy theories around Agenda 21, a 1993 non-binding U.N. treaty on sustainable development methods.

In 2013, Ernstpredictedthat Agenda 21 agents may start moving people off of their agricultural land and consolidating them into city centers and then telling them that you dont have property rights anymore. These are all things that the UN is behind, and its bad for the United States, bad for families here in the state of Iowa.

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