January 3, 2021
Washington, DC Iowa Senator Randy Feenstra of Hull is becoming Iowa Congressman Randy Feenstra. And he’ll be one of only two men representing the state in Washington.
For the first time ever, women will be the majority of Iowa’s congressional delegation. Mary Ellen Miller is the former executive director of “50-50 in 2020” a group formed in 2010 to encourage women to run for office.
(as said) “The reason we set up the program to recruit and train women was because Iowa was in a unique situation as being only one of only two states that had never sent a woman to Congress or elected a woman governor and in 10 years that has all been turned around,” Miller says. “I’m just, of course, very proud of our work, but also amazed at how quickly it has all changed.”
December 31, 2020
Northwest Iowa Republican Congressman Steve King says he plans to stay active in the country’s political debates once his ninth term in the U.S. House ends at noon on Sunday and the 71-year-old is not ruling out another run for public office.
(As above) “”After 24-years of public service in the middle of the heart of all of these important issues, there’s a lot of these accumulated experiences that I just can’t let go to waste,” King says. “I want to make sure that they’re available and that I can help people.”
King served six years in the Iowa legislature before winning his first race for the U.S. House in 2002. He narrowly won re-election in 2018, then was defeated by fellow Republican Randy Feenstra in the GOP Primary this past June. Feenstra will take King’s seat in congress on Sunday.