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There are currently 28 women members in the Iowa House (82nd General Assembly). While each will be featured as time allows, here is a quick reference list of the Iowa women currently serving in the House: Rep. Deborah Berry (D) – House District 22 (Black Hawk County) Rep. Carmine Boal (R) – House District 70 [...]

I can already tell there will be quite a few posts about Senate Minority Leader Mary Lundby. It’s not that I think she is such a bad person or even that she’s a bad legislator, it’s just that – in her new leadership position – she’s going to be asked about everything and quoted all [...]

I was so excited to hear Gov. Chet Culver’s budget proposal before the joint meeting of the legislature today. It came just off the heels of the minimum wage hike (which was a good and needed thing, even if I think the increases should have been spaced out a bit more) and I was ready [...]

There are currently six women members in the Iowa Senate (82nd General Assembly). While each will be featured as time allows, here is a reference list: Sen. Staci Appel (D) – Senate District 37 (Warren County) Sen. Nancy J. Boettger (R) – Senate District 29 (Shelby County) Sen. Mary Lundby (R) – Senate District 18 [...]

Radio Iowa is reporting that 46-year-old Command Sergeant Major Marilyn Gabbard of Polk City died Saturday during a helicopter crash in Iraq. Gabbard joined the national guard in October 1979 as a private climbed up the ranks from there. She was the first female Command Sergeant Major in the Iowa National Guard and also the [...]

While reading information at the Center for American Women and Politics, I came across something a little shocking: US Congress – Iowa is among the four states that have never sent a woman to either the Senate or the House. The other states are Delaware, Mississippi and Vermont. It’s time we change that. A few [...]

The Iowa Caucus (if held to the calendar set by the DNC) are exactly one year away. For some political geeks, that seems an eternity. Still, there are quite a few happenings between now and then. Jan. 31 – FEC Deadline Deadline for the campaign committees of House and Senate candidates, presidential candidates who established [...]

The opening bell has sounded and, by all accounts, 2007 will be quite a year for women in politics. Currently, 87 women serve in the U.S. Congress — 16 in the Senate and 71 in the House. In addition, for the first time in history a woman, Nancy Pelosi, has been named Speaker of the [...]

This site/blog has been sitting on the back burner for years now. Hosting and domain registration bills were paid, but the actual work of putting it all together just never seemed to be the number one priority. Today something happened to change that. It was no accident the powers-that-be were motivated to put it all [...]