DES MOINES – Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky released the following statement after Steve King and Tom Latham showed their true priorities and voted to decrease access to health care for Iowa women:

“Steve King and Tom Latham have abandoned their promise to focus on creating jobs by voting to make it more difficult for Iowa women to access basic services, including cancer screenings. With their vote for this bill, King and Latham have once again put their state last and an irresponsible political agenda first.

“Iowans deserve better. They deserve someone who will not play partisan games with the health and well-being of Iowa women.”

The bill, HR 358, passed the House on a vote of 251 to 172. Iowa’s Democratic congressmen all opposed it (Roll Call Vote 789).

Proving that there is literally no issue that cannot be politicized by him, Congressman King voted to stymie disaster relief for communities in western Iowa devastated by flooding along the Missouri River.

Even as, to this day, parts of I-29 remain completely closed and both truckers and travelers are required to make a detour all the way through Des Moines, Congressman King was dead set on bogging down recovery efforts for families and businesses who have been devastated by recent natural disasters just to push an extreme, ideological agenda.

“As Iowa families struggle to overcome natural disaster, Congressman Steve King continues to play political games with federal relief efforts,” said Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky. “Congressman King’s repeated refusal to help Iowans recover and rebuild flies in the face of the values that make our communities strong. Iowans deserve better than Congressman King’s sweet talk in Iowa, but stonewalling efforts in Washington.”

No one else in Iowa’s Congressional delegation voted this way. Not even fellow Republicans Chuck Grassley and Tom Latham. Congressman King is dead wrong on this issue and needs to explain himself to those families and businesses in his district.