{"id":331065,"date":"2022-11-18T23:05:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=331065"},"modified":"2022-11-18T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T23:22:04","slug":"iowa-democrats-reelect-jennifer-konfrst-zach-wahls-as-house-and-senate-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/iowa-democrats-reelect-jennifer-konfrst-zach-wahls-as-house-and-senate-leaders","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Democrats reelect Jennifer Konfrst, Zach Wahls as House and Senate leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Democrats have reelected their legislative leaders as they prepare for the 2023 legislative session, where they will hold fewer seats than they have in decades. Republicans are expected to hold a majority of either 63 or 64 seats in the 100-member Iowa House and a 34-16 majority in the 50-member Iowa Senate after Democrats lost ground in the Nov. 8 election . Legislative Democrats voted to keep Rep. Jennifer Konfrst and Sen. Zach Wahls as their party&#8217;s leaders in the Iowa House and Senate, respectively, for the 2023 Iowa legislative session, which begins on Jan. 9. Republicans also chose to keep the same leaders for the upcoming session, reelecting Senate Majority Leader Jack Whitver and House Speaker Pat Grassley. Sen. Amy Sinclair will serve as Senate president after the current president, Jake Chapman, lost his reelection bid. Jennifer Konfrst reelected House minority leader House Democrats reelected Rep. Jennifer Konfrst, D-Windsor Heights, as minority leader on Nov. 12. Konfrst has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Democrats have reelected their legislative leaders as they prepare for the 2023 legislative session, where they will hold fewer seats than they have in decades. Republicans are expected to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}