Washington, D.C. –Congressman Steve King (IA-05) has been chosen to lead a prominent conservative Republican forum on Capitol Hill during the 109th Congress.
King will serve as chairman of the Conservative Opportunity Society, a 22-year-old organization that provided the common ground on which conservative Republican House members planned the revolution that ultimately captured majority control of the House in 1994.
King will join the ranks of former speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, who along with Republican “young Turk” conservatives, envisioned a forum for conservative House members to discuss and debate issues facing the country and develop legislative responses and tactics to lead Republicans out of decades of minority status. Years later, the “Contract With America” emerged as the watchword for the successful 1994 campaign that installed a GOP majority in the House for the first time in 40 years.
“The Conservative Opportunity Society is the core of the new face of American conservatism,” Congressman King said. “The recent election just shows us how important traditional American conservative values are to this country, and this historical and important group of lawmakers will continue to lead the modern conservative movement.”
King represents the Fifth Congressional District of Iowa. In January, he will begin his second term in the U.S. House. Since his election to Congress in 2002, King has emerged as a leading conservative. He is a frequent guest of nationally syndicated news and talk shows.