(Radio Iowa) — Congressman Steve King has been saying for the past two weeks that he has an agreement with the Republican leader in the U.S. House to get this committee assignments restored — but an Ohio congressman who’s on the leadership team says King will not be serving on any committee. House G-O-P leaders removed King from committees last year. It came shortly after a New York Times article quoted King asking why the terms white supremacy and white nationalism had become offensive. This is what King said on April 27th.

Steve King (file photo)

“Kevin McCarthy and I have reached an understanding,” King said, “and the only barrier in the way to putting back all my committees, perhaps incrementally as there are openings that can be created, is to get a formal meeting of the Steering Committee because they’re officially the ones that make that decision.” King is seeking a 10th term in the U.S. House and faces four Republican challengers in the June Primary. He has repeatedly said he was misquoted and King chastised his opponents during a forum in Spencer on Monday night.

“You’re running on The New York Times and you’re running on no committee assignments,” King said. “Can anybody stand up and say it’s what I said or did that caused that to happen? That’s not on me. That’s on the people that made that decision and the ones that need to rectify it and you all should have stood up to defend me on that and you were nowhere to be found.” Ohio Congressman Steve Stivers, a member of the House G-O-P Steering Committee, says he won’t allow hate and bigotry to influence the legislation passed in congress and King will not regain appointments to committees.

Two weeks ago, King said his lack of committee assignments is an injustice that must be corrected immediately. “Especially in the middle of this crisis that we’re in right now,” King says. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has not responded to requests for comment. In January of 2019, when he announced King was being stripped of his committee assignments, McCarthy said King’s quotes in the New York Times were not the first time King had made offensive comments.

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (WHO-TV) — Authorities say a teenage boy has been injured in an officer-involved shooting in central Iowa. Station WHO-TV reports that the shooting happened before dawn Wednesday morning in Marshalltown when officers were called to a northwest neighborhood near Rogers Elementary School for a disturbance. Marshalltown Police Chief Michael Tupper says the call was made just before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.

Tupper says arriving officers encountered a 17-year-old male who did not respond to police commands or being shocked by a stun gun and was shot when he charged officers. The teen was taken to a hospital for treatment of wounds not believed to be life-threatening. Police are not releasing the name of the teen or the officer who shot him.

The Clarinda Police Department reports two students have absconded from the Clarinda Academy after stealing a vehicle from the campus. The incident happened today (Wednesday), at approximately 1:45 p.m.

The vehicle is a black 2013 Chevrolet Impala, University of Iowa Collegiate Personalized license plate WEBHAWK. No additional information is available at this time.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Legislature will resume its session on June 3 after a months-long break as part of efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Republicans who control both legislative chambers agreed to suspend the Legislature on March 16 and then extended the break as the state dealt with the outbreak. The action to resume the legislative session came as Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, announced Wednesday she was allowing most businesses to reopen across the state.

A legislative panel will meet by phone Thursday to officially enact the plan announced by the Republican leaders. Lawmakers also will reopen the Capitol on Monday. Everyone entering the building will need to undergo a health screening.