Rep. Cynthia Lummis was in the throes of her reelection campaign in Wyoming last October when her husband, Alvin Wiederspahn, died suddenly. He was just 65 years old.
Lummis couldn’t even find his will as she took on a new load of responsibility. She had to shore up her husband’s businesses and pull together a memorial service. Her daughter was grown, but Lummis says she still felt a push and pull between her personal life and Congress.
As Wyoming’s only member of the House, she felt an obligation not to fall short in serving the state even as she grieved. There was a lame-duck congressional session to attend, and she served on the steering committee responsible for appointing a new incoming class of freshmen to committees.
“I really did not have any choice, so I just kept up the pace,” Lummis said in an interview with National Journal.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/91472/how-paul-ryan-is-changing-family-conversation-congress?mref=home
Lummis couldn’t even find his will as she took on a new load of responsibility. She had to shore up her husband’s businesses and pull together a memorial service. Her daughter was grown, but Lummis says she still felt a push and pull between her personal life and Congress.
As Wyoming’s only member of the House, she felt an obligation not to fall short in serving the state even as she grieved. There was a lame-duck congressional session to attend, and she served on the steering committee responsible for appointing a new incoming class of freshmen to committees.
“I really did not have any choice, so I just kept up the pace,” Lummis said in an interview with National Journal.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/91472/how-paul-ryan-is-changing-family-conversation-congress?mref=home
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