Archive for Steve King
Steve King Surprised by White House’s Acorn Cookies
Posted by: | CommentsCongressman Steve King of Iowa was shocked when he saw what the White House was serving up for dessert.
You can understand how King was surprised when he realized the nerve the White House had to serve chocolate cookies shaped and decorated like acorn nuts at the White House’s annual Christmas party, Monday.
With all the controversy surrounding the ACORN organization, you would think this would be the last thing they would be serving. Read more on this story at FOXNews.com.
Image showing Steve King holding his acorn nut cookie at White House's annual Christmas Party
Other news on Steve King: Today, Rep. Steve King participated in a press conference on KSM & Co. coming to American soil with additional focus being placed on the impact of bringing Khalid Sheikh Mahammed and other terrorists to American soil and giving these terrorists Constitutional rights and access to our judicial system.
Press conference participants included:
Congressman Steve King
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
Congressman Pete Hoekstra
Congressman John Shadegg
Congressman Todd Akin
Congressman Louie Gohmert
Congresswoman Sue Myrick
Congressman Trent Franks
Congressman John Fleming
Congressman Todd Tiahrt
Former Assistant United States Attorney Andrew McCarthy
Former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Detainee Affairs Charles “Cully” Stimson
The event was to be held on the sidewalk area below the U.S. Supreme Court Building, at 10 a.m. today, December 10, 2009.
Rep. Jerry Nadler Continues to Protect and Defend ACORN
Posted by: | CommentsWith the resolution to shut off funding to ACORN expiring on December 18th, Congressman Steve King took an opportunity to address the issue during a House Judiciary Committee hearing today.
During the meeting King stated,
“…ACORN has corrupted the election process in the United States that it threatens the very Constitution itself.”
In response to Congressman King’s statement, Nadler responded with,
“Congress has done everything it could do against a private organization. We have defunded ACORN. I believe that action is unconstitutional.”
What say you to this statement made by Rep. Jerry Nadler? It appears he is continuing to protect and defend those who have turned the election process of the United States into the laughing stock of the world.
My applause to Rep. Steve King of Iowa for once again taking a strong stance against those who continue to attack our once respected voting process.
Looking back (video from November 21, 2009) when King discusses issues of Conyers and Nadler protecting, defending, and even providing legal advice for the ACORN organization to sue the federal government…
House Statements of Disbursements are Now Available Online
Posted by: | CommentsOn November 30, 2009 the statements of disbursements of the House of Representatives, for the period of July 1, 2009 to September 30, 2009, were made available online to provide greater transparency of your government representatives. This is a huge victory for those of us interested in a transparent government. For this, I offer my sincere applause to the House of Representatives for taking these tremendous steps in providing this information to the Citizens of the United States of America.
A statement by Congressman Steve King reads,
“When the government is spending your money, I believe it should be fiscally disciplined and held accountable. The best way to achieve accountability is transparency. Congress should be as transparent as possible with the American public.
“I am glad these statements of disbursements are finally online. It is a significant step towards transparency, but I think they should go a step further. We need full disclosure of Members’ exact asset/liability values on their financial disclosures, instead of vague ranges. We also need all privately-funded Member travel, current House floor debate, and all bills and amendments fully disclosed on the internet in a form that can be easily searched, sorted and downloaded by the public.”
Congressman Steve King has previously introduced the Sunlight Act, H.R. 170, to strengthen the financial disclosures of Members of Congress, to require precertification of privately-funded Congressional travel and to make the travel expenses of Members available online.
Liberal Stimulus Costs $862,498 per Job Created
Posted by: | CommentsThose who seem to think that the government provides all the answers will be really impressed with the interesting figures to come from Iowa’s Fifth District.
Congressman Steve King came out with reports, today, on the number of jobs created in his Fifth Congressional District of a whopping 157.3 jobs. If you think that is impressive, I know you are going to love the cost of $135,670,954 to create all those jobs. This figures out to be an impressive $862,498 per job created by the liberal stimulus. Now that’s government efficiency for you. I don’t know about you but I am sure glad that our children’s children will be stuck paying for so few jobs created at such great an expense.
King made the following statement on the issue:
“Perhaps the Obama Administration should award stimulus-funded prize money to any Iowan who can find the 7th, 8th, 16th, 17th, 19th, 24th and 31st Iowa Congressional Districts.
“I said it at the time this bill passed, and I will say it again: the Obama Administration’s economic philosophy is straight out of the failed Great Depression-era playbook. Increasing government spending, debt, deficits and taxes as a means to stimulate the economy has always delayed the recovery.
“This information confirms that the ‘stimulus’ bill is really a non-stimulating boondoggle of liberal pet projects and wasteful spending. Taxpayers should be outraged at what the President and liberals in this Congress have done with their money.”
You might want to focus your attention to a button located towards the top right corner of the page that states, “Report Fraud, Waste & Abuse”. I find that an interesting button to be located on a site for a program that is all about corruption, wasteful spending, and liberal government abuse.
Steve King Comes Out Against Racially Charged DOJ Decision
Posted by: | CommentsThe DOJ has now decided it is far more intelligent than any black voter, in it’s latest racially and politically motivated decision to overstep local decisions to do away with party affiliation of candidates. Many local and federal politicians “…would like the city to challenge the decision in court. They say voter apathy is the largest barrier to black voters’ election of candidates they prefer and that the Justice Department has gone too far in trying to influence election results here.” As seen in the Washington Times article.
Iowa Congressman Steve King, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, responded yesterday to a recent Department of Justice decision overruling a 2008 ballot
initiative in Kinston, NC which eliminated party affiliation of candidates in local elections and was supported overwhelmingly by local voters. According to the Washington Times, “The Justice Department’s ruling, which affects races for City Council and mayor, went so far as to say partisan elections are needed so that black voters can elect their ‘candidates of choice’ – identified by the department as those who are Democrats and almost exclusively black.”
King stated the following:
“Martin Luther King Jr. longed for a day ‘when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ King and centuries of abolitionists dreamed of a time when men and women of all races could vote and equally participate in society irrespective of skin color or ethnicity. This DOJ decision sets in reverse everything these heroes worked for.
“The DOJ has no business overruling a local election and should not be putting an emphasis on race. The DOJ is essentially insulting African-American voters by saying that they are not smart enough to vote for candidates that do not have a D by their names. Attorney General Holder has again politicized the Department of Justice by prohibiting Kinston, NC from holding nonpartisan elections. We saw the same racial bias in the dismissal of the New Black Panther case of voter intimidation.
“Elections in the United States should be about policy and ideas, not about the race of the candidates or voters.”
King Calls on Conyers to Conduct Full Investigation of ACORN
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Congressman Steve King has sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers calling for a comprehensive full investigation into ACORN and it’s affiliates.
In his letter to Conyers, King points out a report which was released on July 23, 2009 where the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform detailed a “criminal enterprise and its illegal activities”, according to King.
The contents of Congressman Steve King‘s letter read,
“As you know, I am concerned about facts related to the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN). I request that the Judiciary Committee hold congressional hearings and conduct a complete and comprehensive full committee investigation into ACORN and its affiliates.
ACORN is operating as a criminal enterprise and committing illegal and fraudulent activity. I have repeatedly called for a congressional investigation into ACORN, but publicly available information about ACORN’s criminal acts has been ignored by liberals in Congress and the mainstream media. On July 23, 2009, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a detailed report on this criminal enterprise and its illegal activities. That same day, you agreed to read the report during our colloquy on the House floor. As I’m sure you are aware, the Committee concluded that ACORN and its spider web of affiliates is involved with deliberate and systemic fraud—including tax evasion, obstruction of justice and aiding and abetting the cover-up of embezzlement. The report also details ACORN’s conspiracy to defraud the United States government by illegally using taxpayer funds.
As we discussed in our meeting on Tuesday, we have a duty to protect the integrity of our election process. ACORN has threatened that integrity by committing voter registration fraud. ACORN is currently under investigation in at least 14 states. It has admitted to filing over 400,000 false or fraudulent voter registrations in the 2008 election cycle alone. Because of this, ACORN, as an entity, has been indicted on voter fraud charges in Nevada. Its involvement in questionable lending practices and in the shakedown of lenders also demonstrates that ACORN is rife with fraud. As if these offenses were not enough to warrant a congressional inquiry, recent videos released on Fox News of ACORN employees facilitating fraud, human trafficking, prostitution and tax evasion have added new, even more troubling transgressions to ACORN’s rap sheet. These acts cannot be ignored. The time to investigate ACORN is now.
As a recipient of at least $53 million in taxpayer dollars since 1994, ACORN must be held accountable. Despite a laundry list of criminal activity, ACORN is still eligible to receive $8.5 billion more in federal tax dollars. We have a duty to protect the Rule of Law and the interests of the taxpayer. To fulfill this duty with regard to ACORN, we must start holding congressional hearings and order a complete investigation into ACORN. I look forward to meeting with you again on Friday, September 25, to determine how the full Judiciary Committee will proceed with an investigation of ACORN and its affiliates.”
Will this be enough to encourage a full blown investigation into the organization with people like Senator Harry Reid protecting them? You may recall reports near the end of July of this year when Conyers backs off probe of ACORN.
