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Amnesty Bill will be American’s Next Crisis
Posted by: | CommentsIllegal immigration, not to be confused with legal immigration, continues to be a major concern for the majority of America with promises to push an amnesty bill onto the legal citizens of the United States.
H.R. 3580 (Illegal Deduction Elimination Act) has been sponsored by Iowa Congressman Steve King, along with 22 co-sponsors, to address the nations next major crisis, the amnesty bill.
In a press release sent out by King today, he states,
In November 2008, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” The Obama White House has followed this Rahmism to a tee.
Last year, the Obama administration utilized our economic crisis to nationalize the largest entities they could get their hands on. From General Motors to Chrysler to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to AIG and three large investment banks, at times President Obama’s domestic agenda appeared no different than Hugo Chavez’s.
The White House pushed hard last spring for a cap and tax plan that would force American companies to comply with costly Read More→
Rep. Steve King Signs Declaration of Health Care Independence
Posted by: | CommentsRepublican members of the House unveiled the Declaration of Health Care Independence on Wednesday January 27, 2010. This announcement was originally broke on radio talk show, Tea Party Patriots LIVE, during their live broadcast on Saturday January 23, 2010, while interviewing Representative Steve King.
Below, you will find Rep. Steve King’s Press Release on the unveiling.
King Unveils Declaration of Health Care Independence
A photo of Congressman Steve King (R-IA) signing the Declaration of Health Care Independence
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Steve King, along with House Republicans, today unveiled the Declaration of Health Care Independence, a commitment to protect the rights of the American people to make their own health decisions, reduce bureaucratic red-tape, decrease intergenerational debt and includes ten common-sense principles that must be included in future health care reforms.
Full text of the document is available at http://steveking.house.gov/_files/DeclarationofHealthCareIndependence.pdf. A copy of the Declaration of Health Care Independence is below:
Declaration of Health Care Independence
In order to retain the Blessings of Liberty as secured to us by our Founding Fathers and as expressed in our Constitution, We the People reject the imposition upon us Read More→
What will the State of The Union Address be about?
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Another carefully crafted speech from President Obama
With the State of the Union address being highly anticipated by many Americans, there are a number of us expecting to see a well scripted line of excuses and passing the blame onto President’s who are no longer running this country.
The issues expecting to be discussed in tonight’s address will most likely follow President Obama’s typical finely tuned lines of a campaign strategy speech, provided to him via a teleprompter, while filled with many empty promises for creating jobs, solving health care issues, and using cap and trade to fix the global warming issues that we all know don’t exist. Being a citizen of Iowa, I have spoken with many Iowans who would love to have some of that global warming right about now. The people of America are beyond the excuses and beyond the blame Bush practices, and simply want real solutions that will work to bring the U.S. economy back to a point of stabilization.
With expectations boiling, Paul A. Rahe, offers President Obama his version on BigGovernment.com, of what the State of the Union address should look like:
My fellow Americans, let me begin by stating the obvious. The state of our union is not good. We seem to be – we may be – coming out of a recession. But, if so, the recovery is not only jobless; it is accompanied by an increase in unemployment.
This is contrary to my expectation. When I became President, my economic advisers told me that the rate of unemployment would be considerably lower now than it is. They were mistaken, and I erred in taking their advice. The fault is mine. I may not have gotten us into a severe recession, but I advanced proposals and I pursued policies which have prolonged and deepened it. I am at fault.
To be precise, I signed into law a so-called stimulus bill that has thus far retarded economic growth by greatly increasing the size of the federal bureaucracy, the expense of supporting it, and the national debt. I urged Congress to pass cap-and-trade legislation that, had it become law, would have greatly increased the cost of energy, and I encouraged Congress to pass a healthcare reform that would have increased not only the cost of medical care but the burden on employers attendant on hiring. Everything that I did in my first year in office contributed to economic uncertainty and made employers less likely to hire and investors wary of investing. I am at fault.
Read more on Paul’s version…
When asked for a statement about tonight’s address, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) had this to say,
“President Obama has had so many things that have gone wrong. His popularity has gone down substantially and some of it for good reason. So the argument that he would put a cap or a freeze on discretionary spending is something that had been leaked out that I think he intends to say, but that doesn’t do much and I don’t think it changes the political tide.”
While searching for to see what others are writing about the State of the Union address, I found that many of the main stream media sources, who use to support President Obama, are now offering up back-handed views of what they expect to hear tonight.
Liberals Block C-SPAN and Republicans from Health Care Debate
Posted by: | CommentsThe liberals continue to lie and cheat their way to the destruction of America with plans of ramming the health care bill right down your throats. Like it or not!
The likes of Obama, Pelosi, and Reid continue to block Republicans and the American public from any level of participation in the final version of the health care bill with their continued blockage of C-SPAN coverage of the Democratic debates over the final combining of the House and Senate versions. All this after, then candidate, Barack Obama promised Hope and Change with numerous promises to provide the American people with a transparent government. Apparently they have something to hide from the American people as they plan to provide America with some of the worst change imaginable.
Representative Steve King made the following statement regarding the issue of Liberals blocking C-SPAN and the American people from health care negotiations between the House and the Senate on the final version.
“Bypassing a conference committee and shutting C-SPAN cameras out of health care negotiations allows the liberal troika of President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to craft their bill out of the public’s eye. When the legislation comes up for a final vote, amendments will not be allowed and limited debate will be held. No previous committee action or amendment votes will apply to this completely new bill.
“This is the functional equivalent of Obama, Pelosi and Reid getting together in a phone booth, shutting the doors and crafting a massive health care bill that will affect our entire country. Writing their government-run health care legislation in secret to prevent the participation of the American people and to expedite the bill’s passage is shameful. The only thing that is transparent is this troika’s disdain for transparency.”
Senator Harry Reid’s office had the following response regarding the blackout of C-SPAN coverage while he tried to divert the blame to the Republicans.
STATEMENT FROM REID SPOKESMAN ON HEALTH REFORM TRANSPARENCY
Washington, DC—Spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Jim Manley, released the following statement today regarding the transparent process undertaken by Senate Democrats to lead passage of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act through the Senate last month:
“Senator Reid appreciates C-SPAN’s commitment to ensuring transparency and we will continue to fully comply with the longstanding precedents of open access to the work of Congress.
“The drafting of this health insurance reform bill has set new standards for transparency. As the C-SPAN letter states, there have been ‘literally hundreds of hours of committee hearings, mark ups and floor debate on these bills’ – and every one of those hours was broadcast across the country.
“The HELP Committee held a televised markup that lasted more than 13 days, and in which it accepted 161 Republican amendments. The Finance Committee then marked up their bill for eight days – the longest in 22 years – and each of those meetings was similarly broadcast. The Committee posted the Chairman’s mark of the bill online six days earlier. The full text of the substitute amendment and the Congressional Budget Office’s assessment were both available online for weeks.
“But what should truly concern the American people is the Republicans’ shamelessly transparent strategy of relying on misinformation and myths to stop reform at all costs. Their ploys are broadcast on C-SPAN for all of America to see, as much of it happens on the Senate floor. For example, at the beginning of the floor debate Senator Reid asked consent from Senate Republicans to file all amendments well in advance and post them on the Internet, but the Republican Leadership refused this request. During consideration of the Sanders amendment, Republicans publicly made clear they would use procedural games to turn ‘transparency’ into a tactic of delay and obstruction.
“Just as our health reform bill will create a more open health insurance system – transparency that will save lives and money and stop insurance company abuses – we are committed to transparency in the legislative process. We will continue to ensure that the Congress and the public will have ample opportunity to evaluate the bill before it moves to final passage.”
Jim Manley
Spokesman/Senior Communications Advisor Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(202) 224-2939
Steve King Hosts District Director Dave Ehler’s Retirement
Posted by: | CommentsDecember 23, 2009
Yesterday, I had the great fortune of being invited to attend the retirement party for Congressman Steve King’s District Director, Dave Ehler.
Dave Ehler holding Honorary Medals
The event was well attended by Ehler’s family, friends, and associates from throughout the area, and abroad, who braved ice fog slickened roads to make it to the retirement celebration for such an honorable public servant.
Dave has become well known in his hometown, of Holstein, Iowa, for his great leadership and real community organizer skills. Mr Ehler gained a great deal of respect from community leaders throughout the entire 5th Congressional District of Iowa. According to Rep. King, Ehler had made it a point to travel to each and every city or town in Iowa’s 5th District. This being Iowa’s largest district, makes this quite an accomplishment to be proud of.
Congressman King stood in front of a nice group of people who braved the ice fog slickened roads to come out and celebrate the many great accomplishments, of which most citizens would be proud to have accomplished a fraction of what this one man, Dave Ehler, has been accredited with.
Congressman Steve King stood before the attendees and spent about a half hour talking about Ehler’s dedicated years of service to Iowa’s 5th District. There was laughter, applause, and even a few tears shed, as the Congressman talked about the many accomplishments of a truly great man. He talked of putting his trust in Dave as Dave “kept the District on task and well organized” while King was busy attending to issues in Washington, D.C. Managing such a large district could not have been an easy task for any one individual.
At the end of King’s speech, he and his staff presented a special gift of a handcrafted plaque to the retiring District Director.
Gift to Dave Ehler (right), by Congressman Steve King and staff. In picture with Dave, is new District Director Wayne Brincks (left).
The following is just a brief list of Dave’s legacy of public service at the most professional of levels.
- U.S. Navy from July 1967 to August 1970
- Holstein, Iowa City Clerk from February 6, 1975 to December 27, 2002, where he continued to be instrumental in the betterment of his community in so many unheard of ways.
- Thirty year member of the Holstein Volunteer Fire Department
- Secretary/Treasurer of the Northwest Iowa League of Cities for 11 years and was the 19th member to be inducted into the NWLC Hall of Fame
- Four Lane Highway 20 group member since the early 80′s and Secretary/Treasurer of the group for 20 yrs.
- Board member of the Iowa Municipal Finance Officers Association
- Dave was a certified CPR instructor trainer, a certified Emergency Rescue Technician and a certified Emergency Medical Technician
- Dave and wife Judy have been foster parents for 27 kids in need for which the couple was honored with the prestigious “Angels in Adoption Award” in 2007
- Seven years as District Director for Iowa’s 5th Congressional District
In the past several years, Dave was highly instrumental in leading the fight for the Four Lane Highway 20 group. With grading work planned for next year, this project is well under way after having involved a great number of challenging hurdles to have this heavily traveled road turned into a four lane freeway. This will
Brigadier General Tim Orr presenting Medals
provide improved infrastructure to better handle the heavy load of truck and auto traffic that rolls across this highway every single day. The project is now well under way and, once finished, will allow travelers to set their cruise on 65 as they enjoy their travel across Northern Iowa on highway 20.
A special speaker, Brigadier General Tim Orr, the Adjutant General for Iowa, came from his Des Moines, IA office to thank Dave for his years of dedication to the Armed Forces, throughout his years, and to personally hand give him a Coin from the Adjutant General and The Commander’s Coin.
Congressman Steve King speaking at District Director Dave Ehler retirement party
Dave Ehler with his Father (right) and his Brother and Sisters
Dave with his wife, Judy, Son Eric, Daughter Sara, and Granddaughter.
King, Latham, Boswell Ask USDA to Set the Record Straight on BPI and Pink Slime Controversy
Posted by: Trent Thevenot | Comments (0)Press Release by Congressman Steve King
King, Latham, Boswell Ask USDA to Set the Record Straight on BPI
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Steve King led Iowa’s U.S. House Delegation in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asking that the USDA take a more active role in educating the public about the benefits of lean finely textured beef, a meat product that has recently been the focus of a focused, negative public smear campaign. Lean finely textured beef is a 100% beef product that is largely produced by Beef Products Inc., a company with a significant presence and long history in Iowa.
“BPI and the lean finely textured beef product it produces have been the victim of a vicious negative media campaign,” said King. “The result has been a misinformed public that’s pressured retailers and the USDA to distance themselves from the company and its product,” said King. “The USDA is uniquely positioned to help educate the public about the facts as they relate to lean finely textured beef. Unfortunately the agency’s handling of this situation thus far has led the public to believe that this product is neither healthy nor safe. These false claims have put jobs and livelihoods at stake. We need Secretary Vilsack and the USDA to take an active role in setting the record straight. “
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There are some who are beginning to question whether this smear campaign on BPI might be related to their long history of contributions to Republican candidates as you will find on Open Secrets. Remember the Gibson Guitar factory being raided by US authorities? How about conservative owned car dealerships being closed across the nation? There is a tactic called political intimidation that has been deployed and heavily used by the current administration and their supporters.