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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 20, 2009

Could you let this Committee know what union funds are involved in the transaction?

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Jul 13, 2009

Increasing the Dairy Price Support Program to $12 equivalent price as suggested by Senators Leahy and Kohl would bring immediate relief to dairy farm families across the nation.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Jul 13, 2009

Saving Vermont's and New England's dairy industry will require both immediate action and long-term reforms.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Jul 13, 2009

I and several of my colleagues have been advocating for an increase in MILC payments since this crisis began.

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Tom Vilsack
@tomvilsack· Democratic · IA· Jul 13, 2009

I support this proposal as a short term solution to help put money back in the pockets of producers until prices recover.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 8, 2009

I think all small business people are a minority, and they face a lot of the same kind of problems.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

The nine Supreme Court Justices are the last nine people on the planet that should be amending our Constitution.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

I think the majority of the D.C. Circuit would agree with me.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

We have those circumstances that arise, yes.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

In the case of important national security issues, when the Court has made, in the collective judgment of the Congress and the executive branch, an extraconstitutional decision...

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

I think the Supreme Court has outstepped its bounds more than once with regard to these issues that have to do with the detainees.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

This is a political decision, not a prudent one, and there will be more that will, and among them----

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

What is the Chairman and the Chairman of the Subcommittee and the full Committee, what's their alternative if the Supreme Court determines that they are going to make decisions that put the security of the United States at risk?

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

I would submit this thought for the deliberation of the panel, and also the witnesses, because you're part of the brain trust here today, that if we had a statute that we could use to charge these detainees when they attack our guards…

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

this Congress has gone through, jumped through a lot of hoops to try to accommodate some judgments of the Supreme Court.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

I simply want to illuminate the other side of the argument.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

I would tell them that we have given them direction that's consistent with the Constitution, and we have national security at stake.

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Steve King
@steveking· Republican · IA· Jul 7, 2009

I think that this Congress has got to jealousy protect its constitutional power, or we end up with these kind of analyses that cause us to jump through these hoops.

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