Steve King actually said...

"If I got to a foreign country, as Mr. Forbes said, and if I were going to live there, I do not really want help in the English language because it does not encourage me to adopt the language that I mi..."

"It raises the expectation that as an American and American citizen, you have a stronger and broader obligation to learn English that binds us together."

"I cannot tell you today that it is designed to override it."

"I think we are comfortable this addresses only the Federal Government and does not direct the States in their functions."