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Steve King: “If the judges would yield, there is another anecdote that is worth mentioning, and I do not know if it has been passed…”

On the recordSeptember 7, 2005
If the judges would yield, there is another anecdote that is worth mentioning, and I do not know if it has been passed along here tonight, but I think it demonstrates his sense of humor. And sometimes it was self-deprecating and sometimes it was succinct. Several years after he had been appointed to the bench, he was asked what it is like to serve here on the Supreme Court. He said, Well, you spend the first 2 years here wondering how you got here, and the rest of your time wondering how they got here.
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