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On the recordSeptember 8, 2016
I thank the gentleman from Texas for a very moving presentation here. I know that it means something very deeply in his heart, as it does in ours here on this floor and across this country by the thousands. A couple of things that I want to just quickly inject into this discussion. She would want me to say on article 3, section 2, Court stripping, we don't need to genuflect to the supremacists. The Court has gotten out of control. The Constitution is set up to where they are to be the weakest of the three branches of government, not a superior supremacist branch of government. Phyllis handed me the manuscript to this book, as I had a lot of long plane flights to do. The manuscript was just printed off a copy machine and kind of clipped together. I worked through all of that. I wrote my edits on it, my notes in the margins, red ink. I worked through it for hours--in fact, it was days. It got lost on the plane on the way back from Africa. I went to her and said: Phyllis, I need a little more time to work on the edits of your book because the manuscript has been lost in the luggage. She looked at me and she said: Well, Congressman, I didn't intend for you to edit my book. I just intended for you to have an early copy. I knew exactly what I wanted to say. The book stands out. She knew exactly what she wanted to say. That is a lot about her intellect and her personality.…
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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