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Steve King

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Steve King is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Iowa's 4th congressional district from 2003 to 2021. Known for his conservative views, King was a prominent figure in the House, often advocating for strict immigration policies and fiscal conservatism. He served on several committees during his tenure, including the Judiciary Committee and the Agriculture Committee, where he focused on issues important to his rural constituents. King's tenure was marked by controversy over his remarks on race and immigration, which drew criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.

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Jan 14, 2016

It's Donald Trump that laid out New York values on October 24th of 1999 when he said he is very pro-choice.

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Jan 14, 2016

Iowans are a stood. And they understand that Ted Cruz reported that on inside of senate document.

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Jan 12, 2016

I'm far more cynical on the result out of the Supreme Court on this particular case.

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Jan 12, 2016

Now I no longer have that confidence.

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Jan 12, 2016

I'm troubled. It looks to me like I'm seeing Supreme Court decisions... calculating the policy instead of the text in the Constitution.

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Jan 12, 2016

If you're born to an American citizen, say on some other soil, then they're automatically American citizen by virtue of the citizenship of their parents.

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Dec 8, 2015

If they happen to see that criminals are coming out of that profile, are you prohibited, then, to give greater scrutiny, by law, to that profile?

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Dec 8, 2015

So, as law enforcement officers, are you prohibited from looking for a person based upon a profile?

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Dec 8, 2015

Against the law. Could you cite the laws that prohibit law enforcement from profiling?

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Dec 8, 2015

Violent criminals can come from just about anywhere.

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Dec 8, 2015

It's curious to me, when I look at the report from 2015, from Syria, 1,573 Sunni Muslims admitted under that and 29 Christians.

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Dec 8, 2015

Would that be an indicator, then, that...

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Dec 8, 2015

Can we recognize that the population of our male prisons are substantially greater than the populations of our female prisons?

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Dec 2, 2015

Have you looked at how to compress that so that we can get that adjudicated in a quick fashion? We know if we don't send them back, those that need to go back, they are going to keep coming.

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Dec 2, 2015

I want to ask you on the record here, if you would produce the records, not only for children that apply for asylum, for all the asylees that apply, I'd like to see the results of that, the adjudication process, where it is, how many are…

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Dec 2, 2015

I can't exactly determine whether that's--if I can match up fiscal years.

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Nov 30, 2015

I think it illustrates the point that the Supreme Court wants us to have bright rules so that the law enforcement officer in the field knows what to do.

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Nov 18, 2015

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Add at the end the following: SEC. 17. PUBLIC TRANSCRIPTS OF FOMC MEETINGS. Section 12A of the Federal…

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Nov 18, 2015

I just back from there a week ago. I was in the Kurdish region and over to the frontlines...

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Nov 18, 2015

And I will conclude for the Chairman, that if we are going to save ourselves, we have to also intervene and provide a safe zone, international safe zone, for the persecuted religions, which are the Syrian Christians and the Chaldean…

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Nov 18, 2015

Some of these people that came in as terrorists were vetted.

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Nov 18, 2015

We are operating on the idea that we can vet potential terrorists.

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Nov 18, 2015

Do you take into account the religion of the applicants?

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Nov 18, 2015

What I'm really afraid of is a foreign policy that creates more widows and orphans.

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