Steve King

Did you ever think that you would be sitting here testifying before the House Judiciary Committee hearing so many people of the other party advocate for legalizing marijuana?

If we can't understand our enemy, if we don't know who they are, if we don't know what motivates them--

How about this? Are you under any kind of directive by the Administration not to say Islamic jihad or radical Islam?

Let me suggest that it doesn't sound at all robust to me, not if it's not robust enough that we have already have identified them in their home country.

I'm very troubled about the level of confidence you seem to exude here, or the President exudes, on an ability to do background checks.

I've not yet seen an attorney general that does enforce that section of the law.

And that is this statute that prohibits the local jurisdictions, the law enforcement jurisdictions from having a policy that prohibits their law enforcement officers from engaging with, supporting with, or helping immigration enforcement…

It's very frustrating to be engaged in passing legislation here in this Congress and then seeing that it's ignored.

That is unacceptable and what most people find abhorrent.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of subtitle D of title I of division A, add the following: SEC. __. PREVAILING RATE OF WAGE…

I would just point out that with the high-path AI, we were looking at a taxpayer expense of a number that approaches or perhaps exceeds $1 billion.

So, okay, of course that does not answer my question.

And that sets up straw companies.

I would take this beyond that. She said that, you know, a permanent bar or a bar forever for those who have gamed the system. Of course, I am all for that.

I thank you. That would be consistent with your competent, independent, and honest characteristics of the FBI.

I'd just say we've done into a void on this for a politically correct reason.

But I'm looking at our values today, and I'm watching as there is a fairly strong push here for sentencing reform in the United States.

You don't tell us it is quite impossible to compete with us.

That's clearly a distinct profit that most businesses would like to see in their margins.

They are all about the profit.

It's hard for me to accept the idea that this is a nonprofit organization.

I suggest, instead, in this city, for example, it's probably much easier to get an abortion than it is to buy a gun or to possess one or to transport one.

Which means they know it when they see it.

We don't have a disagreement on Article 3 authority.

I don't hear anyone testifying that there is any reservation about Congress' constitutional authority to write these regulations.