Steve King

The point of securing the border if we are going to be there to be the welcome mat is significantly diminished by the policies of this Administration, would you agree?

I also want to thank my colleague, Ms. Lofgren, and a good number of others for their bipartisan cooperation on this bill that is before us.

I thank you and our Ranking Member, both the full and the Subcommittee, for the opportunity to bring this bill, H.R. 917, the 'Sunshine in the Courtroom Act of 2013,' before this hearing today.

Congress has both the constitutional authority to act and the duty to use that authority to expand public access to our courts.

I thank the witnesses for your testimony and your patience for us to come back to this hearing after our votes on the floor.

If we let this stand, I can't see that we could ever put the rule of law back together with regard to immigration.

The president has thrown us into this situation, and now there are 535 members of Congress who have all taken an oath to also uphold the Constitution.

He has no constitutional authority to do this. That resides in the Congress. This is a constitutional crisis.

22 times he says - he said that he doesn't have the power to do this and yet he stepped out and did this anyway.

I have this sickening feeling in my stomach about the situation that the president has thrown this nation into.

I think that is one of the barriers we have to employment in this country is a resistance to relocation.

So I am encouraged by that trend. It has gone dramatically the other way in the previous several years.

If we raise the minimum wage to $10.10, we would have 3.6 million fewer people receiving SNAP.

I will settle on that. I wasn't sure.

I'm not saying let's get an independent counsel statute back on the books, but I'm saying you're the Attorney General of the United States. This is a mess.

The quick response of the hot cup of coffee in the House of Representatives isn't adequate.

I think the Administration has made the decision to totally tear asunder the rule of law and grant administrative amnesty to 5 or more million people, and do so while this Congress is out of session.

I took Mr. Gutierrez's advice last weekend and went down to the border, started at the mouth of the Rio Grande River.

No matter what side of the aisle you sit on, we can all agree on the importance of SNAP and helping those in need.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

So it's really not a matter of illegal immigration, it is a humanitarian disaster with children, not parents but children, babies.

The most violent countries in the world, 8 of 10 of them are to our southern border.

If we're going to move kids into America with the idea that we're going to get them away from violence, we at least have to keep them out of Detroit.

I think we're consistent with that in our testimony that I hear, or at least relatively close.

I would ask if you could speak to that issue, because I don't think we heard from your side of this.