Steve King

Just in the last few months, Congressman, this board is proposing in its general counsel to consider changing over 100 years--maybe up to 130 years of precedent in addition to changing over 30 or 40 years of established procedure and…

The board, like every federal agency, Congressman, comes to this body and asks for resources. If these resources are being diverted to these policy efforts and not, as I mentioned, to addressing their current case load, which is…

Excellent question. Up to 4,000 could come back. That is just over the last 20 years of board decisions. They would be void.

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…

I would recommend that your staff clip that 5 or 6 minutes of your opening statement out and put that up on the Internet and perhaps use it as a training for other members that might come before the Judiciary Committee.

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…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Iowa will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Ms. Brownley of California

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 22, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $5,000,000) (increased by $5,000,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

I believe in property rights, and I oppose property takings by government or anybody else.

If that becomes law, will you cooperate with the Department of Justice in that particular investigation?

If this Administration would come out strongly in favor of the repeal of COOL, we could get this done and get it to the President's desk.

I would say that, as I have watched this, it was relatively simple in 2008, and it has gotten more and more complex since then.

If the Administration would strongly come out and support voluntary COOL or repeal of mandatory COOL, we could get this done in the House and the Senate

I actually went on the Internet, and I thought what kind of corn increases have we seen in the memory of my lifetime?

I do not take direct direction from the President, and it is your job to provide equal justice under the law.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and, also, Mr. Young for his authorship of this bill. It changed dramatically what I had to say when I came down here when I heard that the Republican endeavor to reestablish the 40-hour workweek, which…

There were three provisions I would have liked to have seen that would have treated the livestock producers a lot better.

I think we have made a lot of progress in that situation.

I appreciate your service in coming here to testify this morning.

I thank the gentleman. I want to make a point. The President even amended ObamaCare by press conference, which is completely outrageous. Not to get to the immigration components of this, there is nothing in this that deports anyone. The…

It is my privilege to be recognized and to address you here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. Of all the things that are on my mind that I would like to express to you, I know that there are also a good number of…

The President had spoken orally in a press conference, and the insurance companies lined up to do his will and his bidding.

There is unlikely any law that we could possibly pass here in the Congress that is going to compel the President to enforce it unless it is to his political interest to do so.

If you have a problem and you are trying to fix this problem and you do not see that there is a solution coming.

The deportations right now--the removals right now all together, and that in the definition of deportations used in this report, are lower than they have been since 1973.