Steve King

I thank the witnesses for your testimony. And this has been an engaging hearing, and I am looking forward to your answers.

I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding and for leading this Special Order on this 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Forty has a lot of biblical implications. Moses led them wandering in the desert for 40 years, and Jesus spent…

North Carolina: William Blount, Richard Dobbs Spaight, Hugh Williamson. South Carolina: John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Charles Pinckney, Pierce Butler. Georgia: William Few, Abraham Baldwin. New Hampshire: John Langdon…

This evening on rollcall No. 645, the Conference Report for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, I intended to vote ``no'' but mistakenly cast a ``yes'' vote. ____________________

They interpreted the word significant to be insignificant, then, in other words?

I would first turn to Ms. Sommers.

I thank the gentleman. We only control between 7 percent and 11 percent of the legal immigration into this country on merit. The rest of that doesn't have anything to do with merit and how they contribute to the U.S. This bill does do…

I think it does 2 things: it gets a lot of the overregulation out of the books, and it makes the bureaucrats then listen to the people who are affected by those rules before they write them.

Each branch of government would jealously protect the power and authority granted to it within the Constitution

The effort on the part of the President to implement cap-and-trade by EPA rules is another one

The contraceptive, sterilization, abortifacient manufacture policy by the President of United States

Can't you come to Congress and ask us to fix this so that you do have the authority to have a legitimate competitive bidding process rather than one that opens the door up for suicide bids?

I know what the grandfather clause does, it takes away some of the resistance in the short term but eventually ends up with the same result in the long term.

I think it's important to get that consistency, if I may, you are talking about, sir, that there is a grandfathering provision.

What happens under this proposal to patient choice?

You do write the specifications for the bid, correct, and you have the statutory authority to do that?

I never said nor do I believe a woman, including minors, cannot get pregnant from rape, statutory rape or incest. Suggesting otherwise is ridiculous, shameful, disgusting, and nothing but an attempt to falsely define who I am.

I just haven't heard of that being a circumstance. It's been brought to me in any personal way and I would be open to hearing discussion about that subject matter.

And in conclusion then, a State that chose the next leader of the free world in the year 2000, I think that illustrates the kind of confusion we could have if we do not have an official language that we vote in, we make decisions in, and…

I can see you are not going to answer my question. But I really expected more of an objective answer.

We followed the model of the United States of America. You have been so successful with your assimilation because English is the common language of the United States.

I think they will reflect a lot of the practices in Florida.

If it is an official function of the Federal Government, then it directs those functions to be in English.

This is about unity.

It raises the expectation that as an American and American citizen, you have a stronger and broader obligation to learn English that binds us together.