Steve King

If you are committing a felony, we likely don't have the resources to prosecute you.

We know we are not interdicting half of those that come across.

If we had the ability to actually leverage full enforcement at the border, then it would be actually a deterrent effect.

I am opposed to it, that we don't support administrative amnesty.

We bring into this country, on average, legally, over a million people a year--by far the most generous nation on Earth.

We are often looking at immigration policy piecemeal, and how does it fit in to the whole?

It doesn't make me a hypocrite. It makes me a businessman, and the United States of America prints the money, sets the policy for the country, and we will be in perpetual debt, and we will be Greece if we don't get this under control.

I think the point that was made that is most significant with regard to the witness' testimony was that Governor Thornburgh doesn't believe that many States would want to repeal our balanced budget amendment requirement.

I believe the momentum to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment would come directly out of the passage of the fair tax.

I have been for, the national sales tax, for a long time because everybody becomes a taxpayer.

I have a little granddaughter that just turned a year old the other day and she was born into this world with $44,000 worth of debt.

We would have concerns, Congressman, on both levels.

I would also have the Congress codify no proliferation.

I think it is unfortunate in one regard that the committee has to spend the time to look at a federal agency like we are doing today.

The return on investment for the substantial contributions made to the other party did not result in legislative relief.

It strikes me that this has nothing to do with an administration of rights.

The real question that is before us is not specifically how does it--how does ethanol affect feed prices for poultry or hogs or cattle, any of the other feed sources that might be out there, but we are really dealing with an equation here…

When things are bad, when things are hard, you start to generate new ideas to try to solve that situation.

I happen to represent the district that is number one in pork, that is number one in eggs, it is number one in renewable energy of all kinds.

I might just challenge the president and the Democrat: Are you opposed to a balance budget? It's what it takes to get this Congress responsible.

What it does is, it takes the $31 billion in cuts from the Ryan budget and reduces them down to $7 billion is all.

I would like to just challenge the President and the Democrat: Why are you opposed to a balance budget?

So, logical solutions can't be applied because illogical people won't go along with it.

I would like to see a balanced budget amendment go to the states.

Well, the only thing we can really count on is what we can control in this next upcoming fiscal year of 2012.