Steve King

And I think you are a testimonial to that as well, Mr. Williams, and I thank you for being here.

None on the panel? That makes a point that I wanted to hear made today and I thank you all for your testimony.

And I support the idea of doing all we can to keep you all around.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Appreciate being recognized and appreciate your testimony, Mr. Bloom.

Could you let this Committee know what union funds are involved in the transaction?

Would you consider the union pension funds and the other capital investments that went into this private capital or public capital?

I think all small business people are a minority, and they face a lot of the same kind of problems.

I would submit this thought for the deliberation of the panel, and also the witnesses, because you're part of the brain trust here today, that if we had a statute that we could use to charge these detainees when they attack our guards…

In the case of important national security issues, when the Court has made, in the collective judgment of the Congress and the executive branch, an extraconstitutional decision...

What is the Chairman and the Chairman of the Subcommittee and the full Committee, what's their alternative if the Supreme Court determines that they are going to make decisions that put the security of the United States at risk?

We have those circumstances that arise, yes.

I suggest that we proceed under the laws that we had passed that were legitimate, because national security is more important.

I think the majority of the D.C. Circuit would agree with me.

The nine Supreme Court Justices are the last nine people on the planet that should be amending our Constitution.

I would tell them that we have given them direction that's consistent with the Constitution, and we have national security at stake.

I think that this Congress has got to jealousy protect its constitutional power, or we end up with these kind of analyses that cause us to jump through these hoops.

This is a political decision, not a prudent one, and there will be more that will, and among them----

I don't know how we gain anything by handing someone over to a committee to be determined whether they're going to go to the United States where they can be released into the streets of the United States.

I think the Supreme Court has outstepped its bounds more than once with regard to these issues that have to do with the detainees.

This Congress has gone through, jumped through a lot of hoops to try to accommodate some judgments of the Supreme Court.

I simply want to illuminate the other side of the argument.

I want to congratulate you and Mr. Graves and all of those who have set this tone that this Committee does work for the best interest of small business in America.

They are an organization that has been announced within the last couple of days that it is their endeavor to broaden their reach.

It is to my endeavor that they not receive it.

This is an amendment that addresses the issue of the organization that is known collectively as ACORN.