Steve King

I have an obligation to defend them wherever I can.

This debate came here because it has been shut down in the Rules Committee.

I have a philosophical position that I have long held that we should guarantee equal opportunity for all, and special preference for none.

I am committed to no longer allowing any federal funds from getting into ACORN's coffers until such time as there is a completed investigation.

I disagreed with her opinion, and yet I recall that she said--she wrote in that opinion that perhaps there would be a time in the future, perhaps 25 years in the future, where we could back and revisit and where we would no longer justify…

The question becomes how much discretion?

I think we should adhere to them, even up to the point of allowing a witness to leave when the agreement is that the witness be allowed to leave.

You certainly rank among the best we have seen.

I really take the opportunity to thank all the witnesses and glad to have the chance to do so.

It is easy to point fingers. It is easy to make allegations. It is much more difficult to make a cogent case against deferred prosecution agreements.

Members of Congress instead just simply offer earmarks for their endowments.

There is a significant amount of disagreement and the clash that has just taken place between Mr. Cohen and Mr. Christie.

I would just seek to frame for this Committee that we have seen many of the members of the former Bush administration before this Committee during his tenure as President of the United States and then after.

It was an exemplary display of how a witness can come before this Committee fully informed, giving direct answers soundly based in legal analysis and theory.

But it looks to me like perhaps all of that $89,000 that Speaker Pelosi spent to purchase these carbon credits essentially brought about no change in anyone's behavior.

The underlying science that drives this entire global warming initiative, is that something that you have examined? And are you comfortable with the science?

We passed, over my objection, the TARP funding last fall, the $780 billion.

How do we preserve free enterprise, how do we preserve the rights of property, the rights of contract, the rights of franchise?

I hope we don't end up subsidizing the shipping of American jobs to other countries.

I believe the prosecutor is looking at this. Department of Justice attorneys would look at 1001, absolutely, as a possible statute to be applied.

I am familiar with 1001, yes.

I appreciate your testimony and I think it reflects the long service to this country and the significant depth of knowledge that has been built upon that experience.

What my amendment does is it establishes--we will have an online education Web site that is part of this--but my amendment establishes an online Web site for use by potential and existing entrepreneurs to facilitate peer-to-peer technical…

Having spent nearly 30 years as an entrepreneur myself with a small business and sold that off to my second-generation oldest son, I looked at this proposal that is here.

What I really have is a statement that I intended to introduce.