Steve King

I think that would reflect that 81 percent of those violators are Hispanic.

I just began to ask the question that I didn't know the answer to and I asked staff to go back and find it for me.

If it had been a family member who had been killed by an illegal who would have otherwise not been in this country if the law had been enforced, if that had been your close family member, your sister for example, would you perhaps change…

Did you father ever advise you, as a matter of being a good citizen, that one needed to, as a matter of citizenship, help cooperate in enforcing immigration law in the United States?

The use of race or national origin in law enforcement is only strictly prohibited when race or national origin is the sole criteria for the law enforcement action.

The Supreme Court made clear in the 1981 case of Haig v. Agee that 'such holdings are appropriate given that it is obvious and unarguable that no government interest is more compelling than the security of the Nation.'

It is important that as we seek to enforce the law, that we also live under the law.

The Malthusian's have always been wrong. We have always risen to all of those challenges.

What a tremendous feat of survival and bravery that you were able to share with us.

I would ask unanimous consent to introduce this book, called 'Last Man Out.'

I do not want to see 537 fraudulent votes. I do not want to see one because it disenfranchises legitimate voters.

Can you imagine that there would be that many fraudulent voter registrations in a country and not have fraudulent votes cast off of those registrations?

I think you can get a truck anywhere in America in 48 hours.

I think that we should be compelled, as a Committee, to take a very close look at how we protect producers

Reclaiming my time, we would soon have Al Franken's version of fair and balanced. And before we go to the salt marsh mouse expert of California, I just want to point out that President Obama said that there would be no pet projects, and no…

However, this $30 million is an earmark in the stimulus plan, in the recovery plan. It is a direct violation of the mark laid down by the President of the United States that there wouldn't be any special projects set up by individual…

I remember the Presidential campaign. I remember John McCain and Barack Obama both taking the pledge that there would be no earmarks in their administration. And I want to point out that President Obama made the point specifically about…

It triggers in my memory how much money an aircraft carrier can be built for. Bloomberg reported on Monday that if you add up the commitments that the United States has made within the last year in economic stimulus plan in one kind or…

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the…

I happen to remember that's the day that President Bush signed the 2003 tax cuts, and really the only reason I remember that is because it's my birthday. It was a great present.

And I am happy to come here and present my version of my proposal for a solution. I would pick up on the gentleman from Ohio's statement of the deficit though in November being a minus $164 billion. I just punched the calculator and you…

In any case, this legislation simply says that any claims now would be resolved if this legislation passes, ``any and all claims, whether based on aboriginal or recognized title, are hereby extinguished.'' That's what this legislation…

I want to drill the entire Outer Continental Shelf, and I know of no natural gas spill that has affected the environment in a negative way. In fact, I don't know an Outer Continental Shelf oil drill that has affected the environment in any…

I would state to the gentleman from Texas that my view is that the free market does prevail and that more Btus of energy on the market will help to hold down the increase in prices, and, if all goes well, to actually reduce those prices of…

Let me just if I could then thank the gentleman and go through a list of things that I think that we should engage expand the supply of energy. Drill the Outer Continental Shelf, gas and oil. Drill ANWR. Open up nuclear. Drill non-national…