“Steve King” on The Daily Caller

It is downright amazing that the most momentous, and contemptible, piece of legislation Washington has seen in the last 50 years passed without tempting one Republican in the entire Congress to cross the aisle and join in. History will forever recall that Obamacare, in all its budget-busting and government-expanding glory, is entirely a creation of the Democrats, from the secret meetings where all 2,700 pages were drafted, to its final passage. And the GOP stayed unified throughout; not a single cat was lost in the herd! (more)

Georgia Republican Rep. Tom Graves told The Daily Caller that he thinks President Barack Obama “duped” the American people with the recent rule about contraception that has sparked controversy between the Catholic Church and the administration. (more)

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King hasn’t called for Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation over Operation Fast and Furious because he thinks Holder still owes the American people answers and explanations about “gun walking,” and that there’s a better chance they’ll get them from a sitting attorney general than one that has resigned. (more)

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King came to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002 after 28 years as a small businessman and state legislator. Today, he is an irritant to the Republican establishment, a hero to the grassroots tea party movement and a top target the Democrats are aiming to beat in 2012. (more)

Rep. Steve King, Iowa Republican, handicapped the Republican 2012 field, calling the media attack against Herman Cain “very disturbing” and saying that the door is still open for another “not-Romney” candidate to emerge. (more)

Iowa Rep. Steve King said Monday that President Obama could face impeachment if the country goes into default. (more)

Rep. Steve King of Iowa teamed up with Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Louie Gohmert of Texas to introduce legislation Wednesday that prioritizes federal spending if the debt limit is not raised. (more)

National Tea Party movement leaders are divided when it comes to whether or not they support the 11th hour budget deal House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama cut late Friday night. (more)

While most of Washington has been focused on what level of spending cuts will be agreed to in the current fiscal year, the more consequential question is whether Obamacare will be defunded or not. (more)

On Friday the Republican House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution for the current fiscal year that contained several amendments withholding all discretionary funding for Obamacare. Although this is an important step in overturning the Democrats’ government takeover of health care, more could have and should have been done. (more)

The House Leadership appears to be, to paraphrase Margret Thatcher, going wobbly. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has moved to include a straight repeal of Obamacare in the continuing resolution but has hit a roadblock from an unexpected place — House Republican Leadership. The continuing resolution is the bill needed to fund the government through the rest of the year. The King amendment would put the president in a box — would he shut down the government in order to ensure the continued government takeover of our health care system? (more)

Is Lawrence O’Donnell trying his hardest to fill a void left by the departure of Keith Olbermann? Aside from having an actual Republican member of Congress on his show — something Olbermann rarely did — one might make that conclusion after an appearance from Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King. (more)

The Tea Party Express hosted the first-ever digital town hall for multiple members of Congress who represent the Tea Party movement. Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Steve King of Iowa and Allen West of Florida, and Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Mike Lee of Utah and Orrin Hatch of Utah, all took questions from constituents nationwide at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. (more)

All of the Capitol Hill chest-thumping about spending cuts masks a fundamental paradox: how will Republicans make serious cuts in the entitlements their constituents love — and their local economies depend upon? Specifically, will Congressional Republicans (many of whom come from rural states and districts) make substantial cuts to farm subsidies? (more)

Tea Party groups FreedomWorks and Tea Party Express are both rolling out some new technology to keep grassroots conservatives connected with each other and with their elected leaders in Washington. (more)

Rep. Ed Royce, California Republican, is planning to introduce a national-level version of contentious Arizona state Senate Bill 1070, The Daily Caller has learned. Royce, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee’s Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade subcommittee, told TheDC his legislation would give state-level cops and local law enforcement nationwide the authority to enforce federal immigration laws. (more)

Republicans say a proliferation of sympathetic media outlets will make it easier for them to get their message across in the debate over health care and entitlement reform. (more)

On the first day of the 112th Congress, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) of the House Immigration Subcommittee introduced the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2011, H.R. 140, which would amend “the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States ‘subject to the jurisdiction of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is: (1) a U.S. citizen or national; (2) a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States; or (3) an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.” With the Congressional balance of power now in the hands of those who favor tighter immigration controls, the Birthright Citizenship Act (introduced in previous years by former congressman, and current governor of Georgia, Nathan Deal) is a front-page national immigration story — and a source of great confusion for the journalists who cover it. Here are just a few of the recent gaffes made by reputable papers. (more)

— “It is unlikely that House Republicans will take the vote to repeal the health care law, shrug their shoulders when it doesn’t reach the Senate, and move on,” writes The Daily Caller’s Chris Moody. “We aren’t going to just check the box off and say that we had one vote and we’re going to move on to other topics,” Rep. Michele Bachmann said Tuesday. Rep. Steve King echoed Bachmann’s sentiments, saying, “This is going to be a debate that goes on not just today and tomorrow and next week. It’s going to go on for the next year or two. It’s probably going to go on until we elect a president that will sign a final repeal of Obamacare. So this is an ongoing debate.” The GOP will fight, just like the Spartans fought at Thermopylae, until they are all dead of old age/exasperation, or until Americans return both the legislative branch and the executive branch to the second worst party in the country. In the meantime, House Republicans will build their own health care bill, starting with the key accomplishment of Obamacare: “A measure to restrict insurance companies from discriminating based on pre-existing conditions.” (more)

Advocates for health care reform like to say they worked for more than a century to get a substantive bill through Congress and signed into law. Opponents say they can scrap the whole thing in two years. (more)