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- Joined
- Feb 26, 2012
- Messages
- 13,965
- Steven Arnold "Steve" King was born May 28, 1949 to Mildred Lila and Emmett A. King.
- Steve King has continuously voted for Iraq War legislation, and has supported surge efforts and opposed a time table for troop withdrawals.
- Steve King voted NO on protecting whistleblowers from employer recrimination. This bill would strengthen one of our most important weapons against waste, fraud and abuse, and that is Federal whistleblower protections. Federal employees are on the inside and offer accountability. They can see where there is waste going on or if there is corruption going on. One of the most important provisions protects national security whistleblowers. There are a lot of Federal officials who knew the intelligence on Iraq was wrong. But none of these officials could come forward. If they did, they could have been stripped of their security clearances, or they could have been fired. Nobody blew the whistle on the phony intelligence that got us into the Iraq war.
- Steve King Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
- Steve King voted NO on requiring FISA warrants for wiretaps in US, but not abroad. (Mar 2008)
- Steve King voted NO on restricting no-bid defense contracts. (Mar 2007)
- Steve King voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. (Sep 2006)
- Steve King voted YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight. (Apr 2006)
- Steve King voted NO on removing US armed forces from Afghanistan. (Mar 2011)
- Steve King voted YES on H.Res. 99 - Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 933 (the Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government). This closed rule does allow for any extended debate or amendments to the Continuing Resolution, thus allowing a bill that spends at the rate of over $1 trillion per year to be passed without any input from individual Members of Congress on the floor of the House.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 933 - Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government. This bill contains the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government in lieu of a budget. The House, which controls the power of the purse, could have defunded ObamaCare or made any number of spending reforms through this bill to address the nation's massive annual deficits. Instead, the bill was brought to the floor under a closed rule that did not allow amendments or extended debate, and simply continued the current levels of deficit spending under the law.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 1947 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill). The so-called "Farm Bill" is actually a combination of agricultural policy and welfare, with food stamps accounting for 80 percent of the bill's nearly trillion dollars in projected spending. Aside from failing to contain the multitude of faults within the rapidly-expanding food welfare programs, the agricultural portion of the bill is an amalgam of direct corporate welfare for insurance companies and farm corporations and special carve-outs and price supports for the specific industries with the best lobbyists.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 258 to H.R. 2609 - To eliminate $1.544 billion from funding for various energy R&D programs. This amendment by Rep. McClintock would cut $1.544 billion from various research and development programs for alternative energy. The free market can take care of researching and development the next generation of energy technologies far more efficiently than the federal government can, without the distorting effect of the government picking winners and losers.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill). This version of the Farm Bill contains only the actual agricultural side of the earlier bill, leaving food stamps to be considered as their own bill. Unfortunately, this bill actually makes the Farm Bill worse by making the billions in subsidies to farm corporations and dozens of special hand-outs to favored industries permanent, instead of making free market reforms. The bill also still contains the brand new, unnecessary "shallow-loss" crop insurance entitlement, which will actually increase the Farm Bill's cost.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 413 to H.R. 2397 - to prevent the NSA from blanket metadata collection on Americans without specific authorization. This amendment to the DoD Appropriations Act, by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), protects a basic 4th Amendment right by requiring that the NSA can only gather electronic data from people who are actively under an investigation with approval of the FISA court. This is basic due process under the law - you need a specific warrant to search and seize an individual's physical property; the same should apply to that individual's communications and digital property.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 4628 - To extend student loan interest rates for undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans. This bill would keep student loan rates at 3.4 percent instead of allowing them to rise to their 2007 level of 6.8 percent. Artificially keeping student loan rates low not only costs taxpayers billions of dollars, it also distorts markets by encouraging students to take loans that they otherwise may not have been able to afford, which in turn encourages colleges to charge more for tuition.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt.1178 to H.R 5325 - to eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program. This amendment would eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, which directly subsidizes green energy companies. This program is pure corporate welfare, with the government picking winners and losers in the energy sector, and eliminating it would save taxpayers $1.45 billion annually.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 5972 - Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. This bill provides funding for the Departments of Transportation and Housing & Urban Development. It increases funding for such unnecessary programs as Amtrak, the Essential Air Service, and community development block grants. The bill fails to make any real cuts to spending, in spite of the country's massive deficits.
- Steve King voted YES on On the Conference Report: H.R. 4348 - To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway ... transit, and other programs. FreedomWorks opposes this bill because it reauthorizes federal highway spending at a level that far exceeds its revenue from the gas tax. This bill also includes an amendment which continues the artificial lowering of student loan rates, a practice which encourages students to incur debt that they cannot afford to pay back.
- Steve King voted NO on Agreeing: H.Amdt.397 to H.R. 2017 - to reduce spending of the legislation by 10%. The amendment to Homeland Security appropriations would cut funding to that department by 10% across the board. This would save over $3.5 billion from current funding levels.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 428 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $700 million dollars in waste to pay off the debt.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 443 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $900 million in waste and apply to a spending reduction account.
- Steve King voted YES on On Passage: H R 2346 Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009. The bill includes a $100 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. The bill contains funding for other projects that should not be used as a vehicle to ram IMF funding through Congress. Using this method to get the IMF funding passed is dirty Washington politics and law makers should reject it.
- Steve King voted YES on Passage: H R 1495 Water Resources Development Act. This water projects bill is bloated with over 900 special-interest earmarks, which far exceeds the $4.9 billion requested by the Army Corps of Engineers. The bill does not set any priorities and would result in funding for truly essential projects, like protections in Louisiana against future hurricanes, being drowned out in a sea of pork.
- Steve King voted NO on On Agreeing to the Amendment: H.Amdt.904. An amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available in the Act from being used to An amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available in the Act from being used to fund dairy education in Iowa. There is no reason that taxpayers should be forced to subsidize dairy education.
- Steve King voted YES on On Passage: H R 3 Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. This is a $295 billion transportation bill that breaks that budget agreement. The bill, H.R. 3, is more than $11 billion larger than the agreed upon allotment for transportation.
- Steve King voted NO on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society. Some 650,000 men and women are leaving the Federal and State prisons each year. This exacts a terrible cost in financial terms [welfare] as well as in human terms. The Second Chance Act will help provide these men and women with the training, counseling and other support needed to help them obtain & hold steady jobs; to kick their drug and alcohol habits; rebuild their families; and deal with the many other challenges that they face in their efforts to successfully rejoin society.
- Steve King is committed to unbreakable U.S. - Israel bond. (Mar 2010)
http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Steve_King.htm
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For a list of all potential candidates:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-Presidential-Candidates-List-And-Information
- Steve King has continuously voted for Iraq War legislation, and has supported surge efforts and opposed a time table for troop withdrawals.
- Steve King voted NO on protecting whistleblowers from employer recrimination. This bill would strengthen one of our most important weapons against waste, fraud and abuse, and that is Federal whistleblower protections. Federal employees are on the inside and offer accountability. They can see where there is waste going on or if there is corruption going on. One of the most important provisions protects national security whistleblowers. There are a lot of Federal officials who knew the intelligence on Iraq was wrong. But none of these officials could come forward. If they did, they could have been stripped of their security clearances, or they could have been fired. Nobody blew the whistle on the phony intelligence that got us into the Iraq war.
- Steve King Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
- Steve King voted NO on requiring FISA warrants for wiretaps in US, but not abroad. (Mar 2008)
- Steve King voted NO on restricting no-bid defense contracts. (Mar 2007)
- Steve King voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant. (Sep 2006)
- Steve King voted YES on continuing intelligence gathering without civil oversight. (Apr 2006)
- Steve King voted NO on removing US armed forces from Afghanistan. (Mar 2011)
- Steve King voted YES on H.Res. 99 - Rule providing for consideration of H.R. 933 (the Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government). This closed rule does allow for any extended debate or amendments to the Continuing Resolution, thus allowing a bill that spends at the rate of over $1 trillion per year to be passed without any input from individual Members of Congress on the floor of the House.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 933 - Continuing Resolution to fund the United States government. This bill contains the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government in lieu of a budget. The House, which controls the power of the purse, could have defunded ObamaCare or made any number of spending reforms through this bill to address the nation's massive annual deficits. Instead, the bill was brought to the floor under a closed rule that did not allow amendments or extended debate, and simply continued the current levels of deficit spending under the law.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 1947 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill). The so-called "Farm Bill" is actually a combination of agricultural policy and welfare, with food stamps accounting for 80 percent of the bill's nearly trillion dollars in projected spending. Aside from failing to contain the multitude of faults within the rapidly-expanding food welfare programs, the agricultural portion of the bill is an amalgam of direct corporate welfare for insurance companies and farm corporations and special carve-outs and price supports for the specific industries with the best lobbyists.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 258 to H.R. 2609 - To eliminate $1.544 billion from funding for various energy R&D programs. This amendment by Rep. McClintock would cut $1.544 billion from various research and development programs for alternative energy. The free market can take care of researching and development the next generation of energy technologies far more efficiently than the federal government can, without the distorting effect of the government picking winners and losers.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 2642 - Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act (Farm Bill). This version of the Farm Bill contains only the actual agricultural side of the earlier bill, leaving food stamps to be considered as their own bill. Unfortunately, this bill actually makes the Farm Bill worse by making the billions in subsidies to farm corporations and dozens of special hand-outs to favored industries permanent, instead of making free market reforms. The bill also still contains the brand new, unnecessary "shallow-loss" crop insurance entitlement, which will actually increase the Farm Bill's cost.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 413 to H.R. 2397 - to prevent the NSA from blanket metadata collection on Americans without specific authorization. This amendment to the DoD Appropriations Act, by Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), protects a basic 4th Amendment right by requiring that the NSA can only gather electronic data from people who are actively under an investigation with approval of the FISA court. This is basic due process under the law - you need a specific warrant to search and seize an individual's physical property; the same should apply to that individual's communications and digital property.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 4628 - To extend student loan interest rates for undergraduate Federal Direct Stafford Loans. This bill would keep student loan rates at 3.4 percent instead of allowing them to rise to their 2007 level of 6.8 percent. Artificially keeping student loan rates low not only costs taxpayers billions of dollars, it also distorts markets by encouraging students to take loans that they otherwise may not have been able to afford, which in turn encourages colleges to charge more for tuition.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt.1178 to H.R 5325 - to eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program. This amendment would eliminate the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program, which directly subsidizes green energy companies. This program is pure corporate welfare, with the government picking winners and losers in the energy sector, and eliminating it would save taxpayers $1.45 billion annually.
- Steve King voted YES on H.R. 5972 - Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development. This bill provides funding for the Departments of Transportation and Housing & Urban Development. It increases funding for such unnecessary programs as Amtrak, the Essential Air Service, and community development block grants. The bill fails to make any real cuts to spending, in spite of the country's massive deficits.
- Steve King voted YES on On the Conference Report: H.R. 4348 - To provide an extension of Federal-aid highway ... transit, and other programs. FreedomWorks opposes this bill because it reauthorizes federal highway spending at a level that far exceeds its revenue from the gas tax. This bill also includes an amendment which continues the artificial lowering of student loan rates, a practice which encourages students to incur debt that they cannot afford to pay back.
- Steve King voted NO on Agreeing: H.Amdt.397 to H.R. 2017 - to reduce spending of the legislation by 10%. The amendment to Homeland Security appropriations would cut funding to that department by 10% across the board. This would save over $3.5 billion from current funding levels.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 428 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $700 million dollars in waste to pay off the debt.
- Steve King voted NO on H.Amdt. 443 to H.R. 2112 - to cut $900 million in waste and apply to a spending reduction account.
- Steve King voted YES on On Passage: H R 2346 Supplemental Appropriations, FY 2009. The bill includes a $100 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout. The bill contains funding for other projects that should not be used as a vehicle to ram IMF funding through Congress. Using this method to get the IMF funding passed is dirty Washington politics and law makers should reject it.
- Steve King voted YES on Passage: H R 1495 Water Resources Development Act. This water projects bill is bloated with over 900 special-interest earmarks, which far exceeds the $4.9 billion requested by the Army Corps of Engineers. The bill does not set any priorities and would result in funding for truly essential projects, like protections in Louisiana against future hurricanes, being drowned out in a sea of pork.
- Steve King voted NO on On Agreeing to the Amendment: H.Amdt.904. An amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available in the Act from being used to An amendment to prohibit any of the funds made available in the Act from being used to fund dairy education in Iowa. There is no reason that taxpayers should be forced to subsidize dairy education.
- Steve King voted YES on On Passage: H R 3 Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users. This is a $295 billion transportation bill that breaks that budget agreement. The bill, H.R. 3, is more than $11 billion larger than the agreed upon allotment for transportation.
- Steve King voted NO on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society. Some 650,000 men and women are leaving the Federal and State prisons each year. This exacts a terrible cost in financial terms [welfare] as well as in human terms. The Second Chance Act will help provide these men and women with the training, counseling and other support needed to help them obtain & hold steady jobs; to kick their drug and alcohol habits; rebuild their families; and deal with the many other challenges that they face in their efforts to successfully rejoin society.
- Steve King is committed to unbreakable U.S. - Israel bond. (Mar 2010)
http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Steve_King.htm
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For a list of all potential candidates:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showth...-Presidential-Candidates-List-And-Information
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