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Title: King passed over for immigration subcommittee chairmanship
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The Des Moines Register
URL Source: http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/ ... ion-subcommittee-chairmanship/
Published: Jan 7, 2011
Author: Tom Beaumont
Post Date: 2011-01-07 23:59:57 by Hondo68
Keywords: secure borders FIRST, amnesty SECOND, open borders Republicans
Views: 3021
Comments: 2
Iowa Congressman Steve King, one of the House Republican majority’s most zealous illegal immigration opponents, will not lead the new Republican majority’s immigration-policy subcommittee. King, a Kiron Republican, has been ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration and enforcement subcommittee since 2007. But Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas announced Friday that King would be vice chairman, and that California Congressman Elton Gallegly would lead the subcommittee. King said he had expected to be the subcommittee’s chairman in a Republican-controlled House. King declined to say why he was not selected, except that Smith likely received guidance from new House Speaker John Boehner. Judiciary Committee aides did not return messages seeking comment on the decision. “There’s an agenda that’s true of all committees that is driven by the chairman of the overall committee, and the chairman of the overall committee takes his marching orders from the top leader,” King said in an telephone interview. King stopped short of saying he was disappointed, and argued that he could be more vocal as vice chairman of the subcommittee than if he were bound by the constraints of chairmanship. “I’m going to drive an immigration agenda, and it’s going to be with probably more vigor than I would have otherwise, with no reservations about pushing hard for it,” King said. “It isn’t about selling people in Congress. It’s about winning the debate with the American people. If the American people take a position, they will adjust the positions of the members in Congress.” “I would suggest that I’m a member with fewer limitations than I might have had otherwise,” he added. King was a lead advocate of building a fence along the U.S. border with Mexico, and in 2006 built a model of a concrete barrier on the House floor. King on Friday introduced legislation to prohibit citizenship to children born in the United States to parents in the country illegally. The U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Poster Comment: "King declined to say why he was not selected, except that Smith likely received guidance from new House Speaker John Boehner." 
Iowa Congressman Steve King, R-Kiron
The guy heading the subcommittee (Gallegly) and Boehner want to "secure the border first", strongly implying that AMNESTY will be 2nd on their agenda.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
You mean the alleged Republicans run for office as conservatives and then turn into Dims after the election is over?????? I'm shocked! SHOCKED,I TELL YA! Who could have ever seen this coming?
#2. To: sneakypete, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#1)
Bohener, Gallergy, etc, are as real as Republicans get. They're genuine McCain/Palin liberal anti-American globalist Bushbots. Conservative pro-American RINO's like King, have to sit in the back of the bus, and STFU! Those are the rules set by the big money boys, and they won't be changing IMO.
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