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Steve King, the Iowa GOP congressman who once said that DREAM Act beneficiaries are mostly drug runners with “calves the size of cantaloupes because they’ve been hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert,” said yesterday that he expects to be “deeply engaged” in immigration policy if Donald Trump is to become president, boasting that a “good amount” of the immigration policies on Trump’s website are “a copy-and-paste from things that I’ve done.” King told Jeff Angelo, who was guest-hosting the Iowa talk radio program “Mickelson in the Morning,” that his legislative priorities in the next Congress would depend on...

I think there is some industry specific reason for this. King want to offload as much Corn on to the world market. Him and Chuck Grassley want their land to double in price. They are always hawking ethanol in fuel on twitter. Vitter wants the same with sugarcane and oil. Whereas the nerds like Cruz, Ben Sasse, Paul Ryan and that used Car Salemsan Jeb Henriquez Hensarling think its hipster to support trade.

So-called Obamacare “architect” Jonathan Gruber was called to testify at a Tuesday House regarding his past controversial remarks about the creation and passage of the health care law. While many of the testy exchanges that occurred during the hearing were covered and even trumpeted by conservative media, a furious Mark Levin said the exercise was pointless. “The very Republicans grilling this guy don’t plan to do a damn thing about Obamacare! They’re not going to use the power of the purse to control any piece of it!” Levin shouted on the air. “So, what is the point of a hearing?...

The congressman speaks with Jim Rutenberg about the “I-word” and showing Gov. Chris Christie the ropes in Iowa. Your outspoken nature has drawn national attention, especially on Twitter. You and your wife have had some fun reading the nastier tweets in public. Any favorites? One said I smelled like “mothballs and dusty Bibles,” or something like that. (SNIP) We picked up 15 seats in the House and maybe nine in the Senate. That’s the kind of punishment I can handle. (SNIP) Whatever kind of crisis emerges, the agenda that they have long advocated for magically becomes the silver bullet for...

Rep. Steve King took his crusade to block President Obama’s executive action on immigration to “The Steve Deace Show” last night, where the Iowa congressman urged House Republicans to thwart immigration reform even if it results in a government shutdown. “Let’s throw out the fact that we have a Marxist in the White House and our very way of life is at stake,” Deace explained, “could an argument be made that a smart political move is to actually have a showdown with the president right now?” (SNIP) “The people would have twenty-three months to forget, presumably, but I would like...

An 18-year-old teen living in Amherst could be deported for allegedly raping a minor. The Erie County Sheriff’s Office arrested Herwinder Singh on September 9 and charged him with forcibly having sex with a minor.

"Aren't Border Patrol agents who do food prep, laundry, shower runs, diapers & warm bottles for illegal kids "doing work Americans won't do?" Iowa Rep. Steve King isn’t alone in wondering why the Border Patrol seems to be doing everything but patrolling the border to keep it secure.

Timco Worldwide Inc. announced a voluntary recall on its Sundia brand cantaloupes, saying the melons potentially are contaminated with salmonella. Woodland, Calif.-based Timco Wednesday said 504 cartons of the melons, which were grown in Mexico, were distributed in Phoenix; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Dallas and Okeechobee, Fla., between Oct. 30 and Nov. 6. Routine sampling of the products, conducted at the border by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, showed the presence of the salmonella organism in a portion of the cantaloupes. Timco hired third-party testers, who did not find the bacteria when they sampled the same lot of produce. Salmonella...