Steve King News

Here is some good news for everyone who likes half-assed attempts at "rebranding" and "message adjustments."

With polls showing Republicans lacking a front-runner for their presidential nomination in 2016, in recent days draft efforts have claimed momentum for two political outsiders -- Judge Andrew Napolitano and physician Dr. Ben Carson.

Governor Branstad and Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey sent a letter to Senator Tom Harkin this week, asking Harkin to support the King amendment as part of the Farm Bill negotiations.

History will record that on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary met to consider the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama.

When the House voted last September to cut $40 billion from the federal food stamp program over 10 years, all but 15 Republicans supported the measure while not a single Democrat did so.

The House Judiciary Committee this week sounded like the living room after Thanksgiving dinner.

After both headlines and some activists in New Jersey called Chris Christie a flip flopper on an important state immigration issue this week, a Democratic group is trying to align the New Jersey governor with controversial Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

As Congress hammers out details of a farm bill to set agricultural policy for the next five years, most attention has focused on the debates over food stamps and agricultural subsidies.

Top Iowa state officials are asking Sen. Tom Harkin to support a provision by Iowa Rep. Steve King meant to protect Iowa's egg industry.

Doug Sedenquist, a Michigan GOP committeeman, was reportedly charged with felonies in Escanaba, Mich.

History will record that on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary met to consider the impeachment of Barack Hussein Obama.

That seems to be the approach Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad is taking in his defense of the renewable-fuel standard.

Jason Chaffetz, a Tea Party congressman from Utah, raised eyebrows by appearing at a late November fundraiser for a local elected official in Iowa.

My usual answer is a shrug and an admission that there's no silver bullet. There are many possibilities-campaign spending limits, term limits, nonpartisan primaries, nonpartisan redistricting, a third party-but most aren't politically or legally feasible, might not make much of a difference or, as with Harry Reid's rewriting of Senate rules, have ... (more)

House Democrats are blocking their Republican colleagues from using Obamacare in letters mailed on the taxpayer's dime to voters, but who made up the term in the first place? Lots of people are asking this question, getting answers like "Certainly a republican, potentially Glenn Beck" and "I am about 80% sure it was Rush Limbaugh" and "Hillary ... (more)

The GOP could conceivably capture the Senate by winning in seven states currently represented by Democrats but that Mitt Romney carried.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas initially announced on November 17 that bipartisan progress was being made on the farm bill.

A comment by U.S. Rep. Steve King of Iowa comparing Mexican immigrants to drug mules with "cantaloupe-sized calves" is the top outlandish statement the Republican congressman has made in 2013, according to MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews.

Sharon Oetting farms 700 acres of corn and soybeans near Concordia, Mo. The Thanksgiving holiday gives her and her friends and neighbors a chance to celebrate a strong agricultural economy and a good harvest.

This year is my eighth Thanksgiving since I moved back to Iowa City, and I'm giving thanks for that.