Just now I sat down in a plush leather chair in room 1131 of the Longworth House Office Building -  to put your questions about the economy to Rep. Steve King, Republican of Iowa and well-known opponent of immigration, government regulation and just about everything folks in the Democratic Party hold dear. The irony was not lost on either of us that Al Gore once occupied the same office now held by a man who thinks global warming is bogus.
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