U.S. Rep. Steve King (R - IA)
Representative Steve King (R-IA)
Steve King began his career by starting King Construction in 1975 and built the business up from one bulldozer. He then served in the Iowa state Senate for six years getting himself involved in multiple committees. King was elected into Congress in 2002 and continues to serve today. He has long been dedicated to adding value as close to the corn stalk and bean stubble as possible, as many times as possible. Official Bio
Birthday: May 28, 1949
Committees: Judiciary Committee and Agriculture Committee
The Issues: Find our where Rep. King stands on the issues
Other: Steve King is married and has three grown sons and two grandchildren.
Quote: "I have spent my life’s work in conservation through my earth moving construction company. I know first hand that farmers do not want to limit their harvest because of an endangered weed located on their property, especially when their family depends on a successful season. It is time to repeal this broken law and improve it so we preserve the rights of our private landowners."
Steve King began his career by starting King Construction in 1975 and built the business up from one bulldozer. He then served in the Iowa state Senate for six years getting himself involved in multiple committees. King was elected into Congress in 2002 and continues to serve today. He has long been dedicated to adding value as close to the corn stalk and bean stubble as possible, as many times as possible. Official Bio
Birthday: May 28, 1949
Committees: Judiciary Committee and Agriculture Committee
The Issues: Find our where Rep. King stands on the issues
Other: Steve King is married and has three grown sons and two grandchildren.
Quote: "I have spent my life’s work in conservation through my earth moving construction company. I know first hand that farmers do not want to limit their harvest because of an endangered weed located on their property, especially when their family depends on a successful season. It is time to repeal this broken law and improve it so we preserve the rights of our private landowners."
Number of Questions Asked: 1
Number of Answers Provided: 3
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Since you are so strongly opposed to a single-payer, government-run health care program, are you willing to give up your Medicare, which IS a single-payer, government-run,efficient program?
Asked by: Kate B. from Saint Charles, IA. Received 7 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
King: Well, if you say get rid of Medicare, you have to say get rid of Social Security and Medicaid. Those policies are established, they have created constituency bases, our entire society and culture has been rearranged because of them. The family dependency that we used to have where we took care of our parents and grandparents among our family and we liked to have big families then, so we had plenty of kids to pass us around when we got older. That's all disappeared.
Answered on Nov 23rd, 2009 More
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If Healthcare reform is such a job killer explain the fact that current health insurance premiums, which have risen over 400% in the last 8 years, currently stop businesses from hiring new employees due to excessive cost? Wouldn't single-payer (HUGE risk pool of 300M people) funded by taxpayers actually RELIEVE that burden on taxpayers?
Asked by: David Simmons from Cary, NC. Received 6 Votes.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Three hundred million people is a huge risk pool, I'll concede that point. A 400% increase in eight years in premiums that's numbers I have not seen, but I can tell you I have looked exactly at numbers that calculate off of the legislation here in the House of Representatives, and it would be the $84 a month premium to the 25-year-old man in Indianapolis for example that would triple in cost immediately upon enactment of the bill. This would be a multiplier for a premium of a family of four, age 40, relatively healthy.
Answered on Nov 23rd, 2009 More
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Do you think that market forces, if left unimpeded, will help pull this country out of the current economic downturn? Or do you think that it is the government's necessary responsibility to balance the market? How does your answer impact how you vote on legislation: from health care to environment to judicial nominations?
Asked by: Elvin J. from Nashville, TN. Received 1 Vote.
Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
Well, I don't think it's the government's responsibility to balance the market. I don't think government can do that.I'm an Adam Smith type of an economist and as a young man, I poked through his book "Wealth of Nations" and mine I think has 1,057 pages in it. I studied it carefully forward and back and it put me to sleep a lot of nights. But, in the end, I came out of it believing that free market forces are what will save this economy and government cannot manage this, it's got to be supply and demand, it's got to be the invisible hand and we need to get government out of the way.
Answered on Nov 23rd, 2009 More
