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Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who seems to have made a second career in this sort of thing, is accusing the White House of promoting Democratic power lawyer Bob Bauer in order to cover up an ACORN scandal.

Here’s an interesting confrontation from a hearing on the Hill Wednesday between Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. King said he’d “scoured” Rush Limbaugh’s infamous comment that the media was giving Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb too much credit because he was black and found no racism in it whatsoever — Limbaugh, [...]

Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) today introduced — along with 75 other Republicans — a resolution to officially commemorate the 9/12 taxpayer march on Washington. Other sponsors of H.R. 870 include Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa.), and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), the party’s whip.
The odds of passage–which would demand [...]

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has brought 52 fellow Republicans together on a letter demanding the resignation of Kevin Jennings, the White House’s “safe schools czar.” Greg Sargent looks at the text of the letter, and how it maintains (wrongly) that Jennings covered up child sexual abuse. Here are the other Republicans:

I caught up with U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) at the How to Take Back America Conference to follow up on an issue that had come up there: “defunding the Left.” After ACORN, what was the next natural target for Republicans?
King said it would be the Service Employees International Union.
“When you think what happened to [...]

U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-Kiron) in National Review, today:
If I was going to put a label on the president’s statements, I’d have to get my thesaurus. He and the Democrats have already used up the terms demagogue and un-American.
King, on March 22, 2003, according to an Associated Press story on a pro-Iraq War, pro-soldiers rally:
Republican Congressman Steve [...]

Republicans hope to hold out on health care until the fall, staving off a public option.