Honorable Steve King
United States Representative, Iowa, Republican
Representative King, of the Fifth District of Iowa, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He served in the Iowa Senate from 1996 to 2002. He sits on the Agriculture Committee, the Small Business Committee, and the Judiciary Committee. The following is from the January 18, 2007, House floor debate on H.R. 6, the CLEAN Energy Act of 2007. I rise in opposition to H.R. 6 for a whole series of reasons. I, for one, don’t object to profits that go into companies like Exxon, Chevron, Shell — companies that take their profits and reinvest them…