King wants 'better obstructionists'

Rep. Steve King says the Republican Party needs to be “better obstructionists.”

“This country wouldn’t be in this angst that it’s in today if we had been better obstructionists when they tried to jam Obamacare at us,” the Iowa Republican said on CNN’s “New Day” on Friday.


King said that “stopping bad ideas” is his job, so long as Democrats are in control of the White House and Senate.

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He said he will return to moving legislation through Congress when Republicans are back in charge. He said that if a bill extending veterans’ benefits comes to the House, he will come down on the side of the veterans.

“I have always opposed playing politics with our veterans,” he said. “We’ve owed them to follow through on every commitment that we have made and they should never have to wonder if the United States Congress is going to stand with them. We must do so and I will weigh in to make sure that that happens.”

“Republicans need to be the conscience of the spending Democrats,” he said.

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