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Undated: Steven Arnold King (born May 28, 1949) is an American politician and former businessman serving as a U.S. Representative from Iowa since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Iowa's 5th congressional district until 2013, when redistricting renumbered it the 4th. This district is in northwestern Iowa and includes Sioux City. He is the only Republican in Iowa's House delegation.
King is an opponent of immigration and multiculturalism, and has a long history of racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric and white-nationalist affiliations.[1][2][3] King has spoken favorably of white supremacist ideas,[4] specifically against Jews,[5] African Americans,[6] Latinos and immigrants in general,[7][8][9] and has supported European right-wing populist and far-right politicians accused of racism and Islamophobia.[10] The Washington Post described King as the "Congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism."[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_King
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May 2: Iowa Rep. Steve King nominates President Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
A group of House Republicans, including Iowa Rep. Steve King, is seeking the Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump because of his work to ease nuclear tensions with North Korea.
A historic meeting between Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un over denuclearization could be announced by week's end.
Indiana Rep. Luke Messer unveiled a letter Wednesday to members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee that was signed by 18 Republicans.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/02/iowa-rep-steve-king-nominates-president-donald-trump-nobel-peace-prize/574412002/
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January 9: U.S. Rep. Steve King, who has long courted controversy, has now courted a new opponent: a prominent Republican challenger will vie against him in 2020.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2019/01/09/sen-randy-feenstra-says-challenge-us-rep-steve-king-fourth-congressional-district-iowa-politics/2524229002/
January 10: Before Trump, Steve King Set the Agenda for the Wall and Anti-Immigrant Politics ... Years before President Trump forced a government shutdown over a border wall, triggering a momentous test of wills in Washington, Representative Steve King of Iowa took to the House floor to show off a model of a 12-foot border wall he had designed.
And long before Mr. Trump demonized immigrants — accusing Mexico of exporting criminals and calling for an end to birthright citizenship — Mr. King turned those views into talking points, with his use of misleading data about victims of undocumented immigrants and demeaning remarks about Latinos.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/steve-king-trump-immigration-wall.html
January 14: House Republican leaders removed Representative Steve King of Iowa from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees on Monday night as the party officials scrambled to appear tough on racism and contain damage from comments Mr. King made to The New York Times questioning why white supremacy is considered offensive.
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The punishment came on a day when Mr. King’s own party leadership moved against him, with the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, suggesting Mr. King find “another line of work” and Senator Mitt Romney saying he should quit. In an attempt to be proactive, the House Republicans stripped him of his committee seats in the face of multiple Democratic resolutions to censure Mr. King that are being introduced this week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-house-judiciary-committee.html
January 14: Steve King Faces Rebuke for Years of Racist Comments, Just as the GOP Doesn’t Need Him Anymore
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/steve-king-finally-faces-rebuke-for-years-of-racist-comments.html
January 15: A Timeline of Steve King’s Racist Remarks and Divisive Actions
While some Republicans suggested the Iowa congressman’s views were new to them, Mr. King has a long and documented history of denigrating racial minorities.
Representative Steve King of Iowa, who was stripped of his House committee seats on Monday night after making remarks defending white supremacy, has a long history of racist comments and insults about immigrants.
Republicans rarely rebuked him until recently, with some suggesting that Mr. King’s language and views were new to them.
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“This just popped up on Friday,” Representative Steve Scalise, the second-ranking House Republican, said on Sunday, when asked if the party would penalize Mr. King for saying, in an interview with The Times, “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”
National Republicans courted his political support in Iowa: He was a national co-chairman of Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential effort and of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ 2018 election. House leadership appointed him chairman of the subcommittee on the Constitution and civil justice. And President Trump boasted in the Oval Office that he raised more money for Mr. King than for anyone else.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/15/us/politics/steve-king-offensive-quotes.html
January 15: How Can the G.O.P. Condemn Representative Steve King but Not Donald Trump?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-can-the-gop-condemn-congressman-steve-king-but-not-donald-trump
January 20: Steve King blames 'unhinged left' for ‘white supremacy’ uproar; defends Trump, immigration views
https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/steve-king-blames-unhinged-left-for-white-supremacy-uproar-defends/article_05dc3d75-fc30-54ea-b886-8802791b8d2a.html
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January 26: Rep. Steve King gets standing ovation at first event since white supremacy comments
Constituents applauded Republican Rep. Steve King on Saturday at the Iowa congressman’s first public event since being rebuked by his House colleagues over racist comments he had made to a newspaper earlier this month.
King told the roughly 75 people who showed up for the first of 39 planned town hall meetings in his sprawling district that he doesn’t adhere to a white supremacist ideology and he repeated his assertion that he’s not racist.
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“It is stunning and astonishing to me that four words in a New York Times quote can outweigh 20-some years of public service, 20-some years of giving you my word every day,” King said. “And not one soul has stood up and said I’ve ever lied to you or misrepresented anything. Not one soul has stood up and said Steve King has ever acted in a racist fashion, that he ever discriminated against anybody.”
King has long been known for making caustic comments, especially on issues related to race and immigration. Shortly before the November election, the Washington Post reported that King met in Austria with the far-right Freedom Party, which has Nazi ties. King said the meeting was with business leaders, including one person from the Freedom Party, but the Post stood by its story.
Although King’s recent comments drew a relatively large media contingent to Saturday’s meeting, none of the constituents who were on hand said anything critical about the controversy and a couple expressed their support, telling King they think he’s doing a great job. In the few instances in which King’s history of insensitive comments and his most recent statements arose, the audience seemed supportive, and they stood twice during the gathering to applaud him.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/26/rep-steve-king-gets-standing-ovation-at-first-event-since-white-supremacy-comments/
February 21: Steve King says he has 'nothing to apologize for' after racist comments
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/21/steve-king-no-apology-racist-comments-1179706
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