our "representative?"

We get many shocking press releases from the office of U.S. Representative Steve King.

"KING APPLAUDS DECISION TO GIVE AMERICANS ANOTHER CHANCE TO END BILINGUAL VOTING

Washington, D.C.— Following outrage from Members of Congress, citizen groups and constituents, the bill to renew certain controversial provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) was pulled from the U.S. House voting calendar today, giving Members more time to respond to concerns before a vote by the full House.

The bill to renew the VRA, H.R. 9, was expected to go to the full House today; however, a debate over institutionalizing bilingual voting loomed over House leadership.

U.S. Congressman Steve King (IA-05) offered an amendment to the bill, which was denied by the House Rules Committee, the body that decides which amendments are to be made in order on the House floor. King’s amendment would prevent renewal of a provision of the bill which requires localities to produce multilingual voting ballots for twenty-five additional years."
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ia05_king/PRBiligualBallots062106.html

I can see the point of trying to save money on elections and wanting voters to ... or wanting voters who understand the issues in the first place, BUT, we've recently put tons of money into making voting equipment more accessible to those who arne't competent enough to connect the lines or fill in the bubble. If a Spanish-speaking voter is concerned about the issues and wants representation, then until (if ever) English is our national language, they should have that right. To make it fair to all minorities, it should probably be qualified that people speaking a particular language have to reach a certain percentage of American citizens in a given precinct.

This is also unbelievable:

"ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE DEMANDS APOLOGY FROM REP. STEVE KING (AP)

DES MOINES, Iowa – A Washington-based Arab American public policy group is demanding an apology from an Iowa congressman for comments he made Saturday to delegates at the state Republican convention.

The Arab American Institute says Republican Steve King made disrespectful comments about a veteran White House correspondent when he discussed the death of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U-S airstrike on June seventh.

King says that al-Zarqawi is now in hell, and if there are any virgins there they probably all look like 85-year-old Helen Thomas."