Two key Democrats in the U.S. Senate say Steve King, Iowa’s Republican congressman, is to blame for the impasse in the nation’s capital over immigration reform. The Senate has passed what was billed as “comprehensive immigration reform” last year and New York Senator Chuck Schumer says King is the main Republican road block to getting the bill through the House.
King says he’s “flattered” to get credit for blocking the “amnesty agenda” Democrats are pushing.
King says the two Democratic leaders in the senate are trying to goad House Republican leaders like House Speaker John Boehner (BAY-ner) into taking action.
King says he’s fighting to preserve the rule of law. If immigration reform passes Congress this summer, King says Republicans will be a fractured party heading into the fall elections.
