Sunday, February 27, 2011

Rep. Steve King: Cut DOJ Budget Over Obama's DOMA Decision

ABC News’ Devin Dwyer reports: Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King says he wants to penalize the Obama administration for its decision to drop a legal defense of the Defense of Marriage Act with fresh budget cuts for the Department of Justice. “We have the authority to do a few things, and one of them is to control the budget,” King said in an interview with ABC News from Frankfurt, Germany, where he has been attending trade meetings this week. [Snip] “The resources that they would be using to defend the DOMA law in court are not necessary to appropriate to them,"...

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