Since being removed from all of his committees in the United States House of Representatives, Iowa’s Fourth Congressional District Representative Steve King has introduced 22 bills.

Two bills that King has put as his top priorities are a fetal heartbeat bill and English as the official language bill. King is hoping to get the fetal heartbeat bill passed through the House this year. The legislation would not allow a woman to have an abortion when a heartbeat is detected in the fetus. King says last year he was able to get 174 co-sponsors to sign onto the bill and even helped to get a similar bill passed in the Iowa House last year, which was struck down in the courts earlier this year as being unconstitutional.

“We’ve got a real tug-of-war going on in this country on the most profound moral question of our time. But if my heartbeat legislation passes Congress and is signed into law, which I’m confident that President (Donald) Trump would sign it, then that means it’s a blanket national prohibition on aborting babies with a heartbeat.”

As for the English as the official language bill, King says it is an emotional issue, just like it was when he passed the same legislation in the Iowa Senate. King points out President Trump has been pushing for the bill to be passed through Congress. King thinks he could also get Trump to rescind executive order 13166 that relates to the bill.

“Which directs the executive branch of government and all other departments and divisions to facilitate interpreters in essentially every communication with people in this country. And that costs billions and billions of dollars to do that. We need to have a common language in America. We need to have incentives for people to speak that common language and communicate in it.”

However, King believes no matter what bill he brings to the House floor, it doesn’t have a great chance of passing, due to Democrats having control of the House.