(CBS News) A budget agreement reached late Friday night avoided a shutdown of the federal government when Democrats and Republicans agreed to $38.5 billion in cuts from the 2011 budget - more than half of the $61 billion Republicans had been seeking. Conservatives were not successful in their bid to defund Planned Parenthood, defund the president's health care law, or restrict the EPA.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, was one of the 28 Republicans who voted against the budget compromise.
On "The Early Show on Saturday Morning," King said Republicans held their ground as long as they could to try to get what he said was his priority: cutting off funding for the president's health care reform law.
"I've taken the stand all along, for a year, that if Republicans win the majority, we must first vote to repeal 'Obamacare,' and then use all of our leverage and every appropriations bill to cut off the funding that would be used to implement or enforce it," King told anchor Erica Hill. "Two federal courts have found it unconstitutional. The White House is delaying the Supreme Court review of this, while tens of billions are spent implementing a piece of legislation that America has rejected, and I believe the Supreme Court will also reject, and I thought we should have used our leverage in order to cut off all funding."
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