Peter King News

There would be no clapping from five New York congressmen. Over the weekend, while you were out enjoying the fall foliage, your representatives in Congress were working overtime to pass a historic health-care-reform bill.

I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.

So earlier today, Republican Congressman Steve King actually said : "All Americans have health care, every single one." What a noble sentiment.

Democrat Bill Owens was sworn into Congress on Friday with his grandchildren by his side, less than 72 hours after he won a fiercely-fought election for the 23rd Congressional District seat.

This week, House Republicans officially released their alternative health care legislation, which the Congressional Budget Offices estimates would still leave 52 million Americans uninsured by 2019.

This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," November 5, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

Conservative grass-roots activists asserted Wednesday that third-party candidate Doug Hoffman's loss in a New York special election was no setback but, rather, signaled a victory for the burgeoning political movement.

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party crowd drove the moderate from the race, but Doug Hoffman still lost the New York House seat.

I noted earlier this morning the GOP's need to purge its suicidal ACORN/WFP/SEIU alliances.

The White House, key senators and media representatives have reached a compromise on legislation to protect reporters from being forced to disclose their confidential sources in federal court.

Days after drawing anger from liberal Democrats for opposing a public option to the Senate health care bill, Sen.

Four men were arrested on Wednesday in a suspected plot to bomb a synagogue and Jewish community center in New York City and to shoot at military planes with stinger missiles, law enforcement officials said.

Sounding more like an independent than a Democrat, Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. , tells ABC News he will campaign for some Republican candidates during the 2010 midterm elections and may not seek the Democratic Senate nomination when he runs for re-election in 2012.

The male equivalent of Michele Bachmann rose up in righteous defense of the leader of Republican party, Rush Limbaugh, at his unfair treatment by the NFL in not allowing him join a group that is intent on buying the St.

If William L. Owens is elected to Congress next week, he'll have plenty of thank-you notes to send to colleagues in the House.

Technology the credit card industry uses to detect fraud could be applied to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to an expert who helped draft a House bill that calls for the use of such technology.

Rep. Anthony Weiner's office today released an internal study showing that 151 members of Congress "currently receive government-funded; government-administered single-payer health care - Medicare." Of those 151 members, 55 are Republicans who also happen to be " steadfastly opposed [to] other Americans getting the public option, like the one they ...

S.C. exonerates Tom Joyner's great uncles who were falsely accused of murder. Johnson held the prestigious heavyweight title for nearly seven years , but the toughest punch he took may have come from the nation's justice system.

Rep. Pete King endorsed GOP special-election candidate Dede Scozzafava on Monday, saying a vote for her Conservative Party opponent is tantamount to a vote for the Democrats in the close 23rd Congressional District race in New York.

The White House refused to indicate Monday whether President Barack Obama will issue a posthumous pardon for Jack Johnson, the African-American boxing champion convicted in 1913 for dating a white woman.