Peter King News Archives

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.

The discovery of an alleged homegrown terror plot in Canada sparked new calls Monday for a security fence along America's northern border and prompted a wave of U.S. media coverage questioning if Canada had become a ''gateway for terrorists.'' While White House press secretary Tony Snow expressed gratitude and ''relief'' at the success of the RCMP ...

For the major party candidates in the 23rd Congressional District race, success in November may mean keeping some old and new friends at arm's length.

Share + Oct 16, 2009 12:26 pm US/Eastern Harlem Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV may run for the House seat held by the man who took it from his father -- embattled U.S. Rep.

Putting the masterminds behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on trial in New York City is a bad idea, according to Rep.

Rep. Charlie Rangel endured one of those unflattering television moments that political opponents love when a reporter approached him earlier this week and asked how he allegedly had failed to include hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal assets on congressional disclosure forms.

Sen. John McCain is pressing President Barack Obama to give a posthumous pardon to Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight boxing champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with white women.

Rep. Peter King , the senior Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, has strongly criticized a Senate-approved provision that would force Amtrak to allow guns on board -- but some of King's colleagues fired back yesterday by introducing a counterpart to the Senate's proposal.

Rep. Steve King , wrote a letter to President Obama requesting that he fire Kevin Jennings who is currently serving as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools in the Obama Administration.

A U.S. congressman is asking NBA Commissioner David Stern why the league participated in games with a visiting Greek team that has allegedly breached contracts with former NBA players.

Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in 2003 , and a photo suspected to be Mohammed taken by the Red Cross in July of 2009.

Last week - just before the Republicans' third attempt to punish Charlie Rangel - the Harlem Democrat appeared visibly tired and thinner than usual, and he barely spoke above a whisper when a reporter approached to ask a question.

In May 2009, the FBI arrested four men who believed they were planting car bombs outside the Riverdale Temple and the Riverdale Jewish Center in New York City.

Congressman Charlie Rangel will keep his chairmanship of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, after Republicans failed to pass a resolution Wednesday to remove him from the leadership position.

Sarah Obama, wife of President Obama's paternal grandfather, read about her step-grandson's being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday in Kogelo, Kisumu, Kenya.

The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a single Republican supporter.

Senate legislation to let Amtrak train passengers put guns in checked baggage would undermine safety, two House lawmakers said today.

WASHINGTON The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a single Republican supporter.

Share + Oct 8, 2009 5:04 pm US/Eastern Reporting Marcia Kramer After facing one of the most serious terror threats since the 9-11 attacks, Department of Homeland Security officials are slashing a big chunk of anti-terror funding to New York City.

Federal agents get ready to search the apartment of Najibullah Zazi in Aurora, Colo., on Wednesday, Sept.

The National Republican Congressional Committee is urging Gen. Stanley McChrystal to put House Speaker Nancy Pelosi 'in her place' for her remarks on the Afghanistan War.

" House Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort to force Representative Charles B. Rangel from the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee and instead referred the demand to the panel already investigating the New York Democrat.

Steve King, the Republican Congressman from Iowa known for comparing illegal immigrants to stray cats, is making headlines again, this time claiming that President Obama's school safety czar, Kevin Jennings, is attempting to indoctrinate America's youth in the wicked ways of homosexuality.

Homeland Security: Provisions of the law that spared New York another 9/11 are set to expire Dec.

President Barack Obama's nominee for Labor Department solicitor, New York state Labor Commissioner M. Patricia Smith, must get past a Republican senator's objections to her record.

NEW YORK CITY a ' Half the respondents of a new poll say taxing the richest Americans by at least 50 percent is a great idea, while more than a third consider Twitter a fad that will likely fade.

The arrest last week of former coffee vendor Najibullah Zazi on charges of plotting to attack New York City gives added urgency to the city's pleas for federal funding to deter nuclear attacks, Mayor Bloomberg and area lawmakers said Sunday.

Rachel Maddow is joined by Peter Dreier to discuss the right wing smear machine's next targets.

Three arrests in three separate terror cases last week bolster the Obama administration's call to renew the most far reaching provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which give federal agents great latitude when spying on potential suspects.

Yet they also highlight a growing unease within America's Muslim community. For all their apparent success, the surveillance measures are overly intrusive, Muslim groups say, undermining the integration of an overwhelmingly law-abiding community.

"Almost everyone I know has been interviewed or knows someone has been interviewed by the FBI," says Edina Lekovic, communications director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council.