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Congressman Pete King

Representing the 2nd District of New York

In The News

Mar 12, 2010 In The News

WASHINGTON — Long before the State Dinner party crashers and the tension with her White House colleagues and the strain in her relationship with the first lady, Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her.

Mar 10, 2010 In The News

What is your favorite, or most vivid, St. Patrick's Day memory? Being Grand Marshal of the 1985 N.Y.C. St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Have you ever marched in the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade? I have, with the 69th Regiment Veterans Corps.

Mar 6, 2010 In The News

WASHINGTON - Khalid Shaikh Mohammed won't be returning to the scene of his unspeakable crime.

Feds involved in security preparations for lower Manhattan's Foley Square courthouse have been quietly ordered to cease all preparations for a 9/11 trial blocks from where the twin towers fell, the Daily News has learned.

Mar 6, 2010 In The News

WASHINGTON -- President Obama could inch closer to finding a way to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, if he moves terror trials out of New York and replaces them with military commissions, Sen. Lindsay Graham suggested yesterday.

Feb 24, 2010 In The News

NEW YORK (CBS) ¯ President Barack Obama's new health care plan really socks it to New York taxpayers and its bad news for residents of New Jersey and Connecticut, too.

Feb 23, 2010 In The News

WASHINGTON - The health care overhaul plan proposed Monday by President Barack Obama to lure Republican support ran into a quick rejection by Long Island's lone Republican representative.

Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) condemned Obama's proposal - the first he has offered - as "just a recycled version of government run health care."

Feb 23, 2010 In The News

The Justice Department's disclosure that nine of President Obama's appointees had either represented or advocated for Guantanamo detainees has touched off a firestorm of criticism.

Feb 15, 2010 In The News

Last week, a little more than 24 hours after the FBI warned senators not to disclose the sensitive information that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was cooperating with the FBI, the White House shared the information with the news media.

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