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Rep. Peter King said Tuesday he plans to put the House Homeland Security Committee that he now chairs on the map - then got into a dispute with the first Muslim in Congress.
With the largely Democratic New York delegation sidelined in the new GOP-controlled House, King (R-Seaford) is now the state's senior Republican and its only committee chair, giving him a key role in representing New York interests in Washington.
King said his chief focus will be homeland security and he already has made a splash by announcing a hearing for next month on "the radicalization of the Muslim community" in the United States.