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I am a big Peter King fan. When I worked for the House Republican leadership, I was a fellow traveler with him when it came to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. I agreed with him on engagement with Sinn Fein and Gerry Adams, and I worked with him on many things Irish, particularly when I worked for Speaker Hastert.

King, a former boxer when he was at Notre Dame Law School, can be a pugnacious guy. He is a brawler. He fights hard for his constituents. And he is protective of them. When he ascended to the top of the Homeland Security Committee, you just knew he was going to do everything to go after those people who have threatened his constituents in the past.

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