and paul woodstone's support came from my district. and the vice president walter mondale is from.nd he lost his beloved wife joan recently. so it is a remarkable place. >> your role on capital hill, you are a co-leader of the progressive caucus? >> and one of the five reps that whip hoyer relies on to count the vote. i am on the steering and policy committee and the financial service committee. i am a proud member of the democratic caucus. >> you are a new congressman when you talk about colleagues serving decades. why write the become now? >> after peter king, my colleague from new york, decided that he was going to use his place as the chair of the homeland security division, to talk about the violence in muslim, and i went to him and said i don't mind you talking about violent muslim radicals. but i ask you to not only focus on muslims. there are a lot of national security threats in the homeland. and he had no, i am going to do it the way i am going to do. but i will let you testify. and i said okay. and this was the decision that was causing controversy on my part because i w