Mr. King , the New York Republican who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee , confirmed Friday that a few days after he first threatened legislation to hold up the port deal , the Pentagon informed him that it could not provide an aircraft for his planned March Congressional delegation to Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East .
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