Steve Israel

Even though her district sits well to his east, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola) has made her preference known for New York City mayor: Michael Bloomberg, the Republican candidate, whose clear plan is to once again use his personal fortune......

Asked if she???s gotten this far on skill or luck, Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, left, turns the question to why she believes Gov. David A. Paterson selected her for her current job. She raises the matter of gender. ???What......

Rep. Steve Israel tells Capital 9 News in Albany that he's been speaking with Rep. Carolyn Maloney, right, about the prospect of a primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and holds out the prospect that he could support the......

Democratic labor activist Jonathan Tasini, who ran in a primary against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006, plans Thursday to announce a challenge to Clinton???s successor, Kirsten Gillibrand. ???I believe in primaries,??? Tasini, 53, said yesterday...

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola), who has been a driving force behind finding a Democrat to challenge appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York's 2010 Democratic primary, has ruled out a run for the Senate, her press aide Raymond Zaccaro......

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan), who is weighing a challenge to appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in New York's 2010 Democratic primary, received a telephone call from Vice President Joe Biden this week. But a source close to Maloney said Biden did.......

No one in the New York congressional delegation is more enthusiastic about new ???social media??? tools such as Twitter and YouTube than Rep. Steve Israel, the former PR man turned five-term Democratic congressman from Huntington. Just last Tuesday, he...

With Rep. Steve Israel out of the way, Jon Cooper is ramping up his exploration of a 2010 Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand with a new Website that he unveiled today. You can link to it here. The......

Which was the most fevered lunge for self-promotion by a power player? 1. Suffolk Legis. Dan Losquadro (R-Shoreham) agreeing to go on ???The Daily Show??? and appearing on Fox Business News to tout the sure-to-lose Long Island secession plan proposal........

Chuck Schumer's spokesman tells us that he's going to oppose the current version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act legislation, which immunizes telcom companies for past implementation of Bush's requests and expands the government's capacity to...

The controversial legislation expanding the president's authority to surveil calls and emails without court approval and immunizing telcom providers from lawsuits over past compliance with Bush's requests came up for a cloture vote in the Senate last...

Nassau Comptroller Howard Weitzman and Rep. Steve Israel, formerly for Hillary, are pitching in on a new Jewish outreach effort for Obama -- Obama Jewish Community Leadership Committee of Metropolitan New York. Or, maybe you prefer the catchy acronym --.....