Chuck Schumer

In 2001, Chuck Schumer was a co-sponsor with Phil Gramm of a bill (the Investor and Capital Markets Fee Relief Act of 2001) that cut Wall Street fees designed to finance SEC oversight operations that had been diverted to......

Here's Obama blasting Wall Street's bonuses earlier today. We wondered in a previous item whether Sen. Schumer would be heard from on this. So far -- no. From MSNBC: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999;...

Less than a week ago, Mayor Bloomberg appeared with Sen. Schumer and House Ways and Means Chairman Rangel to announce that New York City would be getting at least $3.4 billion from the federal stimulus package, including $1.6 billion......

Our Sen. Schumer, defending the stimulus bill on the ground that a few billion of pork here and a few billion of pork there doesn't really matter in the big picture: In the full quote, Schumer says people care more......

Schumer now has a release out on money for New York. It's after the jump, with all the numbers. It says LI gets $262 million in Medicaid money, not the $292 million Schumer mentioned on the phone. But that's still......

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer issued this statement on Rep. Steve Israel's agreeing not to run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand: ???Steve Israel has once again proven what many of us who have worked with him already knew: that he is a......

The controversy-driven resignation of Herbert Teitelbaum as the executive director of the Spitzer-created state Commission on Public Integrity demonstrates for the second time in as many workdays that political (and bureaucratic) players gush the most...

The Hill, the newspaper about Congress, asked the 97 Senators who aren't running for president whether they were interested in becoming vice-president. Some, like Arlen Specter, made it simple: "Absolutely not." Sen. Schumer, however, was not so direct:...

Ordinary people, elected and unelected, behaved heroically last week. Unfortunately, it all happened hundreds of miles from Washington. In Boston, strangers gave clothes and shelter to shivering runners. They comforted injured spectators. They saved...

On the thorny issue of immigration, "this administration will not just kick the can down the road," says President Barack Obama — after almost a year and a half of kicking that can down the road. During his presidential campaign, candidate Obama...

President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...

Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is a real-life Murray Blum. Blum, played by Charles Grodin, is the president's accountant in the comedy "Dave," which I think of every time we have one of these spending dramas in Washington. In my favorite scene...