Charles Schumer

Earlier this week, news broke that Democratic New York Sen. Charles Schumer had decried recently publicized efforts by airlines to charge fliers for priority seating with family and friends. Schumer's declaration was reported far and wide ...  

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat is reacting to an Associated Press story last week detailing how families this summer are ...  

And boosting small business could pave the way to recovery. U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke to the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce yesterday to tout the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act, which he said could help the economy ...  

Sen. Charles Schumer was in Staten Island Tuesday to discuss legislation designed to save small businesses money and help them grow. NY1's Amanda Farinacci filed the following report. Ed Gomez is no stranger to the ups and downs of the economy. Gomez owns ...  

Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) has raised a new concern about the metal bristles from grill cleaning brushes, especially with the warm holiday weekends approaching. This comes after two men from New Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) has raised a new concern ...  

Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat is reacting to an Associated Press story last NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families ...  

Sen. Charles Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat does not want airlines to charge fees that would keep parents from sitting with their kids while on flights.  

There's more than a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals at stake in the Round 3 series between the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers. The U.S. senators from New York and New Jersey are wagering pizza on the outcome. "He does not want to share his real ...  

Sen. Charles Schumer wants an investigation to determine if additional federal regulations are required for the sale and safe use of metal barbecue grill brushes. Of the millions of weekly barbecue grill cleanings, there have been several ...  

Sen. Charles Schumer on Thursday responded to conservative critics who had compared his Ex-PATRIOT Act to laws imposed by the Nazis. “I know a thing or two about what Nazis did,” Schumer, a Jew, said on the Senate floor. “Some of my ...  

CITY OF NEWBURGH — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has asked President Barack Obama to host Newburgh Free Academy's solar car team at the White House after winning a global solar car competition in Texas. Twenty-eight students went to Houston as ...  

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) recently wrote to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and New York & Atlantic Railway requesting the launch of a safety investigation into reports that uncovered freight cars are dropping loose debris on MTA Long ...  

Sen. Charles Schumer is joining Mineola residents in calling for an investigation into the issue. Schumer wants the Federal Railroad Administration to require freight trains traveling through densely populated areas to cover cars carrying loose debris.  

Safety review needed for metal-bristle grill brushes, says Sen Schumer Following reports of people injured after they ingested metal bristles that had fallen off grill brushes and stuck to meat they were cooking, U.S. Sen Charles E. Schumer called on the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration to determine whether the grill brushes are safe to use. Schumer...  

You remember U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., don’t you? He was the guy who said “the American people don’t care” about the wasteful, pork-barrel spending habits of Congress. He was also the guy who called a flight attendant the “B-word” because she asked him to turn off his cellphone prior to a flight. He was also the guy who told the state of New Jersey how it should spend its own highway funds, much to the displeasure of that state’s very...