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Senator Charles Schumer will be the featured guest and keynote speaker at the next Queens Courier Power Networking Breakfast. The breakfast will be on Friday, June 8 at the Water’s Edge Restaurant in Long Island City, just across the East River and ...  

Now, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer are asking for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to make disaster funding available to farmers whose crops are left in ruin. Gillibrand and Schumer are requesting that the USDA Secretary declare 34 New ...  

Via The Hill:  Schumer calls for federal review of grill brush safety, possible recall Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review whether metal grill brushes are safe for consumer use, after reports that some metal bristles broke off the brush [...]  

While other politicians are just noting Memorial Day by honoring active, retired and late members of military, Senator Chuck Schumer is also worried for an important constituency: Those who love to grill food during these warm weather months. Which is a nicely complements one of his other efforts—keeping microbrews cheap. [ more › ]  

NEW YORK — 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 ...  

Just in time for the summer travel season, it looks like the government is stepping in to help out all those families heading off to the beach, to Grandma’s and to Disney World. Senator Chuck Schumer—he’s a Democrat from New York—isn’t really the biggest fan of airline fees and surcharges, so he’s voicing his concern and displeasure. He’s especially peeved about the airlines offering premium seats for a fee, and how this might force families...  

"A parent should not have to pay a premium to supervise and protect their child on an airplane." — From a statement Schumer sent the airline trade group, protesting additional fees for window and aisle seats. Because, really, who wants to sit next to someone else's kid on an airplane? [AP] Read more posts by Andre Tartar Filed Under: chuck schumer ,just ask chuck schumer...  

NEW YORK -- 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 going ...  

NEW YORK - 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 going to find it ...  

Last week, one of its leaders, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), introduced legislation to ... founder Eduardo Saverin recently gave up his U.S. citizenship and moved to low-tax Singapore. Saverin, who was born in Brazil, immigrated to America ...  

Before you pry the last bits of today's feast off the grill, you'll want to hear what Senator Chuck Schumer has to say about barbecue accoutrement. He sent out a press release today with the headline, “SCHUMER: CLEANING YOUR BARBECUE GRILL WITH A METAL BRUSH THIS SUMMER COULD HAVE SERIOUS HEALTH CONSEQUENCES; CALLS FOR SAFETY REVIEW TO DETERMINE WHETHER METAL BRISTLE GRILL BRUSHES ARE SAFE FOR CONSUMER USE.” In response to recent incidents...  

Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) hit back Thursday. He said it was appalling to make such a comparison, and appalling that conservatives would turn a "tax dodger" into a "hero." Schumer and Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) offered legislation last week that would ...  

WASHINGTON -- A proposal to require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee has languished in Congress since July.  

Earlier this week, I wrote about Kirsten Gillibrand's newfound role as a valued endorser of local Democratic candidates and officials. This morning comes a report that her colleagues in the Senate might be trying to recruit her to boost them too.  

NEW YORK — Sen. Chuck Schumer is urging airlines to allow families with young children to sit together without paying extra. The New York Democrat is reacting to a story last week detailing how families this summer are going to find it harder to sit ...  

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...  

It was a hot and sunny Monday here in central New York -- a great day for grilling hot dogs and hamburgers. But for U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., it was a perfect moment to call for a review of metal grill brushes. Schumer sent a letter to the Consumer ...  

According to a report from Elise Viebeck of The Hill, almost all of the over thirty lawsuits Catholic groups filed against the Obama Administration yesterday referred to a 1993 law the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. which Congress passed to allow the ...  

On Friday, May 18, I appeared on a couple of cable news shows to discuss the pressing news of the day. For MSNBC, that was whether a reportedly proposed (then withdrawn) SuperPAC political ad criticizing President Barack Obama's past associations with Rev. Jeremiah Wright represented a new low for politics and whether the controversy was either bad or terrible for presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney: For Fox Business News...  

Senator Chuck Schumer has taken many a courageous stand against issues like arsenic in apple juice and OnStar snooping, but his defense of the microbreweries in the face of a recent elimination of a tax exemption in New York ranks among his most noble. “It would be a great thing for our state to have this industry grow, but this court decision could clobber them,” Schumer said at an appearance at the East Village Tavern. Too bad he didn't...  

Chuck Schumer unveiled the “Ex-Patriot Act” a day before Facebook goes public Friday, a much-anticipated IPO that stands to make the already loaded Eduardo ... 2,000 other fat cats who have given up their U.S. citizenship to avoid paying ...  

As you may have heard, earlier this afternoon, Facebook priced its initial public offering at $38/share, valuing co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s stake at approximately $2.9 billion. Since Saverin conveniently renounced his US citizenship last week, he will avoid paying millions in capital gains taxes and hang on to an estimated $67-$100 million that would have otherwise gone to the government, news that did not sit right with Chuck Schumer. Did...  

KING: You may not be as familiar with Eduardo Saverin unless youre a Facebook junkie or saw the movie, "The Social Network." Saverin is a co-founder, and his stake could be worth some $3 billion. Heres where it gets tricky. He renounced his U.S. citizenship last year and now lives in Singapore. Two U.S. senators say he knew this big payday was coming, and its all a calculated tax cheat. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: This...  

The key to overturning the Obamacare contraception mandate may be a law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act introduced in 1993 by then-Representative Chuck Schumer. Ironically, now-Senator Schumer attacked Republicans who used the ...  

Senator Chuck Schumer this morning called on the House to pass a bill called the "Violence Against Women Act," which he says literally saves women's lives. A measure to reauthorize the act was approved by the Senate on Thursday with broad bipartisan ...  

Senator Chuck Schumer responded to news of the death of Beastie Boys rapper Adam “MCA” Yauch by posting a rhyming eulogy on Twitter ... hop icons LL Cool J and DJ Kool Herc during a speech in February. It’s also interesting to see ...  

After an aggressive rebuke from Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Thursday, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist told TPM that he never actually compared the senator's legislation to actions taken by the Nazis. "My criticism of our friend Mr. Schumer was that his...  

Sen. Chuck Schumer issued a fiery rebuke Thursday to conservatives who have criticized his legislation, inspired by Facebook's Eduardo Saverin, aimed at cracking down on Americans who renounce their citizenship to duck taxes. The New York Democrat took to the...  

Senator Chuck Schumer prodded FBI Director Robert Mueller on his agency's rocky relationship with the NYPD, during a Judiciary Committee hearing on FBI oversight yesterday. The turf battle between the two agencies has emerged into public view in recent ...  

It’s enough to make you cry in your craft brew. The price of suds from local brewers could explode in New York after a state court nixed a tax exemption, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday.  

IT’S ENOUGH to make you cry in your craft brew. The price of suds from local brewers could explode in New York after a state court nixed a tax exemption, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday. “It would be a great thing for our state to ...  

The president of Americans for Tax Reform compared Chuck Schumer's tax-dodger bill to Nazi policies.  

… says my friend Left Coast Rebel in a long overdue rant. We all know about how Boehner has folded to Obama and Reid at every opportunity on spending and debt. But the latest outrage is that Boehner has just signaled support for Chuck Schumer’s Citizenship Equals Slavery Act.  The U.S. is already the only major country that taxes its citizens’ income even when they don’t live or work in the country.  Schumer and Boehner want to take this even...  

The federal government is holding up the final approval for Kaufman Astoria Studios to build an architecturally flashy movie lot gate -- a la Hollywood -- at 36th Street and 35th Avenue in Astoria, Queens.  

Doug Ross @ Journal: You Lying Sack of Schumer “Our founding fathers gave Congress plenary power over immigration law,” Schumer said. “The Supreme Court has consistently interpreted the naturalization language in Article I to mean that the establishment of the … Continue reading →  

Facebook Inc. co-founder Eduardo Saverin responded to charges by U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey who accused him of tax evasion by living in Singapore. Schumer, New York’s senior senator, and Casey, D-Pa., introduced legislation May 17 that would prevent executives like Saverin from avoiding taxes by giving up their U.S. citizenship Saverin said it was his personal decision to move to Singapore and that he is paying hundreds of...  

The Issue: Sen. Schumer’s plan to punish Americans who renounce their citizenship for tax purposes. Leave it to Sen. Chuck Schumer, the politician who wants to reach across the oceans to tax people who are no longer US citizens (“Schumer’s Shakedown ...  

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin becomes a billionaire today, and Chuck Schumer is seething. Saverin, you see, objects to the staggering tax bills he would’ve incurred after today’s record-setting Facebook IPO — and so he decamped to Singapore and renounced his US citizenship. Which is rational, if impolitic. And which...  

Political, civic and business leaders gathered at the Pfizer Inc. campus Wednesday in a push to keep biotechnology at the 100-year-old facility. The pharmaceutical plant at North Middletown Road is for sale and there are concerns it could be razed or redeveloped into housing.  

Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Harvard grad, communicates at a ninth-grade level, the analysis found, but that was okay with spokesman Brian Fallon, who said Schumer "focuses on bread-and-butter issues and talks about them in plainspoken terms.  

NatureBlogs: Is Chuck Schumer going to blunt US cannabinoid research? http://t.co/l5z1WbJD cc @NatureMedicine  

Senator Chuck Schumer is calling for pedestrian access when a rail bridge between Albany and Rensselaer is replaced.  

Senator Chuck Schumer met with Mayor Tom Richards and University of Rochester President Joel Seligman over a Garbage Plate Saturday to talk about plans to build Collegetown in Brighton. Schumer is trying to secure a low-interest $20 million federal loan ...  

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) are renewing a push to make the lives of reporters and others interested in tracking political fundraising a little easier by requiring Senate campaigns to keep electronic fundraising records.  

Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) are renewing a push to make the lives of reporters and others interested in tracking political fundraising a little easier by requiring Senate campaigns to keep electronic fundraising records.  

Because Democratic Senators can’t/won’t pass a budget, (and Mz. Wasserman Schultz doesn’t understand the process), Chuck Schumer says that in lieu of the Arizona immigration law getting upheld in the Supreme Court, he’s going to ...  

Rochester/Albany/Washington D.C. - Senator Chuck Schumer has recommended Monroe County Judge Frank Geraci to President Obama to serve on the US District Court for Western New York. Schumer's previous nomination for the court, former District Attorney Mike ...  

This, from New York's senior senator, is frighteningly silly:"Schumer: Citizens United Worse than Racial Segregation Case Plessy v Ferguson."Good God.So what is it that has gotten this crazy old coot so off-the-deep-end?The Supreme Court ruled - in "Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee" -  that corporations - in so many words - had the same free speech rights as do individuals.Oh.  The.  Horror.Here's Schumer's problem.  He doesn't...  

If the Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration enforcement law, Sen. Charles Schumer, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, says he will introduce legislation that bars all states from enforcing their own immigration laws. Republican members boycotted the subcommittee hearing where the Democratic senator from New York made the announcement Tuesday morning. Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona called it...  

We wrote about Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, defecting from the US last week ("The Great Defection From The West"). Apparently we weren't the only ones to notice. Today, Lyin' Chuck Schumer held a news conference to unveil the "Ex-PATRIOT ...  

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is following in the footsteps - or more accurately, the flight path - of New York's senior senator from Brooklyn. Gillibrand and Sen. Chuck Schumer together billed taxpayers for $449,433 in chartered aircraft fees to travel around New York for the 12 months ending Sept. 30.  

We wrote about Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, defecting from the US last week (“The Great Defection From The West“).  Apparently we weren’t the only ones to notice. Today, Lyin’ Chuck Schumer held a news conference to unveil the “Ex ...  

Saverin and his money have again evaded capture. The tech billionaire and his billions ... But if Saverin has seceded from the world Chuck Schumer helped create, Schumer, an online exhibitionist who still posts his musings and mug for all ...  

KINGSTON — A frost fast on the heels of a sultry early spring damaged area fruit crops bad enough to warrant federal help, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer. Schumer has asked U.S. secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsak to start the disaster ...  

What other name is there for Schumer and Casey?  Should people be required to be Americans just so they can pay higher taxes?Two top senators went after Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin Thursday over his decision to renounce U.S. citizenship, unveiling a proposal they claim would bar him -- or anyone -- from de-friending the United States in order to avoid taxes.Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who unveiled the proposal alongside Sen. Bob...  

But Schumer said during the hearing that the fact most Arizona officials who support the law, including Gov. Jan Brewer, declined to attend the hearing. But Schumer noted during the hearing that most Arizona officials who support the law ...  

We recently asked US Senator Chuck Schumer his thoughts on the tax rate. Chuck Schumer says, "There's a proposal for corporate tax reform. On one hand to close some of the loopholes and on the other hand to lower the rate. That's something that I think ...  

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer (NY) and Bob Casey (Pa.) will take aim at Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin Thursday when they introduce legislation designed to tax expatriates even after they have left the country. Saverin, who stands to ...  

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Bob Casey (Pa.) will take aim at Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin Thursday when they introduce legislation designed to tax expatriates even after they have left the country. Saverin, who stands to ...  

Senator Chuck Schumer says the VA should try EFT to help Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  

Chuck Schumer praised junior Sen ... released this morning that found Gillibrand continues to lead her three GOP opponents – Rep. Bob Turner, Wendy Long and Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos – by more than 30 percentage points.  

WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is following in the footsteps — or more accurately, the flight path — of New York’s senior senator from Brooklyn. Gillibrand and Sen. Chuck Schumer together billed taxpayers for $449,433 in chartered ...  

Rochester, N.Y. - Senator Chuck Schumer is asking the Department of Labor to reconsider its plan to cut funding for a local program that helps veterans find jobs. "We can not let this program die," Sen. Schumer said at the Veterans Outreach Center Tuesday ...  

The day before the Supreme Court hears arguments over Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants, Senator Chuck Schumer called the law unconstitutional and wants to push a federal bill to invalidate it, if the high court upholds the law. (April 24)  

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is in Dallas Thursday to headline a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Chuck Schumer, D-NY, is also featured at the luncheon that will be held at the Highland Park home of Dallas lawyer ...  

The winner won’t be known until November, but planning the presidential inaugural shindig started Wednesday --  and senior Sen. Chuck Schumer was elected to head up the joint committee that organizes the ceremonies at the Capitol come January 21, 20...  

If you’re a Capitol Hill press secretary you may want to think long and hard before calling up The Daily Caller and giving them headline advice. The headline in question: “McCain fingers Schumer as media whore for ‘grandstanding’ on Ariz. immigration law.” Brian Fallon, spokesman to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), a well-known press whore who practically invented the phrase press whore, called up and asked, “Is whore really a word that The Daily...  

If congress doesn't act, the interest rate for Stafford loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer says that's unacceptable.  

On Monday's CBS This Morning host Charlie Rose tossed Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) a softball on whether he believes higher taxes on millionaires would create jobs, but the senator only chose to address the second part of the question on income ...  

The General Services Administration has vowed to sign a long-delayed lease at 1 World Trade Center by the summer, Sen. Chuck Schumer told us last night. “I spoke to [GSA acting administrator] Daniel Tangherlini and he said, ‘We’ll get it done by summer,’ ” Schumer said. Schumer added, “We called...  

On NBC's Meet the Press, Rick Santorum said that anyone who didn't endorse him was making a mistake, and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Romney's Latino problem could cost him the election. Read the full transcript here. Want to stay ahead of ...  

Class traitor Warren Buffett says  the rich should pay more. The House of Representatives will kill it, but the "Buffett Rule" will get a vote in the Senate on "tax day," April 15, according to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). The so-called rule is named after billionaire Warren Buffett because he has said the mega-wealthy should pay more taxes. “You should, if you are very wealthy, God bless you, you made a lot of money, we love you in America...  

The state’s two US senators are busy doling out endorsements today, with both Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand annointing fellow Democrats running in potentially difficult races. Schumer, as reported yesterday by City & State, is lending his...  

WASHINGTON -- Democrats predicted on Thursday that the GOP would cave on the so-called Buffett Rule and pass a tax hike targeted at people who earn more than $1 million a year. The rule, named after billionaire Warren Buffett because he pays a ...  

By:  Matt Cover Sen. Chuck Schumer Stated Buckley V. Valeo Case Started An Awful Road Where The Average Citizen Loses Influence read more  

ALBANY — Congress has chosen U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York to be chairman of the presidential inauguration next year, regardless of which candidate wins. The Democrat was chosen by congressional leaders for what is seen as a coveted ...  

"I am honored to have been selected as the Chairman of the festivities and look forward to organizing a ceremony that will showcase ... Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn). From the House side are Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Majority ...  

ALBANY — Congress has chosen U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York to be chairman of the presidential inauguration next year, regardless of which candidate wins.  

He coasted to reelection in 1992. However, he barely defeated 1st District Congressman John Ensign in 1998 in the midst of a statewide Republican sweep. In 2004, Reid won reelection with 61 percent of the vote, gaining the endorsement of several Republicans.  

Mayor Michael Bloomberg weighed in on the Trayvon Martin tragedy Monday, once again putting the blame for gun violence on lawmakers in Washington. "The gun lobby is writing our nation's gun laws" he said, according to Capital New York.  

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., doesn't foresee recent drop in minority voter registration hurting the president's reelect campaign.  

Rahm Emmanuel, former Chief of Staff to the Obama White House, famously subscribed to the philosophy of never letting a good crisis to waste. Rarely has that mantra rang more true than the politicization of the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.New York Senator Chuck Schumer has demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder examine Florida Statutes Section 776.012, which is the state's "Stand Your Ground" law. Schumer is making the...  

VoiceStreet: Finally, some good legislative news for the ladies; Sen. Chuck Schumer trying to push a "Violence Against Women Act:" http://t.co/MUFPxmZr InsideCityHall: Schumer Urges House To Pass Domestic Violence Bill http://t.co/dVJtYfN0 ...  

Bush was extremely unpopular, Chuck Schumer guided six Democratic Senate candidates ... Jon Tester in Montana, Sherrod Brown in Ohio, Sheldon Whitehouse in Rhode Island, and Jim Webb in Virginia—Webb has declined to seek re-election in Virginia, and ...  

Click here to view this media Media darling Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for spending too much time in front of the television cameras. In a Wednesday interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, the Arizona senator accused Schumer of holding hearings on Arizona's controversial immigration law just to get attention from the media. "I have never seen Sen. Schumer address any issue unless it was political in...  

After yesterday's report that airport and airline staff are allegedly stealing more than 200 bags each day at JFK International, Senator Chuck Schumer has come up with a possible solution: Put undercover FAA agents in the bellies of those jets. "I think there should be some undercover agents in the belly of the plane," Sen. Schumer said. "They're probably less able to be caught, less able to be seen, but the answer to that would be having...  

In 2006, by which time George W. Bush was extremely unpopular, Chuck Schumer guided six Democratic Senate candidates to victory over Republican incumbents as his party took control of the Senate. Now his party has to defend them.  

Rochester, N.Y.- Sen. Chuck Schumer will be in Rochester Saturday to announce his campaign to secure federal assistance for the U of R’s College Town project.  

Sen. Chuck Schumer (Jason Reed/Reuters) Sen. Chuck Schumer, who heads up the Senate Democrats' political messaging, promised an intense focus by Democrats on tax fairness, on keeping the Buffett Rule an issue from now until the election. He wasn't kidding. Congressional Democrats and the White House plan to target Republican senators in 13 states next week, in an effort to pressure them to vote for the “Buffett Rule” tax on millionaires, a...  

Interest rates on federally subsidized Stafford Loans are set to increase this summer, and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer says, that's just not fair.  

A day before Arizona’s immigration law heads to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) sparred Tuesday with one of the authors of the controversial statute. At a Senate Judiciary immigration subcommittee hearing that Republicans dismissed as ...  

Media darling Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for spending too much time in front of the television cameras. In a Wednesday interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, the Arizona senator accused Schumer of ...  

Listen, Eduardo Saverin, you may have co-founded Facebook and you may have renounced your U.S. citizenship in anticipation of tomorrow's big IPO day, but there's something you're not familiar with: The wrath of Senator Chuck Schumer. Chuck and Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania are looking into ways to bar tax dodgers like Saverin. Schumer said today, "Saverin has turned his back on the country that welcomed him and kept him safe, educated...  

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain defended his state’s tough immigration law and blasted New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer for grandstanding on the issue Tuesday. “Well my position is it is a classic Schumer grandstanding use of his ...  

Sen. Chuck Schumer wants the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on tricksters who secretly charge users after sending unsolicited texts containing jokes or sports scores. Reading messages from so-called “crammers” can lead customers to be charged about $10 a month.  

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is following in the footsteps -- or more accurately, the flight path -- of New York's senior senator from Brooklyn. Gillibrand and Sen. Chuck Schumer together billed taxpayers for $449,433 in chartered aircraft fees to ...  

The chief orchestrator of the 2013 presidential inauguration ceremony will be a New York senator who has a reputation for knowing how to stage public events and make them media friendly. Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer received unanimous support Wednesday from members of the 2013 Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies to chair their panel. Republican [...]  

WASHINGTON -- Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Bob Casey (Pa.) took aim at Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin Thursday when they introduced legislation designed to tax expatriates even after they have left the country. Saverin, who stands to make $4 billion from Facebook's expected IPO on Friday, announced...  

But that's what will happen if nothing is done," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D) New York. It will affect any new loans students take out. Both Senator Schumer and students say rates need to stay low to make college possible. "When students are taking out ...  

Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Daily News ... Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports legalizing marijuana, described the Schumer bill as ”the old knee-jerk criminalize ...  

Chuck Schumer announce on campus his support for a bill to maintain interest rates on student loans at 3.4 percent. The measure was introduced by a fellow Democrat, Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island. If the bill to extend the lower amount for a year fails ...  

New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said on Sunday the entire social safety net could be yanked out from under Americans if the Supreme Court overturns the new health care law. The case argued before the court last week rests on whether the law requiring health ...  

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has added an important responsibility to his list of duties: Chairing the committee tasked with organizing the 2013 presidential inauguration ceremony. Schumer announced Wednesday that he has been elected chairman of the ...  

HIGHLAND FALLS — Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have asked their fellow senators to keep funding a federal aid program that reimburses the Highland Falls school district for a big chunk of untaxable land. President Obama’s ...  

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, who cited our coverage last week of two such incidents, was joined by Chuck Bell ...  

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is ripping conservatives for their response to legislation he co-sponsored that would punish those who renounce their citizenship to avoid paying taxes. The bill was introduced after Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin gave up his American citizenship right before he was expected to earn billions from the company’s much-anticipated IPO. The “Ex-Patriot Act” would bar people like Saverin from returning to the U.S...  

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his American citizenship in a bid to avoid up to $67 million in taxes on the billions he’s expected to make when the company goes public. Democratic U.S. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey have introduced a bill to punish such ex-citizens with heavy taxes and bar them from ever re-entering the United States. —ARK ABC News: At a news conference this morning, Sens. Schumer and Bob Casey ... will...  

Like his intellectual idol Adolf Hitler, Sen. Chuck "the Schmuck" Schumer wants to embellish the already existing Nazi-like Expatriation Tax (actually, the U.S. tax is much worse than the Nazis') that is imposed on all U.S. citizens who renounce their citizenship who have a net worth of $2 million dollars or more. The name for [...]  

At a press conference in Washington this morning, Sen. Chuck Schumer continued his crusade against Facebook billionaire Eduardo Saverin, who moved to Singapore and reduced his tax bill on the value of his shares. Schumer accused Saverin, who renounced his ...  

Chuck Schumer wants the US to "de-friend" Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. "This tax avoidance scheme is outrageous. Saverin has turned his back on the country that kept him safe, educated him, and helped him become a billionaire," Schumer ...  

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Arizona Senator John McCain is blasting President Obama and is blasting New York Senator Chuck Schumer for completely ... D.C., is between Senator Schumer and a television camera. That holds true today.  

30, and Schumer's legislation, which he introduced with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), would extend these programs for one additional year. In Western New York, four hospitals count on the Low Volume Hospital Program for their stability and ability to ...  

which he introduced with Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), would extend these programs for one additional year. In the Southern Tier, 4 hospitals rely on the Medicare-Dependent Hospital Program, and 4 hospitals count on the Low Volume Hospital Program for ...  

Friday afternoon, I posted a diary ( the link to which  appears at the end of this one) wondering if Kagan would break with centuries of tradition, and leak to the WH the result of the justices’ vote on the Obamacare debate, before it is ...  

Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 2 Democrat, brushed away concerns that the tough questioning of the health care law from the U.S. Supreme Court was a sign the justices would strike the law down.