Chuck Schumer

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...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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...  

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 ...  

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 ...  

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...