Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that while incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and President-elect Donald Trump are currently in the “name-calling phase” of the political “game,” they will
Kentucky’s Sen. Rand Paul appears to be on the cusp of having the Senate and the House pass the “Audit the Fed” legislation that he and his father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), fought for to stop the Federal Reserve’s “unchecked” and “arguably unconstitutional” meddling in the free market economy.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the Democrats lost to President-elect Donald Trump because they are out of touch with America.
Ten days before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes over the executive branch, his top cabinet nominees are scheduled to appear on Capitol Hill in front of the appropriate Senate committees before upper chamber votes on whether to confirm them for federal service.
On Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a bipartisan resolution condemning United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334,which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”
Thursday at a press conference on Capitol Hill, when asked about President-elect Donald Trump calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) a “clown” in tweets about the congressional fight over the Affordable Care Act, Schumer fired back by saying it
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer against opposing President-elect Donald Trump too strongly because Schumer could face an outcome of what previous Trump opponents Jeb Bush and
“The Democrats, lead [sic] by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. “Instead of working to fix it, they do the typical political thing and BLAME.”
“We are not going to make it easy for them to pick a Supreme Court justice,” Schumer told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. “It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump would choose that would get Republican support that we [Democrats] could support.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and incoming Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are among 21 senators who have signed onto legislation that rejects the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2334, which calls Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem “illegal.”
Wednesday on Capitol Hill during a press conference after meeting with Vice President-elect Mile Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) addressed his colleague Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) saying last night he was confident if President-elect Donald Trump picks
Incoming Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says he regrets a 2013 decision by Senate Democrats, known as the “nuclear option” to decrease the number of senators needed to confirm Cabinet picks from 60 to 51 votes.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was confident if President-elect Donald Trump picks “an out-of-the-mainstream nominee” for the Supreme Court, Democrats will be able to block the nomination. Partial transcript as follows: MADDOW:
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated of President-Elect Donald Trump, “”The only way we’re going to work with him is if he moves completely in our direction
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) used his first speech as Senate Minority Leader to attack President-elect Donald Trump’s use of Twitter — repeating a theme that Democrats and the media used often during the 2016 presidential campaign, to no real effect.
Tuesday on the U.S. Senate floor, the Senate minority leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) while addressing President-elect Donlad Trump said “We Democrats will hold you accountable” because “America cannot afford a Twitter presidency.” Partial transcript as follows: Campaign themes are
Incoming Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and his fellow Democratic senators will aggressively target eight of President-elect Donald Trump’s “rigged Cabinet” picks, according to a report from the Washington Post.
Some Senate Democrats have issued scathing statements against President Barack Obama and his administration’s decision to break with longstanding tradition to veto anti-Israel resolutions, choosing, instead, to abstain from voting in a United Nations Security Council vote. The vote called for
Jewish groups have come out against the Obama administration’s decision to vote against Israel on Friday by deciding to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli construction in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
The ranking Democrat members of 16 Senate committees signed a joint statement of principles, released Thursday, regarding vetting of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominees requiring Senate confirmation, which pledged to prevent the nominees from committee votes until the FBI finished its investigations and the nominees have completed full financial disclosures.
Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) fired a group of Democratic staffers right before Christmas.
This week on ABC’s News’ podcast ,“Powerhouse Politics” with Jon Karl and Rick Klein, incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed trillion-dollar infrastructure plan “sounded good to me.” Schumer said, “President-elect Trump has called me
The incoming Senate Minority Leader told hosts of TV’s CBS This Morning that he is pleased Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) supports calls for a congressional investigation into possible Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election, but he does not want it to become political, like what happened with Benghazi.
A bipartisan group of senators are calling for a probe into whether Russia influenced the presidential election after claims that the country illegally tried to swing the result in favor of Donald Trump.
Senate Democrats, in a preview of the tactics Democrats plan to deploy against incoming president Donald J. Trump, came within two votes of shutting down the federal government in the name of the union coal miners, whose health and pension benefits lose federal support at the end of the year late Friday night.
President-elect Donald Trump pulled off a stunning upset victory on November 8. And now, right under the media’s noses, he is maneuvering for another surprise: he is making sure that conservatives, not Democrats, lead the congressional opposition. In meetings at
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has reversed course and now opposes Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) over anti-Israel, and arguably antisemitic, remarks. But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is sticking with him.
Tuesday at the Senate Democratic Legislative Agenda press conference, incoming Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said because of President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement nominating Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services, “It’s clear
Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said presumptive Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was correct to show a willingness to work with President-elect Donald Trump initially, adding that it would be a better strategy than
On Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” newly elected Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said the Senate Democrats are not going to help President-elect Donald Trump “build his wall.” When asked where Democrats they should oppose Trump, Schumer
The opposition is rising against Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison’s bid to become the next chairman of the Democrat National Committee. On November 14, Ellison, who converted to Islam when he was a college student and is the first Muslim elected
Friday in a preview clip of an interview for Sunday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Meet The Press,” newly elected Minority Leader of the U.S. Senate Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after first discussing the vetting process for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) was able to garner another 35 endorsements in his bid to become the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee on Friday, which included support from 10 House members — four from California — and Sen. Tammy Duckworth.
As violence against Donald Trump supporters continues, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) is blaming Donald Trump, while other Democratic leaders and the media remain silent and refuse to condemn the attacks.
Democrats replaced their departing leader with Sen. Chuck Schumer, meaning the New Yorker will be Washington’s most powerful Democrat as the party confronts a Republican-dominated government.
Wednesday morning, after being elected Democratic minority leader of the Senate to replace retiring Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV.) Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said President Trump can “expect a strong and tough fight,” on issues that the Democratic disagree with. Schumer
The 2016 election cycle brought a continuation of the decimation of the Democrat Party in the era of Obama, with Democrats losing ground all across the nation, from Washington D.C. to state and county offices.
About 40 people have occupied Sen. Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Capitol Hill office to protest his ties to Wall Street as he prepares to lead Senate Democrats in the 115th meeting of Congress, the Associated Press reported.
“Without the media, Clinton wouldn’t have a chance,” states the ad. “End the media’s corrupt collusion with extremist liberals who silence dissent and persecute religious believers.”
“I regret deeply that the Senate has not done its job and they have not permitted a vote on” Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination, Hillary Clinton charged during Sunday’s debate in St. Louis against Donald Trump. Not holding a vote to ensure “the full compliment of nine Supreme Court justices” is a “dereliction of duty,” she said.
