In a "breaking news" story in The Onion this morning, the satirical newspaper reported Congress took a group of touring school kids hostage in the Capitol rotunda, demanding $12 trillion by 6 p.m. or they'll shoot a kid every hour. For once, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) are cooperating to reduce the deficit. Read More
It would almost seem that the stars had finally aligned. After weeks of stalled talks and contentious meetings between House Republicans and Democrats that escalated into a public spat between Speaker John Boehner and President Obama, a bill finally made it through the House and into the Senate, where it was speedily approved Tuesday morning Read More
After a press conference on E-Z Pass fees this afternoon, Senator Chuck Schumer talked a little bit about his recent trip to China, where he met with some of the top American business leaders in the region to talk trade policy.
"We talked about currency, we met with the American Chamber of Commerce," said the Read More
Park51 developer Sharif El-Gamal, accidental protagonist of the most politicized real estate story in recent memory, sat behind the blond-wood desk in his office six floors above the lower Broadway mall, and, meaty hands clasped before him, held forth on what it takes to make it in real estate. After all, it is real Read More
Gaffes seem to be gushing as much as Gulf Coast oil. John Boehner's antsy metaphor and Joe Barton's apology to BP were heartfelt PR disasters. After his interview, General McChrystal was on his own, like a rolling stone. Last month, it was Carly Fiorina caught on camera mocking her general-election opponent Barbara Boxer for hair Read More
Wall Street's Wild West days are almost over. Tonight, by a count of 59 to 39, with four Republicans voting along with the Democratic majority, the Senate passed a 1,500-page financial reform bill. It not only includes the so-called Volcker Rule, which limits banks' proprietary trading, but will create new consumer protection, curbs on banking, federal Read More
Senator Chuck Schumer just announced that he'll sign a new letter pushing majority leader Harry Reid to allow a vote on the public option.
"I just added my name to [the] effort to pass a public option through the reconciliation process, and I wanted you to be the first to know," Mr. Schumer wrote Read More
That quiet discontent nipping at Chuck Schumer's heels is nothing compared with what Harry Reid is facing in Nevada.
Mr. Schumer has been one of Mr. Reid's most ardent supporters, and has long insisted he's not thinking about replacing Reid as majority leader, but some observers think he and Senate Whip Dick Durbin Read More
For once, Michael Steele is absolutely right: If Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Republican leader, had described Barack Obama as a “light-skinned” man “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” he absolutely would be under fierce pressure from black leaders and Democrats to step down.
But Mitch McConnell didn’t say that. Harry Reid did. Read More
This morning, Senator Chuck Schumer declared fellow senators Harry Reid, Max Baucus, and Chris Dodd the "three horsemen" of the health care bill that finally passed the Senate on the first Christmas Eve vote since the nineteenth century.
"This is an amazing accomplishment. It would be under ordinary times. It's even more amazing under extraordinary Read More
All year, the biggest fault line in the health care debate has been the public option—a proposed government-run insurance plan that Americans without access to group coverage would be eligible to sign up for.
To liberals, it has been the reason for doing health care reform, an innovative tool that will break up private insurers’ monopolies Read More
All year, the biggest fault line in the health care debate has been the public option—a proposed government-run insurance plan that Americans without access to group coverage would be eligible to sign up for.
To liberals, it has been the reason for doing health care reform, an innovative tool that will break up private insurers’ Read More
Mention Joe Lieberman's name to a Democratic activist these days and you'll probably hear some variation of the question: This is what we get for letting him keep his chairmanship? It was last November, you'll remember, that Senate Democrats opted to hand Lieberman—who had just spent nearly a year championing John McCain's White House bid Read More
Chuck Schumer continued his exuberant cheerleading for Harry Reid yesterday, in keeping with his insistence that he doesn't have designs on Mr. Reid's majority leader post. On Morning Joe, he called the Senate Majority Leader "a great, great bringer-of us-together." Then, at an afternoon news conference, Mr. Schumer called Mr. Reid "the Read More
Morning Joe may be losing its steam, but Chuck Schumer seemed well-caffeinated in a pre-dawn interview this morning, launching into long defenses of Harry Reid, health care, and Eric Holder.
The segment began with Mr. Schumer's least favorite subject: His desire (unstated, hypothetical, overwhelmingly probably) to be majority leader of the United States Read More
