In Jeffrey Toobin's profile of Chuck Schumer in last week's New Yorker (subscription only), the senior U.S. senator from New York, an anti-"anti-business liberal," says his only major asset is his Park Slope apartment.
The story goes that in 1982, when Mr. Schumer was a state congressman, he and his wife, CUNY vice chancellor Read More
In case you haven't had a nice daily dose of rigorously bone-chilling financial news this afternoon, Eric Lichtblau's Ex-Regulators Get Set to Lobby on New Financial Rules will do the trick. The Pulitzer winner found nearly 150 newly registered lobbyists who used to work for the government's financial agencies, but who are now being Read More
Birds were chirping and the sky over Washington was the color of blueberry taffy before Tuesday’s long-awaited Goldman Sachs hearing.
It was a pretty, harmless morning. The first floor of the Dirksen Senate office building was quiet while rows of reporters set up. A handsome couple from the Financial Times kept an upside-down bottle of hand Read More
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.
Need a movie to keep Read More
ALBANY—Attorney General Andrew Cuomo ducked repeated questions about whether he's interested in taking Hillary Clinton's U.S. Senate seat.
"I have a job, I'm the attorney general of the State of New York, I have my hands full doing it, I enjoy doing it," he said after announcing proposals to reduce the size of local Read More
ALBANY—David Paterson said he would not appoint himself to the Senate should Hillary Clinton resign her seat to take an Obama cabinet post.
"I'm not going to speculate on the speculation on that situation, but what is not under speculation is that I am the governor of the state of New York, and I Read More
If you ask Chuck Schumer or Harry Reid, they’ll give you a cautious answer about their party’s prospects of attaining a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate next Tuesday. It’s possible and it would be great if it happened, they have said over and over, but it will by no means be a disappointment if Read More
To the surprise of absolutely no one, President Bush is set to embrace his general’s long-awaited report, which calls for a gradual Read More
Rob Portman announced his resignation as President Bush's budget director today, which set off speculation that the 51-year-old Ohioan is preparing to re-enter electoral politics. Portman served six-terms as the representative of the Cincinnati area before joining the administration in 2005, and according to the AP's write-up he made it clear today that he Read More
Easy victories can be dangerous to the politicians who achieve them, a lesson that Hillary Rodham Clinton may be learning as she seeks her party’s Presidential nomination. Coasting to re-election last fall has done her as much harm as good—because until now, she was never forced to confront her own equivocal positioning on the war Read More
For reasons of varying comprehensibility, nearly all of the U.S. Senate’s Republican minority voted on Monday to block consideration of a resolution voicing opposition to President Bush’s troop build-up in Iraq. Some did so out of solidarity over a procedural dispute with their partisan colleagues in the Senate—despite the fact that the resolution was authored Read More
The Democratic Senate leadership is going to be announced in a matter of minutes, and it's likely to be another good day for Chuck Schumer. Schumer told me last week that he would "likely" accept Harry Reid's request that he stay on as chair of the committee to elect Senate Democrats through 2008. --Jason Horowitz Read More
Continuing its tradition of always picking the statewide winner, New Jersey's Bergen County sided with Robert Menendez over Tom Kean for the U.S. Senate. The result from New Jersey's most populous county: Menendez 100,359 Kean: 88,460 -- Steve Kornacki
Family problems have plagued KT McFarland's campaign for months, so maybe it should come as no surprise that yet another family scandal has perhaps delivered the knockout blow to her weak campaign for U.S. Senate. "This past Saturday, my 16-year-old daughter, Camilla, was caught shoplifting from two stores in Suffolk County, NY. She was arrested, Read More
How Joe Lieberman Beat Himself If Joe Lieberman truly were the man he claims to be—independent, fearless, thoughtful and brave—he would be well on his way to a fourth term in the United States Senate. Instead, he faces an abrupt end to what was an admirable career. Mr. Lieberman was rejected by the Democratic voters Read More
