Chuck Schumer

Handsome, dedicated, and driven, Micah is the disabled with cerebral palsy, Jewish progressive, openly bisexual, who represents a swath of Manhattan's Upper East Side.

WASHINGTON — A senior senator is asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate reported instances of debt collection firms asking people to...

Al Franken met with Senate Democrats Tuesday afternoon to "get plugged in" to the Democratic caucus and to give them an update on Minnesota's conteste...

Christina Romer, at a speech at the Brookings Institution Monday afternoon, appeared to give support to critics of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

Senator Charles Schumer has privately expressed concerns directly to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel about Chas Freeman, the Obama administrat...

A little less than a year before President Obama reportedly sent a secret letter to Russian President Dmitri A. Medvedev, offering to forgo an anti-mi...

Nancy Pelosi isn't the only Democrat unhappy with President Barack Obama's Iraq withdrawal plan. Democratic Sens. Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer said ...

A chief judge for the ninth circuit in Orange County, Florida -- an epicenter of the foreclosure crisis -- ruled Wednesday that mortgage providers mus...

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) has a message for Republican governors hemming and hawing over whether to accept the stimulus money Uncle Sam is mailing t...

US SEN. Kirsten Gilli brand is nervously telling friends that Gov. Paterson's sharp drop in popularity may lead to her defeat in next year's all-but-c...

In times as uncertain as ours, yesterday's heretical view can rapidly turn into today's conventional wisdom. Take the question of nationalizing America's insolvent banks. Just six months ago, raising the idea would have immediately branded you as an old school Marxist. Now, it's being suggested by none other than Alan Greenspan. Last Sunday, Lindsey Graham said he wouldn't take nationalizing the banks off the table. On Wednesday, Greenspan, the high priest of laissez-faire capitalism, said it "may be necessary." And on Friday, Chuck Schumer, who just five days earlier had said he "would not be for nationalizing," told HuffPost he was actually in favor of "good nationalization," wherein the government takes over zombie banks, cleans house, then resells them to the private sector. Who knows, by next week Ayn Rand might pop up from the grave and start speaking Swedish.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) believes that failed "zombie" banks, no matter what their size, should be taken over by the government, which should the...

In a gloomy segment about the financial sector on ABC'S This Week, two self-avowed fiscal conservatives said that the U.S. Government should at least ...

WASHINGTON — A top Democratic senator predicts that an economic stimulus bill will pass Congress by the end of the coming week because the stake...

The old New Yorker in me believes Gillibrand would best serve the people by shooting Canadian geese over airports rather than repairing our Bush-broken nation.

Two of the highest-profile Democrats in Congress argued on Sunday that when it comes to the economic stimulus package, spending projects will do more ...

NEW YORK — Senator-designate Kirsten Gillibrand pledged Sunday to combat gun violence while protecting hunters' rights, saying "there's enormous...

Chuck Schumer, the brash New York senator, helped drive the Democrats' recent rise to power with what he says is a critical insight about the American...

That Schumer should appear in downtown Brooklyn, media in tow, claiming that Governor Carey doesn't qualify for the naming honors should qualify our senior Senator for a one-way ticket out of his home borough.

In electoral politics we want to avoid the rich and famous in favor of the modest but qualified. But we make it impossible for anyone but the rich and famous to get the jobs and then keep them.

If you have not heard of Mary Schapiro, it is because she has not been much of a player, much less a crusader, in the struggle for reform. She is the kind of Democratic appointment that allows Wall Street to breathe a huge sigh of relief.

I'm not suggesting any criminal activity. I'm not suggesting you pocket the proceeds of a sale of the NY senate seat. Just have the candidate deposit it right in the treasury.

If Caroline can cough up around $70 million, she gets to play, but if she was a poor gal named Smith or Gonzalez with an impressive resume and a noble spirit, she'd get her little a** booted to the curb.