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March 22 (UPI) -- The Senate swore in new leadership for Congressional law enforcement on Monday following a shakeup in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Lt. Gen. Karen Gibson, 56, will lead the department as Senate sergeant-at-arms, joined by deputy sergeant-at-arms Kelly Fado and Jennifer Hemingway as chief of staff. "I'm so proud that leadership team I announced for Senate sergeant-at-arms is officially assuming their roles today," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer wrote on Twitter. "This is the first time in history that the leadership team will be comprised entirely of women." Gibson, who served...

Denouncing the white privilege from which they've benefited their entire lives, white Democrat leaders announced today they would be resigning from Congress to allow more diverse voices to be heard. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Joe Kennedy III, Eric Swalwell, Richard Blumenthal, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, and dozens of others formally turned in their resignations today in order to combat the prevalence of white privilege in our country. Elizabeth Warren will remain so as to give Native Americans a voice. "We must make space for people of color to be heard," said Senator Chuck Schumer, who had donned a...

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D-Delaware) says there's no conflict between the Second Amendment and banning individuals from owning certain weapons or limiting gun magazine capacity. He says the president must lead and the fight must be taken directly to members of Congress.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) - The driver charged in a deadly three-car accident on Chapman Highway Saturday night now also faces an immigration violation. Franco Cambrany Francisco-Eduardo, was charged with No Drivers License and No Proof of Financial Responsibility. His booking record shows he is being held for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Officers responded to the accident in the 4700 block of Chapman Highway at Gwinfield Drive around 6:30 p.m. Saturday. According to the investigation, a Chevrolet pickup truck was traveling north on Chapman Highway when it crossed into the southbound lanes of traffic striking a Honda Civic that was...

Hollywood celebrities are urging people to gather in Washington, DC, Thursday to protest the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Alicia Keys, Michael Stipe, and other celebrities are leading the event, dubbed “Bravery Is Contagious.” Party Majority PAC is organizing the protest, reports The Hill.

During his speech in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump attacked Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), describing him as a “bad leader” who is “leading the Democrats to doom.” Discussing the opposition from Democrats to his plans to build a border wall, Trump said, “Unfortunately, Democrats in Congress have no leadership, they are rudderless.” “Senator Schumer is a bad leader. I’ve known him a long time, Senator Schumer is a bad leader, not a natural leader at all. He works hard to study leadership … Well if you have to study leadership you’ve got problems,” Trump said. “His policies are hurting...

Deborah Coughlin, the president of New York City’s elite Metropolitan Republican Club that recently wrongly and forcibly removed all Trump supporters from its board, broke federal campaign finance laws in order to donate thousands of dollars to Democratic New York Senator Chuck Schumer in 2003. Schumer has been one of the most anti-Trump Senators since President Donald J. Trump took office in January. In a story that GotNews broke and that the New York Post has now picked up, a deeper dive into the financials surrounding the scandal-plagued board of New York City’s Metropolitan Republican Club has produced more troubling...

During a Sunday morning appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer decried the intent of many Senate Republicans to prevent President Barack Obama from appointing the successor to deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., exhorted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to stimulate the economy before November through some form of quantitative easing or other monetary policy, which Bernanke said could create jobs. “Despite two false starts, we’re having a much rougher time than we ever imagined getting unemployment down,” Schumer told the Senate Banking Committee. “So get to work, Mr. Chairman.” Schumer said Bernanke needed to stimulate the economy because Congress refuses — “maybe after November we will,” he opined.“We will act in an apolitical, non-partisan manner to do what is necessary for the economy,” Bernanke replied. “We have said...

(CNSNews.com) - Senate Democrats are calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate possible price-fixing of gasoline by U.S. refineries because “recent reports,” according to the senators, suggest the refiners are trimming supply to keep prices high. But a federal report from November shows that refinery stockpiles started to decline in 2008, if not earlier. At a press conference on Tuesday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced that they had sent a letter that day to the FTC, “to request the Commission begin an investigation into potential price fixing of gasoline by U.S. refiners.” “Recent...

If you listen to Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), you’d think they don’t sound like friends of any Tea Party group. In fact, they are. USA Today quoted Reid: "[N]ow the Tea Party among others, they are the biggest push, is trying to push its extreme social agenda, issues that have nothing to do with funding the bill." Schumer has called Tea Partiers “the extreme element of his [House Speaker John Boehner's] party.” Schumer was also caught with his political pants down when he explained Democrats should paint Tea Partiers as “extremists” and a phone mic was...

Six years ago, Sen. Charles E. Schumer urged company site selectors to take a fresh look at upstate New York. He said Buffalo and Rochester were among the best places in the country to build a factory. What would those private sector decision- makers think now of the campaign that Schumer and the rest of the state’s Democratic notables are making to muscle a national company into making a deal with its labor union? more at: http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/07/05/1104029/politicians-wade-into-private.html

Insiders say any potential successor to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid who appeared to be anything less than loyal to him would risk turning off the senators whose votes they'd need if Reid were to lose. Chuck Schumer invited Harry Reid to spend Monday morning with him in Brooklyn, where some of Schumer’s well-heeled friends opened their checkbooks to help the Senate majority leader’s struggling reelection bid. Democratic Whip Dick Durbin has invited Reid to join him next week in Chicago, where he’ll connect the Nevada Democrat with Windy City business leaders who’ll pour even more money into Reid’s campaign....

Senator Charles E. Schumer, the New York Democrat, is calling on the Obama administration to block the use of stimulus funds for a utility-scale wind farm in West Texas that would make use of turbines manufactured largely in China.

NATIONAL EVANGELICALS PRESIDENT SAYS PRO-AMNESTY SUPPORT WAS UNANIMOUS Rev. Leith Anderson, president of the NAE, was invited by Sen. Shumer (D-N.Y.) to testify in favor of the Senate immigration chairman's push to create amnesty legislation this fall. Sen. Shumer asked Rev. Anderson if many of his colleagues agree with his support for legalizing 12-20 million illegal aliens and increasing the legal immigration far higher than the 1 million a year current level (the two key components of "comprehensive immigration reform"). Rev. Anderson answered that there was no dissent in adopting the pro-amnesty resolution on the 75-member NAE board of directors....

The FDIC has just announced that a consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms would be buying IndyMac. IndyMac was an independent "bridge bank" spun off of Countrywide Mortgage in the late 90s.  IndyMac acted as a "bridge bank" to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. New York Democrat Charles Shumer precipitated the fall of IndyMac in May of 2008 by releasing "inside" information that the mortgage company was in dire financial straits. This disclosure created the initial "bank run" that is credited by many economists as the initial trigger that prompted the current mortgage crisis. The FDIC took over...

Oil From ANWR Would Help a Lot In his June 14 letter, Charles Schumer writes that oil production from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge "would reduce U.S. dependence on foreign imports by less than two percent." What? The production potential from the 2,000 acre coastal plain of ANWR is estimated to be one million barrels per day. We currently import almost 10 million barrels per day, so ANWR production could reduce our foreign dependence by more than 11%. Moreover, we get about two million BPD from Canada and about one million from Mexico, so the one million barrels from ANWR...

Daily oil production on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, an area which Congress originally designated for oil exploration when it set up the refuge, is estimated by the Energy Information Administration (Dept. of Energy) to be able to produce approximately 1, 000,000 barrels of crude oil per day. With current imports of foreign oil running over 12,000,000 barrels per day (EIA chart), production of one million barrels of U.S. oil would be an important first step to energy independence. But this is how Senator Charles Schumer dismissed the benefits of ANWR in an April 28 press...

New York Sen. Charles Schumer said Thursday that he worries that if a Dubai company takes ownership of U.S. ports, terrorists might alter what he described as port "manifolds" - an apparent reference to shipping manifests. Explaining that the port's owner would be involved in inspecting shipments, Schumer told radio host Don Imus. "They're involved just like any other company in making sure what's on the manifold is [what's] in the container." The New York Democrat-turned-port expert confused his shipping terminology a second time, even after Imus tried to set him straight: SCHUMER: If you're a terrorist and you want...

WASHINGTON - At first it looked like Schumer had been "Schumed." Schumer, of course, is the senior senator from New York. "Schumed" is the verb Capitol Hill staffers devised several years ago in honor of the press-friendly Democrat. Loosely defined, it's "the act of taking credit for the work of a colleague."