“Chuck Schumer” on The Daily Caller

The American left has finally jumped the shark. Last week, one of its leaders, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), introduced legislation to construct a regulatory Berlin Wall to keep Americans from renouncing their U.S. citizenship. (more)

Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook co-founder whose strained relationship with Mark Zuckerberg was popularized by the 2010 Aaron Szorkin film, “The Social Network,” offered his congratulations to his former partner on Facebook’s IPO Friday. (more)

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain defended his state’s tough immigration law and blasted New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer for grandstanding on the issue Tuesday. (more)

Senator Charles Schumer is calling on the government to crack down on cellphone scammers who trick people into paying for mobile services they may not want. (more)

SEATTLE — Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday. (more)

New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer launched an online petition this week to encourage the Air Force to reunite a military working dog with its former partner. (more)

As former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stepped up his criticism Tuesday of President Obama‘s equivocal response to Iran’s aggressive moves against Israel, leading Democrats ramped up their rhetoric as they struggled to defend the president. (more)

Alan Dershowitz is on a crusade against Media Matters. (more)

“O’Reilly Factor” producer Jesse Watters went to Capitol Hill to ask members of Congress about the Super Bowl in Indianapolis this weekend. (more)

Sen. Charles Schumer’s brother-in-law was quietly nominated this month to a federal judgeship in New Jersey — a move that has some in the Garden State crying political foul, The Post has learned. (more)

New York Democrat Chuck Schumer was the U.S. senator who decided that a group of tea partiers couldn’t meet in a Capitol hearing room with lawmakers on Thursday, new video shows. (more)

New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer predicted Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act will be repealed, comparing legalizing same-sex marriage to the fight for racial equality. (more)

In an effort to keep corporate money out of politics, Senate Democrats have proposed a constitutional amendment that would grant Congress the power to regulate the “raising and spending of money for federal political campaigns” and “allow states to regulate such spending at their level.” (more)

Senate Democrats can’t pass Obama’s jobs bill in one swoop, so who’s to blame? The tea party, apparently. (more)

Senate Democrats will attempt to pass a millionaire surtax this week because it provides a campaign trail alternative to President Barack Obama’s unpopular tax proposal. (more)

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Daily Caller that he guarantees President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan will lower the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate if it becomes law. (more)

President Obama wants tax increases on the wealthy, regardless of whether the Democrats’ proposed millionaire tax becomes law, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday. (more)

Rep. Austin Scott of Georgia, the president of the freshman House Republican class, is pressing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats to pass a budget, arguing that they “couldn’t run a hot dog stand this way.” (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will meet with top Senate Democrats at the White House Thursday afternoon to discuss his jobs bill. (more)

Senate Democratic leaders tweaked President Obama’s American Jobs Act Wednesday in an effort to shore up support in their caucus, but as of now they lack at least one critical vote from Connecticut independent Sen. Joe Lieberman. (more)