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If passed and signed into law, New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says a pending bill regarding Chinese currency would send a message to China that it can no longer continue to get away with “economic murder” against the U.S.  (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has proposed a 5 percent tax increase on millionaires to pay for President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill, arguing that even the tea party supports his idea. (more)

New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer wants “Law and Order” to be filmed in his home state again. (more)

Sen. Chuck Schumer said he doesn’t think his fellow New York Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner had anything to do with the picture of a man’s erect penis underneath gray boxer-briefs sent from Weiner’s official Twitter account Friday night. (more)

In what was largely a symbolic vote, the Senate on Wednesday defeated the House Republican budget proposal crafted by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan to cut trillions in federal spending. (more)

Take the James E. Clyburn Pedestrian Overpass. Or the The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. (more)

Five executives from America’s leading oil companies were marched in front of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday morning for a public scolding, and told to defend industry tax breaks while Americans are being charged $4 for a gallon of gas. (more)

A House bill that could drastically overhaul the nation’s gun control laws and strengthen federal power over states’ handling of individuals’ background checks is expected to be introduced today by New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

Is everything we know about the budget negotiations coming from the mouths of Democrats and also wrong? (more)

Sen. Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, already embarrassed himself once recently by barking out talking points to his fellow lawmakers on a conference call while reporters listened in by accident. (more)

Reporters recently caught Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer red-handed, on what he thought was a private conference call, instructing his Senate colleagues to call Republicans “extreme” for H.R. 1, the continuing resolution House Republicans passed that cuts $61 billion from this fiscal year’s record $1.6 trillion deficit. The usage of such charged language is not surprising in our hyper-partisan political environment, but it would make more sense in reference to the Democratic Senate’s “extreme” disconnect on this issue, not only with the public at large but also with its own base. (more)

Republican leaders wasted little time playing up reports Tuesday that New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the third-ranking Senate Democrat, told other members of his party that the caucus had urged him to start calling Republican budget cut proposals “extreme” during public battle between the parties of government spending. (more)

Lady Gaga has ended her exclusive relationship with Target. She has decided to walk away from a lucrative business arrangement because of her political agenda. Gaga, and some liberal special interest groups, are drawing attention to their political beliefs by waging war on one of America’s most recognized and respected businesses. (more)

Get collared years ago on a bogus drug charge because the oregano in your back pocket looked like was a bag of weed? Or maybe a judge back in 2006 dropped those charges because you were able to provide proof for that Adderall prescription? Under proposed legislation, it will not matter if you were innocent all along or even proven innocent by a court of law. (more)

After some relatively quiet years, the national gun debate locked and loaded for another round last week after President Obama hinted his desire to reform the current background check system. Plenty has happened in the past few years with both sides entrenched in deep partisan arguments. To prepare readers for the onslaught of over-exaggerated political rhetoric, ambitious policies and former victims crying before the camera, The Daily Caller is launching a multi-part guide for readers not entirely up to snuff. Click here for Part I.
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Top ranking Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer doubled down on his call for House Republican Speaker John Boehner to ditch the Tea Party after Democrats helped pass a short-term federal funding bill that would have failed without their support because of defections within the GOP. (more)

Top-ranking Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer is urging Republican House Speaker John Boehner to ditch the Tea Party and join a coalition that includes Democrats to work around conservative lawmakers on spending cuts. (more)

Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking House Democrat, said Wednesday that if the parties cannot find a compromise on how to fund the government by the March 4 deadline that a government shutdown would be “possible.” (more)

Senate Democrat leaders warned against government shutdown again Thursday, and said there is no way they would accept the Republican proposal of cutting $100 billion from President Obama’s 2011 budget request. (more)

Setting the stage for another showdown over government spending, top Senate Democrats rejected the House Republicans’ new budget proposal Thursday, but said they were ruling out a government shutdown. (more)