Schumer works to clear field for Gillibrand
While some Democrats are trying to discourage former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr., from challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary, it’s clear that the appointee’s biggest defender...
View ArticleWhite House weighs in on Ford challenge to Gillibrand
Add the White House to the list of entities trying to stop former Rep. Harold Ford from challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs today offered the firmest...
View ArticleCongress paves way for donation to FDR presidential library
Scholars and the public will get a glimpse at papers from former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under legislation that passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The measure, which now...
View ArticleGuest blog: Note to Harold Ford — NY politics is a contact sport
New York on the Potomac is pleased to present guest opinions from across the political spectrum on issues of interest to our online community. Today, we present a Guest Blog written by ex-Rep. Martin...
View ArticleNew York in the thick of health care `War Between the States’
New York Democrats in Congress are at the barricades of a new “war between the states” over health care reform legislation. The battle pits “do-gooder states” (as one wag in Sen. Chuck Schumer’s office...
View ArticleSchumer blasts Supreme Court campaign finance ruling
The Supreme Court’s bomb of an opinion on campaign finance was barely an hour old before New York’s Sen. Charles Schumer went before reporters to promise he’d do everything in his power to blunt its...
View ArticleNew York once again target of populist ire, this time over Bernanke
New Yorkers are going to have to get used to it. The 2010 campaign is going to sound like one long New York-bashing session. Wall Street is the bete noire of populists and faux populists of both...
View ArticleSchumer and Hatch make unlikely duo pushing payroll tax forgiveness
Sen. Orrin Hatch, the Republican and lay Mormon minister from Utah, is an unabashed social conservative who opposes abortion and backs gun rights. His polar opposite just might be Sen. Charles E....
View ArticleSchumer sponsored college tuition tax credit gets extended as part of Senate...
Sen. Chuck Schumer wants 1.4 million New Yorkers to know that they are eligible for $2.5 billion in college tuition tax credits — and this time, he wants them to actually file for it. Back in 2009,...
View Article
