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Speaker Mike Johnson got a big reality check from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who took to the Senate floor to reject Johnson’s attempt to ransom Israel aid for tax cuts for billionaires. Schumer said: Bipartisan cooperation will be the only way anything gets to the president’s desk. So I’m …

Members of the hard-right Freedom Caucus said in July that they would not support a stopgap funding bill to keep the government running in the fall. “We should not fear a government shutdown,” Representative Bob Good, Republican of Virginia, said at a news conference last month. But it remains to …

In a darkened hotel ballroom in San Jose, Calif., last November, the most powerful players in the semiconductor industry received a familiar sales pitch. Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, appeared by video message to urge the industry titans at the Semiconductor Industry Association’s annual awards dinner to work together …

Majority Leader Schumer and Democratic Leader Jeffries made it clear that Democrats aren’t budging on their demand for a clean debt limit bill Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries said in a joint statement on the upcoming debt limit as provided to PoliticusUSA: We do not have the luxury of waiting …

Republicans have been funneling all manner of issues to judges they know are sympathetic and unreasonable; for example, there’s a 5th district court in northern Texas where sanity reliably goes to die. This is where the Trump judge overturned the abortion pill’s approval from the FDA, an federal organization over …

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took to the House floor not to unveil the details of his debt ceiling bill but to plead with Biden and Schumer to negotiate with him. Video of McCarthy pleading for negotiations: Kevin McCarthy is on the House floor begging for President Biden to notice him …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told House Republicans that their gift to big oil energy bill is dead on arrival. Video: Majority Leader Schumer said on the Senate floor: Today, House Republicans are rolling out a partisan, dead-on-arrival, and unserious proposal for addressing America’s energy needs that they have laughably …

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is blaming Kevin McCarthy and Tucker Carlson and demanding that Fox News pull the plug on Carlson’s 1/6 disinformation campaign. Video of Schumer: Transcript of Schumer’s remarks: Last night, millions of Americans tuned into one of the most shameful hours we have ever seen on …

In a dear colleague letter to his fellow senators, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unloaded on Tucker Carlson and Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Schumer wrote in a letter provided to PoliticusUSA:Like many of you, I was surprised to hear reports that Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to allow Fox News’ Tucker Carlson …

President Biden will get his 100th judge confirmed by the Senate, which is more judges than McConnell and Trump added to the bench at this point in Trump’s term. NBC News reported: Gina Méndez-Miró a district court judge in Puerto Rico; the nomination passed a key test vote that indicates …