Charles Schumer News

MONTOUR FALLS -- U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is looking into federal funding to provide experts who can advise Southern Tier landowners about contracts for natural gas exploration and drilling rights.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, will hold a town hall meeting at 10 a.m. today at the Schuyler County Human Services Building, 323 Owego St.

In the court of public opinion, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' best defense is memory failure. Again.

Throughout congressional testimony and in responding to various investigations, Gonzales has said he can't remember key events or didn't know what was happening at the Justice Department under his watch.

In perhaps the most memorable example, he ducked 71 questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee in April 2007 by citing a faulty memory or saying he didn't know the answer. His responses evoked cringes from fellow Republicans, eye-rolling from Democrats and hoots from protesters at the hearing.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer is taking on a sticky issue - how to help upstate New York increase maple syrup production and sales.

The U.S. Bush administration and local officials are locked in an ideological struggle over how best to relieve airport congestion in New York, observers say.

As New York's 361-member convention delegation gathered to hear Senator Clinton address their breakfast meeting this morning, there was a palpable sense of what-might-have-been. "Hillary for President" placards ...

DENVER Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Sen. Charles Schumer predicted Monday that "the drilling issue has peaked," convinced that voters will not punish Democrats this November for the high ...

The battle for control of the Senate ranks second behind the presidential race in what promises to be an historic, agenda-setting national election.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton made good on her promise to unite behind Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy for president, interrupting a traditional roll call of the states to suggest Obama be nominated by acclamation.

At times during Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech Tuesday night, the New York Democrats cheered so loud the delegates couldn't even hear parts of her speech.

Albany International Airport is about to see nearly $1 million worth of new equipment coming in.

Before the same old faces from the Empire State, Sen. HIllary Clinton just delivered the windup line as a response to McCain's ad saying she got passed over for VP because she'd told the truth about Barack ...

WASHINGTON - There will be plenty of New Yorkers involved in the drama surrounding the Democratic National Convention that begins today in Denver.

When Sen. Charles Schumer, of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, lists the November races that will swell his party's majority, New Hampshire is one of the first he brags ...

Reflections are seen in windows near an IndyMac Bank sign as hundreds of customers arrive to wait in line to get into an IndyMac Bank, open for the first time since the July 11 federal government takeover of ...

California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown won't be investigating Sen. Charles E. Schumer for damning comments the New York Democrat made about Pasadena-based IndyMac Bancorp days before its collapse.

The state Attorney General's Office said Tuesday it is reviewing a letter from former IndyMac Bank employees who blame Sen.

New York Sen. Charles Schumer (SHOO'-mer) will speak at the Democratic National Convention, highlighting his role in trying to win more seats in the U.S. Senate.

Schumer chairs the Senate Democrats' campaign efforts, reprising his successful effort in 2006, when his party picked up enough seats to hold a slim majority. Schumer hopes to strengthen that edge this year.

Party officials say the senator will speak the night of Aug. 27 after the roll call and will be flanked by some of those he is working to propel to the U.S. Senate.

The Democratic National Convention Committee and the Obama for America campaign today announced that Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Charles E. Schumer and top Senate challengers will address ...

USA Today and Sen. Chuck Schumer debate the auctioning of runway slots today. USA Today writes : The same airlines excoriating the sale of slots in New York are perfectly happy to buy them when it's to their ...