Charles Schumer

Senator Chuck Schumer Wants To Ban 3D Printed Guns

Have you heard of 3D printing? Well, it could be the future of almost everything. Basically, engineers have managed to take the concept of two-dimensional printing, in which ink is vertically layered on horizontal paper, to the next level. A computer design enables a printer to weave together plas ... More >>

Sen. Schumer to Walmart: Please Stop Selling Assault Weapons

This seems like a move ripped right out of Bowling For Columbine.   As Vice President Joe Biden and his team of gun control policy thinkers finish up their legislative package this week, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has taken measures into his hand. According to the Daily News, the po ... More >>

Sen. Chuck Schumer Goes After the Laaaaasers

Who said the economy was at the top of our national priorities list? Who cares about Iran? The real problem in this country doesn't lie in our deficit or our debt; it's those damn laser pointers we use with our PowerPoints.Senator Chuck Schumer is laying his legislative foot down on the issue of ele ... More >>

As Whooping Cough Spreads, Schumer Demands Free Vaccinations

WebMD describes whooping cough as a "disease that causes very severe coughing that may last for months." It is a respiratory infection that can spread rapidly if untreated. And, in recent weeks, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced that cases have been popping up across the co ... More >>

Senator Chuck Schumer Calls on House to Pass the Violence Against Women Act with Key Provisions

Senator Chuck Schumer this morning called on the House to pass a bill called the "Violence Against Women Act," which he says literally saves women's lives. A measure to reauthorize the act was approved by the Senate on Thursday with broad bipartisan support, despite some objections from Republican ... More >>

Sen. Chuck Schumer Champions Push To Protect Privacy Of Smartphone Sexters

​Bad news, smart phone users: those penis private pics you snapped with your iPhone aren't as private as you'd probably hoped.Senator Chuck Schumer to the rescue.Schumer today announced that he's asked the Federal Trade Commission to launch an investigation into whether smart phone apps on Apple a ... More >>

City Secures Anti-Terror Funding, Will Support Surveillance Program in Downtown Manhattan

In the face of steep cuts, the city will receive millions in anti-terror funding, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand announced this morning. New York City has secured a total of $151,579,096 in Urban Areas Security Initiative Funding, which comes from the Federal Emergency Management Ag ... More >>

Sen. Chuck Schumer Pushes For Crackdown On Drugged Driving

In New York City, 357 drivers were arrested in 2011 for being under the influence of drugs -- up from 81 ten years prior. That's more than a 300 percent increase. That's why Sen. Chuck Schumer is making a funding push to crackdown on "drugged driving" through new on-site technologies that would id ... More >>

Senator Chuck Schumer to AT&T: Invite Us to Your Industry Meeting, Please

Appealing to his iPhone-addicted constituents, Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on AT&T to do something about the steep uptick in smartphone thefts in the city. You might be thinking: "What can this little ole cell phone provider do to fight crime in Gotham?" Well, our senator thinks the company can do ... More >>

Internet Week Kicks Off With Speech From New York Senator Chuck Schumer

Esther Zuckerman​During a question and answer session at Internet Week New York this morning, Senator Chuck Schumer quipped that he was of "the older generation." And even as Schumer looked forward in his keynote speech, which kicked off IWNY at its headquarters in the Metropolitan Pavilion, h ... More >>

Sen. Schumer, Christine Quinn Push Feds To Pressure Bank That Owns Shoddy Housing

​A consequence of our sucky economy: The city estimates that around 125,000 housing units will go into foreclosure over the next two years. In many cases, owners (including banks) are trying to unload these buildings, and while they wait, living conditions deteriorate drastically for tenants ... More >>

Senator Schumer Coaches Colleagues on Press Call; The Guardian To Expand Stateside

Chuck Schumer, media adviser​On Tuesday morning, a telling little bit of the relationship between high-ranking politicians and the press was exposed when New York Senator Chuck Schumer was caught chatting prematurely on a conference call about the budget process with his fellow lawmakers. Schu ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Hacked at TED, Just Like Chuck Schumer Said

​Earlier this week, New York senator Charles Schumer made public an open letter he sent to the owners of some of the internet's biggest websites -- like Twitter, Yahoo and Amazon -- urging them to stop using the HTTP web protocol in favor of HTTPS, which is more secure. On shared WiFi networks ... More >>

Senator Chuck Schumer is Terrified of Hackers

​New York Senator Charles Schumer has issued a call to arms today to the largest sites on the internet, including Twitter, Yahoo, and Amazon, urging them to stop using the HTTP web protocol in favor of HTTPS, "after reports that hackers are granted easy access to users' private information thr ... More >>

Wayne Barrett: Time for Something New

​Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978. He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor. I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973. But I was now inheriting a column that Mary Nichols, th ... More >>

Four Loko, Under Absurd Political Assault, Soon to Be Banned by FDA.

​Sen. Chuck Schumer already won the war against crazyjuice booze drink Four Loko in New York, as it's soon to be banned statewide. But what about the rest of America? In all fifty United States, no Four Loko is safe.

Steve Rattner's Book, Overhaul: the Cuomo and Schumer Revelations

​Steve Rattner, the financier and Democratic fundraiser who served in 2009 as President Obama's car czar, takes some guarded shots at New York's political elite in his yet-to-be-released book, Overhaul. He paints himself as a victim in the ongoing Securities & Exchange Commission investigati ... More >>

The Last Jelly Pool Party, Featuring "SECRET SPECIAL GUESTS!", Is Back On

Last chance to do this, for real this time. Pic by Sam Horine.​Yes, the final Pool Party of a remarkably tumultuous year has been saved, set for this Sunday, August 29, rescued after an ugly few days of Jelly and the Open Space Alliance trading crabby press releases. The dialogue is still crab ... More >>

Sen. Chuck Schumer Declares (Booze-Funded) War on Hipster Booze-Juice

​You've seen them in your local bodega, deli, or drug store. They sit there, those brightly-colored cans containing malt liquor, sugar, caffeine, and mystique, waiting for the young and not-sober-for-long masses waiting to pick them up and drain them down their thin, thirsty gizzards. Sparks. ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Trashes Chuck Schumer As He Crusades to Protect Wall Street Excess

​Politico reported today that Mayor Mike trashed his longtime buddy Chuck Schumer at an April 12 meeting in Mitch McConnell's Senate office in Washington. The attack on Schumer, who supports the financial reform bill now before the Senate, is part of the oddest Bloomberg campaign ... More >>

JELLY NYC Pool Parties Saved! (Again!)

The only thing missing here is Schumer. Illustration by M. Wartella.​The Department of Parks and Recreation let slip back in December that the embattled, endangered JELLY NYC Pool Parties had been given a reprieve by the city that had temporarily tried to shut them down. But, as Senator Chuck ... More >>

Barrett: Remembering When Chuck Schumer Was Fighting for Harold Ford -- in Tennessee (UPDATED)

​ See UPDATE after the jump "Harold Ford is a great candidate who knows how to handle himself," Chuck Schumer said in 2005. "We're very hopeful about his candidacy." Maybe a bit less hopeful today. The fine line between irony and hypocrisy is crossed every day in politics. But in ... More >>

Barrett: How Will the Ballot Police Protect Kirsten Gillibrand from the Harold Ford Invasion?

Kirsten's protector is ever vigilant​Thank God for the ballot police. But for them, five or six elected Democrats would've already committed the crime of running against Kirsten Gillibrand. Now we have the man Harry Reid obviously mistook for Barack Obama, Harold Ford Jr., illegally panhandl ... More >>

Today's Battle of Political Outrages: Sarah Palin's Hat vs. Chuck Schumer's Bitch

​Which of the today's internet political shrieks wins the battle of Depressing Indicator of Our Discourse of the Day -- Sarah Palin's un-McCain hat, or the continuing uproar over Chuck Schumer saying "bitch" on a plane? The answer may surprise you!

Chuck Schumer Says "Bitch," Apologizes; Should Have Stepped, Thrown

​Chuck Schumer's really getting into his gangsta lean. Having spit in defense of "the Jelly concerts" in Williamsburg, he is today reported to have called a flight attendant a bitch. He was even sitting next to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at the time, that's how hard he rolls. His charge was ... More >>

Ungrateful Jelly NYC Pool Party Partisans Manage a Paltry 200 Emails to Senator Chuck Schumer's Office

His arms are getting tired of holding you up, people. Photo via via Amanda M Hatfield's photostream​Even as the press release went out today announcing that Brooklyn native, erstwhile two-wheeler, and local music-lover Chuck Schumer was "pressing officials to iron out remaining concerns to see ... More >>

Help Save Jelly NYC's Pool Parties

We loved these things so much we had M. Wartella make this graphic that you're probably in somewhere.​The last days of summer at Jelly NYC's Pool Parties brought the curious sight of New York Senior Senator Chuck Schumer gladhanding hipsters and swaying, like Jay-Z, to the sinuous sounds of Gr ... More >>

Senator Charles Schumer Speaks: "I happened to pass by the Jelly concerts when I was riding my bike through Williamsburg"

Photo of Schumer rallying at Girl Talk via Amanda M Hatfield's photostream​FYI, write this man in support, not anger. Says U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, via a statement his office just sent over: "I happened to pass by the Jelly concerts when I was riding my bike through Williamsburg and wa ... More >>

New York's Representatives in D.C. Stand United for Staten Island Toll Relief

Never fear, Staten Island -- your votes are still important. New York's elected representatives in Washington are muscling through H.R. 3960, the Residential and Commuter Toll Fairness Act of 2009, which finds that some citizens are "forced to endure significant or undue toll burdens," and thereby ... More >>

FBI, Homeland Security Warn Cops After Queens Terror Raids

​Though Chuck Schumer insists the Monday federal raids on three Queens homes suspected of involvement in terrorist activities were "preventative" and that there is "no imminent threat," the FBI and Homeland Security are warning police departments to be on the lookout for explosive materials, a ... More >>

Photos: Girl Talk's Williamsburg Waterfront Pool Party with Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa

Sam Horine​So, yeah-- 8,500 people, three bands, a broken stage, and a Chuck Schumer sighting. Just another day at Williamsburg's East River Park, where things got well and truly out of hand for Greg Gillis' Girl Talk, a band pretty much made for the mayhem, nudity, and bare feet that are the ... More >>

Poor People Fishing Leads Senators to Call for More, Better Warnings

Yesterday the Daily News told us about the jolly, impoverished fishermen who cast for possibly poisonous bluefish, bass and flounder off the piers of the outer boroughs, for eating and sometimes for distribution to beggars ("They come here with a plastic bag and hope that people put a fish in it"). ... More >>

Barrett: Schumer Protects Gillibrand from a Primary Challenge Citing His Record On Such Matters -- So We Checked That Record

Image from Howie Klein's "Down With Tyranny" blog (downwithtyranny.blogspot.com)As my colleague Tom Robbins explained last month, Chuck Schumer has been flexing his  considerable muscle to make sure that no elected Democrat challenges Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the accidental incumbent, in a 2 ... More >>

Schumer Accepts Non-Apology from Hayseed Legislator

Charles Schumer has issued a statement about that Arkansas state senator who called him "that Jew." Schumer's statement is, "Apology accepted." Actually it wasn't much of an apology -- what Republican lawmaker Kim Hendren (pictured left) said was, "I shouldn't have gotten into this Jewish business ... More >>

Chuck Schumer Avenges Humanity Against Urban Wildlife!

At last, one of our elected representatives is fighting back against nature, which as we previously reported is at war with New York, sending cows, wallaroos, feral parrots and other agents to smite us. Chuck Schumer strikes on two fronts: first, he has put in a bill requiring airports to report bir ... More >>

Sitting target: Schumer blasts Madoff with elephant gun

MSNBC captured Schumer's spiel today about the Madoff scandal. Today's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Bernie Madoff scandal was a perfect chance for pols to grab at the golden ring of video clips, and it looks as if the winner was...New York's own Chuck Schumer! If you missed the dog- ... More >>

Schumer Tells Gillibrand She Will "Evolve" On Guns

We said last post that we'd leave the Gillibrand press conference when Chuck Schumer took the podium, but as usual Schumer forces us to pay attention. He just referred to Gillibrand's record on guns (as everyone points out, she has a 100 percent rating from the NRA) and said that, as some conservati ... More >>

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A veteran progressive legislator faces the Schumer steamroller

Families to Rally At Schumer's Office for Child Citizen Protection Act

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Letters

While Schumer Slept

For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.

The John Roberts Sideshow

Hillary walks tightrope! Schumer frolics in spotlight!

Letters

Analyze This!

Italians Iced From Federal Judicial Appointments

Ashcroft's New Ally

Senator Schumer Pushes to Make Covert Surveillance Easier

Schumer's Identity Politics

Civil Rights Advocates Fight Compromise on Election Reform

The Louima Prosecutor

Pataki and D'Amato's Pick Is Unqualified and Tainted

Will Schumer Stand Up?

Only He Can Prevent a Hack Bush-Pataki Appointment