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Anti-immigration advocate calls Rubio ‘Schumer’s waterboy’ in Tea Party call
The head of a conservative group seeking to limit immigration reform denigrated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) while saying he should be the focus of efforts to curtail the recent legislation proposed by Rubio and the bipartisan “Gang of 8.” “The question, the way it would have to be presented to…
Grassley flips out: ‘I didn’t say that!’ about using bombing to delay immigration reform
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday became irate and yelled at Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) during a Senate hearing at the suggestion that he had used last week’s Boston Marathon bombing to try and delay immigration reform. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Friday, Grassley had said that knowing…
Chuck Schumer: Senate close to finalizing ‘pathway to citizenship’ for immigrants
Eight US senators crafting an overhaul of immigration policy are on the verge of finalizing a deal that could bring 11 million undocumented migrants out of the shadows, one of the lawmakers said Thursday. Senator Chuck Schumer, the leading Democrat in the bipartisan Gang of Eight, said the plan, which…
Neil Munro of The Daily Caller interrupts Chuck Schumer
Neil Munro, a reporter for The Daily Caller, interrupted Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday during a press conference to unveil a new bipartisan immigration proposal. During the press conference, Munro asked the Democratic senator if Americans should worry that “importing tens of millions of low-skill laborers” would reduce wages…
Sen. Schumer: NRA ‘just dumb’ to oppose all restrictions on guns
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday mocked the notion that gun laws were unconstitutional because of the Second Amendment. “To not talk about guns when it comes to gun violence is to not talk about smoking when it comes to lung cancer,” he said. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”…
CBS host: GOP ‘more reluctant to talk about’ gun control than raising taxes
On CBS’ Face the Nation, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who wrote the Brady Act and authored the original assault weapons ban in the House of Representatives, claimed that the recent shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut could be the “tipping point” for new gun legislation. Host Bob Schieffer noted…
5 Questions For: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on the potential death of the American dream
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is the garrulous senior Senator who’s rarely been known to shy away from the media. True to his reputation, he visited the PPL Media Space and took questions from the crowd that gathered. Raw Story: What do you think is the biggest issue that Democrats need…
Bill would make it a crime to knowingly mislead voters about elections
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday began discussing a bill that would make it a federal crime to knowingly mislead voters as to the time and place of a public election — an effort Democrats say will help crack down on voter intimidation and disenfranchisement due to dirty political tricks.…
McCain rips Schumer for being on TV too much
Media darling Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is blasting Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for spending too much time in front of the television cameras. In a Wednesday interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, the Arizona senator accused Schumer of holding hearings on Arizona’s controversial immigration law just to get…
SB 1070 author says infants can get IDs to prove they are ‘legal’
The author of a controversial anti-immigration bill in Arizona said on Tuesday that young children could simply get state-issued identification to prove they are in the U.S. legally. Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, former Arizona state Senate president Russell Pearce (R) defended the state’s SB 1070 law, which requires…
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