Charles Schumer

Birds fly across the White House grounds on Dec. 10. Tipsters have reported drone sightings over New Jersey and other states recently. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Just how tight was the battle for control of the House? Well, consider that if just three additional races had broken in Democrats’ favor, we would have had to wait for nearly a month on vote counting in California to determine which party had won the majority. And if that had happened, we might still [...]The post At the Races: Full House appeared first on Roll Call.

The tight margins in Congress will likely complicate matters for President-elect Donald Trump's agenda.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is seen in the Capitol on Sept. 18.

Airplanes fly past the Washington Monument during the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association DC Flyover on May 11.

Howard Lutnick, left, with President-elect Donald Trump in Michigan in October.

Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who is retiring at the end of this Congress, said the farm bill text released Monday is "my vision."

Sen. Marco Rubio is calling hypocrisy after he claims Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer is icing out Pennsylvania Senator-elect Dave McCormick from the Senate orientation later this week since his Democratic opponent still hasn't conceded.

For Schumer, the only mystery remaining as of Wednesday morning was the size of the minority he would lead – and the early signs were that it would be smaller than expected.

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Members of Congress have been scrutinizing the budget for the Secret Service in the aftermath of a shooting at a Trump rally in July in Butler, Pa.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., arrives for a House Democratic Caucus meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on July 23.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves a news conference in the Capitol on Thursday.

People take pictures of the Wall Street bull in New York City in August. A proposal that advanced out of a Senate committee this summer would curb stock trading among members of Congress, but some fear it won’t see further movement.

A reporter prepares a question for President Joe Biden before he spoke with reporters Monday on the South Lawn of the White House about the latest assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. He announced Thursday that the Senate will vote again on a legislative package that would establish a statutory right to IVF.

Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, talks with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on the third night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 17.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seen after Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on July 30, is looking ahead to his next act.

This week, tens of thousands of people are expected to travel to Chicago for the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where 5,000 delegates and alternates will gather to approve a party platform, and where Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov....

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. From concerts to campaign cash, 2024 is shaping up as a test of the crypto industry’s political strength. On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Charles [...]The post At the Races: Crypto campaigning appeared first on Roll Call.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters in the Capitol on June 28.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said the vote was a step in "the most important update in decades to federal laws to protecting kids on the internet."

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said social media “can do a lot of good things, but it also can lead to serious health risks that we cannot ignore.”

President Joe Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., arrive for the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 bill signing on the South Lawn of the White House on Aug. 9, 2022.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., announced he plans to resign effective Aug. 20, after months of Democratic hand-wringing over his scandalous federal trial and recent conviction.

Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar speaks to reporters as she arrives for the Senate Democrats’ lunch in the Capitol.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez plans to resign after being convicted on federal corruption charges.

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a news conference at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president on Tuesday.

By The Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris flew to her first battleground state Wisconsin after locking up enough support from Democratic delegates to earn the party’s nomination. Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Harris on Tuesday, capping off their party’s swift embrace of her 2024 candidacy. Meanwhile, Kimberly Cheatle, the director of [...]

By The Associated Press Vice President Kamala Harris flew to her first battleground state Wisconsin after locking up enough support from Democratic delegates to earn the party’s nomination. Democratic leaders Charles Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Harris on Tuesday, capping off their party’s swift embrace of her 2024 candidacy. Meanwhile, Kimberly Cheatle, the director of [...]

House and Senate Democratic leaders are set to meet with Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday as she lobbies for their endorsements for the party's presidential nomination.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks to reporters in the Senate subway after a vote in January.

In separate meetings last week, the Democratic leaders pointed Biden to polls suggesting his candidacy would damage the party’s House and Senate candidates

Murphy said that if Menendez refuses to step down, he will call on the Senate to vote to expel him.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer was among a group of high-profile politicians who called for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign Tuesday after the New Jersey Democrat’s conviction on corruption charges, ramping up pressure on the embattled politician...

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer is calling on Sen. Robert Menendez to resign after a jury found the New Jersey Democrat guilty of accepting bribes and other corruption-related charges.

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., exits Manhattan federal court Tuesday in New York City after a jury found him guilty on all 16 counts in a sweeping corruption case.

The Senate on Wednesday kicked off consideration of its long-stalled spending “minibus” to provide fiscal 2024 funding for transportation, housing, agriculture, military construction and veterans programs with amendment votes. By late afternoon the Senate adopted 27 amendments, including two touching on culture war issues that politically vulnerable Democrats joined with Republicans to support. Provisions now […] The post Senate adopts gun provision among amendments to spending bill appeared first on Roll Call.

Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said Tuesday that Senate leaders had reached an agreement paving the way for floor consideration of its three-bill spending “minibus,” a breakthrough after weeks of stalemate. With the agreement in place, the Senate can start floor consideration of the package that would combine the fiscal 2024 Military Construction-VA, Agriculture, and Transportation-HUD appropriations bills. The […] The post Senate reaches deal to start voting on appropriations package appeared first on Roll Call.