New York’s Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on Thursday’s Morning Joe to discuss his efforts in reining in the amount of corporate money spent on political campaigns.

Host Mika Brzezinski started things off by noting that Schumer’s colleagues in the National Republican Senatorial Committee “point out you are the number one recipient of Wall Street money in the Senate, and it’s funny you’re decrying the role of corporate money in the political process.”

The State of the Union address is a once-in-a-year opportunity for mockery for Jon Stewart. With the President going over his past successes and future plans, there was plenty to go over: The Osama Bin Laden opening, the large amounts of tax credits, and the bad joke that made the First Lady force an awkward smile.

It seems no one is fully satisfied with the deal that last month’s debt crisis finally carved out of Congress, with polls showing Americans feel Congress behaved like “spoiled children” and the deal with nothing short of “disgusting.” On tonight’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart took a closer look at the congressional “supercommittee” that is supposed to navigate the country out of this mess, and found the comic book heroes at least marginally underwhelming.

Because it’s impossible not to, much of the media pointed and laughed at the news that House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy used a clip from the Ben Affleck film The Town to inspire them to vote on the Boehner bill. Tonight, Jon Stewart wondered whether the ones who actually got any inspiration from the clip had actually seen the end of the film, because the analogy was not so flattering to the Tea Party.

As we reported yesterday, House Republicans were treated to a special presentation by Rep. Kevin McCarthy during a party meeting to figure out how to sort out the debt ceiling crisis, where members viewed a clip from Ben Affleck‘s The Town in an attempt to unite the party behind John Boehner‘s plan. The response was [...]

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on Morning Joe and expressed his disappointment with Speaker of the House John Boehner, despite still liking him personally. Given that Boehner wasn’t demonstrating “real leadership,” Schumer insisted that now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was putting forth a new plan that could hopefully get everyone’s agreement since it attempts to meet everyone’s criteria.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on Morning Joe to discuss how difficult the budget talks with Republicans have been since they keep “walking out” when things don’t go their way. Joe Scarborough suggested President Obama isn’t without blame either since he waited so long to get involved, yet Schumer responded that now Obama is anxious to make a big deal while the Republicans keep talking in circles.

Fox News is reporting that New Castle, Delaware police have contacted a 17 year-old high school girl regarding her possible Twitter contact with Rep. Anthony Weiner. The girl’s name has been withheld, but some blogs have referred to her by the pseudonym “Ethel.”

At this point, little is known beyond the fact that the girl was questioned for about half-an-hour. The girl’s Twitter history is now protected, but as the story emerged last week, was the subject of much speculation in the blogosphere.

Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds, just hours after Newt Gingrich demanded his political opponents not use his own words against Republicans, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is proudly leading the charge to do just that. Schumer spoke with reporters earlier today and cheerfully admitted, “it was refreshing to hear such candor from a top Republican” and vowed to not miss any opportunity to remind seniors about the danger of the GOP vision for Medicare.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is acting swiftly after intelligence recovered from Osama bin Laden‘s compound revealed a desire to attack America’s railways. Yesterday at a news conference Schumer proposed an Amtrak “no-ride list” to keep suspected terrorists off of America’s trains.

In a marked departure from all of the wild celebrating and political bickering that followed the death of Osama bin Laden, President Obama’s visit to New York today was a somber and reverent affair. He went to both a fire station and police station with Rudy Giuliani, New York’s mayor at the time of 9/11, and visited Ground Zero with Governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo of New Jersey and New York respectively, New York’s current Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. While there, the President laid a wreath where the Towers fell and held a moment of silence.

While last night’s anticlimactic government non-shutdown peeved more than a few in Congress and around Capitol Hill, Sen. Charles Schumer may have come up with the most comically derogatory metaphor for the other side: House Republicans, he griped yesterday, are a “flea, wagging a tail, wagging a dog.”

Republican Congressman Allen West appeared with Greta Van Susteren last night to discuss the possibility of a government shutdown. While West suggested there is enough blame to go around amongst politicians of both parties for the fiscal crisis we are in, he singled out some Senate Democrats as “definitely being obstructionist in this process.”

Jon Stewart doubted the Democratic party truly knew what they were up against in the budget battle with Republicans. Stewart’s disappointment with Democrats began with President Obama and now continued with the senators who apparently had a secret “big plan” that merely involved labeling the Tea Party as “extreme.”

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared with Christiane Amanpour and was asked about recent comments where he unintentionally revealed instructions to refer to the Tea Party as “extreme.” Schumer did not back down from the description, and explained further why he is not happy with the Tea Party’s influence in Washington.

Republican Senator Rand Paul appeared on Fox & Friends and said he is worried that President Obama’s decision to intervene in Libya without consulting Congress sets a “very bad precedent.” Paul declared it to be an “affront to the Constitution that we are not debating this in Congress.” Also interesting was his forceful response to Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer who referred to the Tea Party as “extreme.”

On Meet The Press, Chuck Todd, sitting in for David Gregory, asked Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer about his recent support of nuclear energy and whether in light of the horrific ongoing events in Japan his opinion has changed. Schumer however was not ready to back off from his past statements until we all see how the situation in Japan develops.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on State of the Union and accused Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner of pursuing a “reckless” path by allowing talks of a possible government shutdown to persist. With the Democrats and Republicans still in disagreement over how much should be cut from the federal budget, it seems like the battle over the budget is not going to be resolved easily and it won’t be pretty.

Last Sunday, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on CNN made headlines when he mistakenly referred to the “three branches of government” as the House, the Senate and the President, but left out the Judiciary. Today, Megyn Kelly explored why if Sarah Palin or Congresswoman Michele Bachmann made the same gaffe, it would have been headline news everywhere as opposed to the scant coverage Schumer received.

Politicians might think that Washington D.C. is the one place in the world where they are the celebrity, however star of Jersey Shore, Nicole “Snooki” Politzzi proved that entertainment figures will always draw a larger crowd than a politician. New York Democrat Senator Charles Schumer learned this after Snooki snubbed him at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Yet in Snooki’s defense, she probably had no clue who he was, or for that matter, even what a “senator” does.

Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on CNN‘s State of the Union to sound some alarm bells and warn Republicans that their threats regarding a government shutdown are similar to “playing with fire.” Furthermore, he even suggested a depression would be possible if the Republicans were not willing to compromise.

Senator Chuck Schumer appeared on Face the Nation to discuss the Republican effort to repeal healthcare reform. Convinced that the American people want Congress to focus on jobs and the economy, Schumer defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid‘s decision not to waste time bringing the measure up for a vote.

Perhaps all the talk of toning down heated political rhetoric has hit home with some in Congress, or at least has prompted an extra effort in reaching across the cultural aisle. Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer is probably one of the last members of Congress to be expected heaping praise upon Fox News personalities, but this afternoon he did just that to Shepard Smith for his coverage of the 9/11 responders’ bill last month, which he credited for helping the aid bill pass.

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley was having none of his colleague Sen. Chuck Schumer‘s attitude on the Senate floor today. Asked if he would yield to a question after speaking against the elimination of the Bush-era tax cuts, Grassley acceded, but not before chastising Schumer for being one of those “New Yorkers” who “think you can make us Midwesterners look bad.”

New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (R) walked out on a local television interview in Plattsburgh, New York on Friday evening after the anchor asked him whether his comments about Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand (D) were sexist. Paladino had called New York’s junior Senator “[Schumer's] little girl” on Thursday, in reference to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D).