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...Israel’s ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, hit back, branding Schumer’s comments “counterproductive”, while Netanyahu’s Likud party said that Schumer should “respect” Israel’s government....
...Schumer, the most senior Jewish elected official in Washington, urged Israel to hold new elections to remove Netanyahu from office....
...“We said to the Speaker: get it done,” Schumer added....
...“This is a good first step,” Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, said after Thursday’s vote....
...He declined on Wednesday morning to give his view of Schumer’s proposal. “We will see what the Senate does,” he told reporters....
...Under Schumer’s latest proposal, funding for the first set would expire on March 1, and for the second on March 8....
...Chuck Schumer, leader of the Democratic majority in the upper chamber of Congress, released the text of the compromise legislation on Sunday after weeks of fraught negotiations over security assistance to...
...Schumer said the US should use its leverage over Israel to force it to adopt a more moderate course....
...Schumer said that the Chinese side “said they would deliver the message to the Iranians”....
...The Senate would stay in session until the debt ceiling bill was approved, Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, said....
...“It is so good for this country that both parties have come together at last to avoid default,” Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, said in a statement to the chamber before voting began...
...The letter is addressed to both Senate Majority and Minority Leaders Charles Schumer and Mitch McConnell, as well as leading senators such as Republican Patrick Toomey and Democrat Ron Wyden, both of whom...
...The result cemented the Democrats’ better than expected performance in November’s midterm elections and strengthened Schumer’s hand in the upper chamber of Congress....
...Schumer’s comments were echoed by Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, who said at an event in San Francisco that she was “not deterred at all”....
...Charles Schwab and BNY Mellon are also due to report results before the market opens. US economic data: It’s a relatively quiet day on the economic front....
...Biden said in a statement that he had held a call with Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives and Senate majority leader, respectively, to brief them on...
...Charles Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader who Reid handpicked to succeed him, paid tribute to the Nevada senator as “one of the most amazing individuals I have ever met”....
...Democratic Senate majority leader Charles Schumer said on Tuesday that the proposal to increase the debt limit by $2.5tn would fund the US government for at least another year, delaying any further debt...
...Charles Schumer, the Senate majority leader, had initially suggested the upper chamber of Congress would begin poring over the bill this week after the House of Representatives passed it last month....
...Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader....
...Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, praised Charles Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, and McConnell for working in “good faith . . . to prevent a default”....
...“I said we needed to pass a bill to address the debt limit by the end of the week, and that is exactly what we did,” said Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat....
...Bob Dole, the former Republican senator, once noted that the “most dangerous place in Washington is between Charles Schumer and a television camera”....
...Democratic Senate majority leader Charles Schumer said the proposal to increase the debt limit would fund the US government for at least another year. 4....
...Charles Schwab and BNY Mellon are also due to report results before US markets open....
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