Sen. Chuck Schumer is poised to be the Senate majority leader
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 21st, 2010 4:38 am by HL
Sen. Chuck Schumer is poised to be the Senate majority leader
On Mother’s Day, Chuck Schumer delivered two commencement speeches upstate, flew back to Brooklyn to eat dinner with his wife, mother and daughters, and at 7:38 p.m. toted a briefcase into his midtown office for the political ritual known as the Sunday press conference. Picking his way through a…
Chuck Schumer – Senate – United States – Government – Legislative Branch
Stocks plummet as Germany gets tough on financial speculators
A German crackdown on financial speculators threw global markets into a tailspin Thursday, sparking the largest losses on Wall Street in a year, infuriating other European powers as they try to stabilize the ailing euro and raising questions about the ability of world leaders to coordinate their…
Germany – Business – Investing – Stocks and Bonds – Travel and Tourism
Dennis C. Blair to resign as director of national intelligence
Dennis C. Blair will resign Friday as the nation’s intelligence director after a tenure marred by the recent failures of U.S. spy agencies to detect terrorist plots and by political missteps that undermined his standing with the White House.
Dennis C. Blair – Intelligence – United States – Arts – September 11 attacks
