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Tag: Chuck Schumer

Senate Negotiators Race to Craft Border Deal Framework by Sunday
16Dec By adminNo Comments
World

Senate Negotiators Race to Craft Border Deal Framework by Sunday

WASHINGTON—Senate negotiators were working to meet a self-imposed deadline of Sunday evening to hammer out a framework for border-security measures that Republicans have demanded as a condition of passing Democrats’ $110.5 billion aid package containing new funding for Ukraine.The aid package is seen by President Biden and much of Congress as crucial to keeping Russia from gaining a critical advantage almost two years into Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Lawmakers have been at an impasse for months, after GOP lawmakers said that any efforts to help Ukraine must also include provisions to stop a historic level of illegal migration at the U.S. southern border.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know How Gas Prices Work
24Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know How Gas Prices Work

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and 22 Democratic senators recently wrote to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Lina Khan calling for an investigation into the proposed mergers between Exxon Mobil and Pioneer Natural Resources and Chevron and Hess. The letter argues that these mergers will enable “anticompetitive coordination in the industry” and raise U.S. gasoline prices. The letter, however, is based on dubious economic and legal logic and spurious historical analysis. It’s a mischaracterization of how the oil-and-gas industry operates. A fair assessment of the proposed mergers and the fossil-fuel market doesn’t reveal a firm legal and economic basis to initiate antitrust enforcement proceedings against these deals. If the senators really want a competitive energy market that suppl...
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Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Other Leaders Pay Tribute To Dianne Feinstein
29Sep By adminNo Comments
Politics

Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Other Leaders Pay Tribute To Dianne Feinstein

Earlier this morning, we lost a giant in the Senate. Senator Dianne Feinstein was one of the most amazing people who ever graced the Senate, who ever graced the country.She had so many amazing, wonderful qualities wrapped up in one incredible human being: she was smart, she was strong, she was brave, she was compassionate.But maybe the trait that stood out most of all was her amazing integrity. Her integrity was a diamond. Her integrity shone like a beacon across the Senate and across the country for all to see and hopefully emulate. ... Our nation will be forever thankful to Senator Feinstein for the accomplishments she fought for.I, too, am personally indebted to Dianne, not just as a colleague which of course I am in so many ways as a colleague, but as a friend, and as a father of two ...
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Chuck Schumer Blinks Amid GOP Blockade Of Military Nominations
20Sep By adminNo Comments
Politics

Chuck Schumer Blinks Amid GOP Blockade Of Military Nominations

WASHINGTON ― Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday moved forward with confirming three senior military nominees who were blocked by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) amid his monthslong hold on more than 300 military nominations, a small break in the logjam that has frustrated senior Pentagon officials and lawmakers in both parties.The three officials set to be confirmed are Gen. Eric Smith for Marine Corps commandant, Randy George for chief of staff of the Army, and C.Q. Brown for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hundreds of other lower-ranking military officials are still waiting for Senate approval as Tuberville singlehandedly blocks them over his objections to the Pentagon’s policy on travel for abortion care.In remarks on the Senate floor, Schumer said it’s lo...
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Chuck Schumer hosts tech companies Google, Meta, Microsoft, and X over AI regulations including Chat GPT
13Sep By adminNo Comments
Technology

Chuck Schumer hosts tech companies Google, Meta, Microsoft, and X over AI regulations including Chat GPT

Washington CNN  —  Some of the most influential voices in the tech industry are set to meet with federal lawmakers Wednesday morning as the US Senate prepares to draw up legislation regulating the fast-moving artificial intelligence industry. Among those attending the in-person event will be the CEOs of Anthropic, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir and X, the company formerly known as Twitter. The guest list also includes Bill Gates, the former CEO of Microsoft, and Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, along with leading officials from the entertainment industry, civil rights groups and labor organizations. Wednesday’s meeting and its expected all-star cast marks the first of ...
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Chuck Schumer to host AI forum with Zuckerberg and Musk among attendees
3Sep By adminNo Comments
Technology

Chuck Schumer to host AI forum with Zuckerberg and Musk among attendees

CNN  —  More than a half-dozen leading tech CEOs will be among those attending a highly anticipated artificial intelligence event hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer next month, according to the senator’s office. The September 13 event will involve Google CEO Sundar Pichai and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt; Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang; and Elon Musk, CEO of X, the company formerly known as Twitter. It is the first of nine sessions Schumer has said will begin this fall to discuss the hardest questions that regulations on AI will seek to address, including how to protect workers, national security and copyright...
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