Senate Dems select new leadership lineup

He’s promoted other Democrats from his spot on the party’s Senate Democratic leadership team and become a more rounded political figure.

After Schumer was voted the senate minority leader on Wednesday, he told reporters that he plans to work with Trump when possible.

Senate Democrats Wednesday approved a leadership team that features both old party faithful and some new faces that could represent the party’s future. And he enraged Democrats by refusing to let the Senate consider Obama’s nomination of federal judge Merrick Garland to fill a Supreme Court vacancy that occurred last February, which paid dividends when Trump won.

Schumer’s facility with the media led to the Washington cliche that the most risky place in the city was between him and a camera, but in recent years he has refashioned his image and spent less time in television green rooms.

The move allowed Sen. Roger Wicker of MS, who was term-limited. The senator’s starting point for his new post is the belief that, as he put it, “the real action to transform America is not going to take place on Capitol Hill”. Schumer may spend more time talking than exercising, one Republican, Texas Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

The Nov. 8 elections, when a third of the Senate’s 100 seats were up for grabs, resulted in a split of 52 Republicans and 48 Democrats in the upper chamber.

That’s the opposite of the House, where both parties’ leadership elections have been more theatrical.

And even though their differences are wide spanning a divide from Schumer’s Brooklyn to Trump’s fifth avenue, they’ve often bonded over their love of NY and their quest to make a deal.

That wing includes Sens. Charles Schumer of NY, who is widely expected to be elected Senate minority leader to replace outgoing Sen. But Schumer and Sanders are not the only ones to gain more responsibility. Ellison, D-Minn., is co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “It’s the direction the party needs to go”. Mitch McConnell for another term as Senate Majority Leader.

West Virginia Rep. Joe Manchin, whom was rumored to be considering a party switch, will serve as vice chair of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.

Schumer, 65, was born and raised in Brooklyn and is an undergraduate and law degree from Harvard. He’s shown a willingness to work across the aisle, but he’s also exhibited a fierce partisan streak during his tenure in the House of Representatives and Senate. “The good: he’s a deal-maker”.

Get free real-time news alerts from the New York City Patch. Harry Reid announced his retirement last March. “It’s our job to do the oversight and scrutiny and review that’s appropriate”, he said. “And I have a good relationship with him”. “I think the vast majority of Americans would be in favor of doing something reasonable with people who are not delinquents and criminals, who have been here a long time“.