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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during a press conference on the Inflation Reduction Act, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Schumer sets weekend showdown for Democrats’ tax and spending bill in Senate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Natural gas production is part of the deal that Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer reached with Sen. Joe Manchin III. The West Virginia Democrat will deliver the long-sought Mountain Valley Pipeline to his home state if the Inflation Reduction Act is approved. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Manchin wrests favors from Democrats

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing for Shalanda Young, President Biden's nominee for Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 in Washington. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via AP)

Senate begins make-or-break week for Biden’s domestic, climate agendas as Manchin courts Sinema

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The House has approved a significant expansion of health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

Veterans refuse to decamp from Capitol Hill until Senate passes Republican-blocked toxins bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., listens during a news conference following a closed-door caucus lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Aides to far-left House members arrested for climate change sit-in at Schumer’s office

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., at right, pauses as they speak to reporters about the political battle for confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, following a closed-door Democratic policy meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Democrats turn to marijuana after failure on Biden’s agenda

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., before an event in the Indian Treaty Room in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House Campus in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Joe Manchin rejects Democrats’ climate, energy, tax proposals

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., takes a question during a news conference following a closed-door policy lunch, at the Capitol in Washington, on May 24, 2022. The Biden administration foresees unnecessary deaths if lawmakers don’t approve billions of dollars more to brace for the pandemic’s next wave. Yet the push to provide the money is in limbo in Congress. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senate majority leader tests positive for COVID-19

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer blasts ‘radicalized’ GOP ahead of vote on domestic terrorism bill

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., walks through a construction tunnel at the Capitol on his way to welcome visiting Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, in Washington, Thursday, May 19, 2022. The two nations are moving quickly to try to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate passes $40B Ukraine aid package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., tells reporters he is furious that the Supreme Court could overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 3, 2022. Schumer called the news &quot;a dark and disturbing day for America.&quot; (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer tees up a vote on longshot effort to codify Roe v. Wade into law

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks during the Democratic strategy weekly meeting, Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Schumer accuses conservative Supreme Court justices of lying about their abortion stance

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., meets with reporters asking about President Joe Biden's proposed $5.8 trillion budget, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Democrats eye tying emergency Ukraine aid to stalled $10B coronavirus package

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, speaks during the Utah Republican Party 2016 nominating convention Saturday, April 23, 2016, in Salt Lake City. Hatch, who became the longest-serving Republican senator in history as he represented Utah for more than four decades, died Saturday, April 23, 2022, at age 88. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

A fierce conservative with allies across the aisle, Hatch leaves legacy of bipartisan achievement

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, arrives to speak to reporters about the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a Democratic strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer poised to pass Biden’s $1.5 trillion bipartisan budget after cutting deal with GOP

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, arrives to speak to reporters about the Russian invasion of Ukraine following a Democratic strategy meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate approves $1.5 trillion spending bill with Ukraine aid, earmarks

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speaks to the media after Senate Democrats met privately with President Joe Biden, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Schumer punts on election law, but vows vote on blowing up filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this image from video, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks on the Senate floor at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. During his 23 years in the Senate, Mr. Schumer has voted more than 500 times to sustain a filibuster, according to data compiled by GovTrack. (Senate Television via AP) ** FILE **

Dems have voted for more filibusters than Republicans as power devolves into divisive partisan tool

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., emerges from a Democratic Caucus meeting as the Senate continues to grapple with end-of-year tasks at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schumer vows Build Back Better votes in the new year, wants to put senators on the record

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Republican candidate for New York City mayor Curtis Sliwa speaks during a debate with Eric Adams, Brooklyn borough president and Democratic candidate for New York City mayor at the ABC 7 studios, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, in New York. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Sliwa vs. Schumer: Curtis Sliwa mulls challenge to Schumer in 2022

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times