Chuck Schumer took so much heat in March when they passed a clean CR. And he's so worried about AOC challenging him and losing control of his Senate Democratic conference that he's trying to show. I mean, he even updated his glasses to show that he is hip and, you know, feisty now. But it's absurd. The whole thing is performative, Lawler said.
Lawler, who represents New York's 17th Congressional District, which covers Rockland and Putnam counties and parts of Westchester and Dutchess counties along the lower Hudson Valley, and chairs the Rockland County Republican Party, uploaded the statement to his reelection campaign's page on October 2. He opened it with a sweeping appeal to those who value freedom and civility, describing a nation that has "lost sight of a simple truth - we are all Americans, yes, but we are all human beings, created in God's image."
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) got into a heated debate in the hallways of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday with his fellow New Yorker, Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). Lawler waited for Jeffries outside of a meeting room and pressed him to sign on to a one-year extension of Obamacare subsidies, which expire under the current GOP funding bill that the Democrats have blocked. The tense exchange was shared online by several Congressional reporters who recorded it.
CNN on Friday admitted that a technical issue was the cause of an awkward on-air exchange between anchor John Berman and Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). The day before, Lawler appeared on CNN to discuss Congress's ongoing struggle to pass a new spending bill. At the time of writing, Congress was just a few days away from triggering a government shutdown.
