About every two weeks, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) keeps an important dinner date with five of his colleagues, and they’re not the five most senior members of the Senate or even his closest advisers on his new job. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) emerges from a lunch with fellow Democrats on Capitol Hill on Jan. 24. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post)“I’m worried about the Senate coming apart,” said Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), who faces a multimillion-dollar reelection campaign next year. Schumer has another top goal, as well: to keep Trump at his already historically low approval ratings for a new president. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is surrounded by his leadership team and journalists at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 31.

Source: Washington Post February 04, 2017 16:30 UTC