Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumeris an American politician, the senior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in 1998, he defeated three-term Republican incumbent Al D'Amato by a margin of 55%–44%. Schumer was re-elected in 2004 by a margin of 71%–24% and in 2010 by a margin of 66%–33%...
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While this nomination did not warrant an attempt to block the nominee on the floor of the Senate, the next one might.
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While the Port of Hong Kong is screening everything, we are screening next to nothing.
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You can look at price gouging on a state level - that's not the problem. The problem is big oil companies and distribution
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We need to catch our breath in every way. I don't think the one week changes the dynamic at all.
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The president's going to have to stand up to both the Defense Department and to the hard right,
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The president now should take his time. The president should do it right: slowly, deliberately, carefully, with real consultation and real consensus.
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The president needs to decide whether he wants to take the lead in fixing Social Security or whether he wants to take the lead in, in fact, destroying the most successful social program in history.
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The president is in a dilemma because the hard right is demanding someone who most of America wouldn't want.
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Two of the biggest problems that upstate New York faced in this bill were LIHEAP and the MILC program, and now both are in the bill with almost everything we wanted.
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Financial incentives brought people back to places, brought businesses back to places and were a lifeline for small businesses that would have gone under,
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This nomination certainly raises the stakes in making sure that the American people and the Senate know Judge Roberts' views fully before he assumes perhaps the second most powerful position in the United States.
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Today's revelation that the government listened in on thousands of phone conversations without getting a warrant is shocking and has greatly influenced my vote. Today's revelation makes it very clear that we have to be very careful. Very careful.
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Why am I up here supporting this bill? Because I think we are in a new era . . . where every one of us has to give a little bit. We heard the president speak, we were unified yesterday, we must keep that unity.
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We as a party are going to be the broom that sweeps things clean.