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%...
guarantees-that uncharted-waters immigration
This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.
new-york airplane two
Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.
immigration administration pounds
Unfortunately, the administration's plan is an ounce of cure for a pound of problems.
simple debt lines
The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.
thinking gun tipping
I think we could be at a tipping point
escaping ought standard
The president, again, ought to have some nonpolitical person look into this and see what should be done. The standard shouldn't just be escaping indictment.
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The president called for a bipartisan commission on Social Security in his State of the Union address, which I recommended he do last year -- but if he were serious about it, he would have left Social Security privatization out of his budget.
doubts nomination questions slam
There are too many questions still to be answered, too many doubts still to be alleviated to say that this nomination is a slam dunk,
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When was the last time that a covert agent's name was leaked, jeopardizing that agent's life, the life of that agent's network, of informants and the security of this country? ... This is not just another ordinary leak.
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We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come.
forced klan
When the Klan has been forced to unmask, they have been broken.
chinese delicate feeling float period pressured reasonable sensitive stop
We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.
information
We want to see how much information is forthcoming between now and the 7th.
totally worry
We worry that if it's there, it's not totally dead.