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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The continuation of this program is vital to our economic stability,
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The CDC is doing great work by sending our experts to other countries to help with SARS outbreaks there,
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I'm going to do everything I can to try and craft a compromise that avoids a lengthy trial,
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everyone seemed to emerge from the hearing with a different view of what he actually said.
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Everyone forgets there was a real view that downtown could just be hollowed out and nobody would want to be there ever again, ... And we decided that we had to move quickly...to give people hope so they don't get stuck in their head I got to go somewhere else.
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Judge Roberts has a clear obligation to make his views known fully and completely at the hearings and we look forward to them.
It is not enough to say that you will be fair,
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It just makes the burden on him to answer the questions even greater,
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It's hard to believe that this administration would be so out of touch with the American people's national security concerns that it would use its first ever veto to save this troubling Dubai ports deal.
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This is the best thing that can be done, short of new laws ... given the deadlock in Congress.
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Nothing about Kathleen Willey is in the two articles of impeachment and if we were to go beyond the confines of the articles of impeachment and start bringing before us anybody who might have an allegation, before it had been checked and rechecked, we would make a mockery of the process,
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Because of that risk and its enormous consequences for generations of Americans, I cannot vote yes, ... I must reluctantly cast my vote against confirmation.
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The problem once again is fairness and reciprocity.
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The vote is a shot across the bow in terms of the Justice Department and how it conducts itself, in terms of upcoming Supreme Court nominations, and the push-and-pull within the Bush administration. Will it be bipartisan or will it be pulled to the right?